What New Jersey costs today
Forming an LLC in New Jersey costs $100 to file online. Counting that filing fee plus one year of the state's recurring charges, meaning the annualized report and any minimum entity-level tax, a first year comes to $175. After year one New Jersey has $75 a year in recurring state charges, annualized. See what New Jersey actually requires each year, including what the filing is called and when it is first due. Full New Jersey LLC cost breakdown.
Measured on first-year cost alone, 25 of these 49 states are cheaper than New Jersey, 24 cost more. Cost is only one input. Forming outside the state where you actually operate usually means registering as a foreign LLC at home as well, so you pay both states. Each comparison below works through that trade for one specific pair.
All 49 comparisons, cheapest first
The difference column is that state's first-year minimum minus New Jersey's $175.
Each first-year figure is that state's online filing fee plus one year of its recurring charges: the report annualized over its cycle, any minimum entity-level tax, and any publication cost the state publishes. It is not a prediction of your own first year. Seven states file only every second year, and several do not require a first report until year two, so check the state's own deadline. Registered agent service is excluded throughout, being a commercial charge rather than a state one. A state showing no recurring cost may still owe an entity-level tax above that state's threshold. Arizona, Nebraska and New York additionally require a newspaper notice when an LLC is formed, and no state publishes the full cost of one. In Arizona the notice is needed only where the LLC's statutory agent has a street address outside Maricopa and Pima Counties, the counties where the state currently posts it online for free.
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Edmond Hui · Founder, MyStateLLC
Edmond Hui is a software engineer and serial entrepreneur based in New York who has founded multiple online businesses across e-commerce, media, and information publishing. Before transitioning into tech, he spent years as a commercial real estate professional closing deals totaling over 100,000 square feet, giving him firsthand experience with business formation and entity structuring. He built MyStateLLC to provide the free, state-specific LLC guidance he wished existed when forming his own companies.