How much does an LLC cost in Wyoming?
$100 to file, then $60 a year to keep. Below: the exact deadlines, what happens if you miss them, and the costs Wyoming charges that the comparison tables leave out.
WY Wyoming state filing fees — US only
Fees compiled August 27, 2026 · state detail verified August 26, 2026
To form
$100
one-off
To keep
$60
per year
First year
$160
23 of 51 cheapest
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What you pay, and when
| You file with | Wyoming Secretary of State, Business Division |
|---|---|
| The document | Articles of Organization |
| Filing fee | $100 |
| Processing | Online filings are typically processed within a few business days. |
| Recurring filing | Annual Report / License Tax |
| Recurring fee | $60 · Annual |
| Deadline | The first day of your anniversary month — the month you formed in, every year. Wyoming does not use a single statewide date, so your deadline is personal to your LLC. |
| If you are late | File more than 60 days after the due date and the Secretary of State administratively dissolves the LLC. Reinstatement means paying a fee, filing every missed report, and clearing all outstanding license tax. |
| Registered agent | A Wyoming registered agent with a physical in-state address is required. Non-residents must buy this service, typically $50–$200 a year. |
| State income tax | Wyoming has no personal income tax and no corporate income tax, so the state takes nothing from LLC profit. Your federal self-employment tax and federal income tax are unaffected. |
The cost over time
The filing fee is the number everyone compares. It is almost never the number that matters — you pay it once, and then you pay the recurring fee for as long as the company exists.
| If you keep it for | Wyoming | Cheapest state (Arizona) | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 year | $160 | $50 | +$110 |
| 3 years | $280 | $50 | +$230 |
| 5 years | $400 | $50 | +$350 |
| 10 years | $700 | $50 | +$650 |
State fees only. Excludes registered agent, formation services, publication where required, and local licences.
Where Wyoming sits nationally
Wyoming ranks 23 of 51 on first-year cost and 31 of 51 on ongoing cost, against a national median first year of $175. The cheapest state is Arizona at $50; the most expensive is Massachusetts at $1,000.
| State | Filing | Per year | Year 1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | $130 | $25 | $155 |
| Louisiana | $125 | $35 | $160 |
| Wyoming you are here | $100 | $60 | $160 |
| Georgia | $110 | $60 | $170 |
| New Jersey | $100 | $75 | $175 |
Should you form in Wyoming?
Genuinely cheap and genuinely private if you actually live in Wyoming. If you do not, the "Wyoming LLC" that is marketed so heavily online is usually a way to pay Wyoming's fees on top of your own state's, not instead of them.
What the comparison tables miss
The $60 is a minimum, not a flat fee
Wyoming's annual license tax is the greater of $60 or $0.0002 per dollar of assets located and employed in Wyoming. Any LLC with $300,000 or less in Wyoming assets pays the $60 minimum, which covers almost every freelancer and small operator. Above that it scales — a detail routinely omitted from "Wyoming is $60 a year" comparisons.
Your deadline is your anniversary month, not a fixed date
Most states pick one day and apply it to everyone. Wyoming ties the deadline to when you formed, so there is no shared date to remember and no general reminder in circulation. This is a common way people quietly fall out of good standing.
Sixty days late means dissolved, not fined
Wyoming does not run up escalating penalties the way Delaware or Florida do. It dissolves the company. That is cheaper if you catch it and much worse if you do not, because a dissolved LLC has no liability shield during the period it was dissolved.
Online filing adds a card fee
Paying online adds 2.4% of the tax due, minimum $1 — so the $60 minimum is really about $61.44. Trivial in isolation, but it is why the number on your card statement never quite matches the number in the comparison tables.
The privacy Wyoming is sold on is narrower than the marketing
Wyoming does not list members or managers in the public formation record, which is genuine and is the basis of an entire industry of "anonymous Wyoming LLC" offerings. But the registered agent is public, the annual report carries a signature, any bank will require full beneficial-ownership disclosure before opening an account, and federal beneficial-ownership reporting applies regardless of which state you filed in. Wyoming buys you privacy from casual public searches. It does not buy you privacy from anyone with a legal reason to look, and it is worth being clear about which of those you were actually paying for.
Costs this page does not include
- Registered agent — typically $50–$300 a year if you do not act as your own.
- Formation services — $0–$300 one-off. You can file directly with the state yourself.
- Local business licences — many cities and counties require their own, separately from the state.
- An EIN — free from the IRS. Anyone charging for one is charging for a ten-minute form.
- Foreign registration in every other state where you actually do business.
An LLC does not reduce your federal tax
Worth restating on every one of these pages, because so much of the marketing implies otherwise. A single-member LLC is a disregarded entity federally: the same Schedule C, the same self-employment tax, an identical return to being a sole proprietor. What it buys is liability protection, which may well be worth the fees — but that is a different thing from a tax saving.
The election that actually reduces tax is S-corp status, which is separate from being an LLC and generally only pays off above roughly $80,000 of profit. You can model that with the S-corp vs sole proprietor calculator, and see what Wyoming leaves you with using the take-home pay calculator.
Sources
Fees change, sometimes mid-year. Everything here was verified August 26, 2026, but confirm the current figure with the Wyoming Secretary of State, Business Division before you file. This is a comparison tool, not a quote, and it is not legal or tax advice.