About Bond Cost Sheet
Radif Partners reads the statutes, agency pages and federal regulations that set how large a surety bond must be: notary commissions, motor vehicle dealer licenses, contractor licenses, bonded vehicle titles, freight broker registration, ERISA plans and federal construction contracts. Each required amount on this site links to the official page where it was read, with the date. Premiums are shown as documented estimates, never as quotes. The site sells no bond, works with no agency and asks for no contact details.
The gap this site fills
Type "surety bond cost" into a search engine and almost every page belongs to a bond agency. The price it shows is a national range of one to fifteen percent, the calculator asks for an e-mail address or a phone number before it gives an answer, and the amount your state requires is left for you to find. Several of those pages still print bond amounts that states changed in 2024, 2025 or 2026, because nobody rereads the statute once the page ranks.
A national range of 1 to 15 percent says little about your own bond, and a figure printed before the legislature changed it says even less. This site reads the required amount on the statute or the agency page of each state, links the exact line, flags the 2024 to 2026 changes, and shows at once the premium range that published rate grids give for your credit score, with no form.
Who publishes it
The site is published by Radif Partners, a company that builds calculators on public rules and public data. It is not a surety, a bond agency, an insurance producer, a law firm or a referral service. It sells no bond, sends no lead to anyone, receives no commission and carries no affiliate link.
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What we rely on
36 state rules for notary, auto dealer, contractor license and title bonds, each read on the statute, the Secretary of State, the licensing board or the DMV and quoted on the state pages; the federal rules for freight brokers (49 CFR 387.307), ERISA plans (Department of Labor Field Assistance Bulletin 2008-04), federal construction (FAR 28.102) and bid guarantees (FAR 28.101-2). Premiums come from rate grids that bond agencies publish, combined into a range for each credit tier and always labeled as estimates.
What the site leaves out
Rates filed by each surety with state insurance departments, which could not be read in bulk; states whose amount we could not verify on an official page; and any judgment on a surety, an agency or your chance of approval. The method page lists every rule and limit; the editorial policy explains corrections.
Contact
contact@bondcostsheet.com, for corrections and new bond amounts. We answer questions about a figure or a source, not about your own bond application.