DC employment agency bonds.
$1,500 flat. Five minutes.
A DC employment agency files a $50,000 surety bond with the Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection (DLCP) for its employment-services license. Ours is $1,500 flat — 3% of the bond amount, identical for every agency. The application is five minutes.
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Three steps. One sitting.
Employment agency license bonds are simple. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Your business details and an effective date. That is the application — no financials, no credit check section on this bond.
Pay & e-sign
Fixed-amount license bonds like this often issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with DLCP
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with your employment-services license application. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
The whole pricing page.
$50,000 bond × 3% = $1,500, one-time per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
What it is and who needs it.
What the employment agency bond actually covers
The District licenses employment agencies through the Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection (DLCP), and conditions the employment-services license on a surety bond. The bond is a consumer-protection guarantee standing behind how an agency handles job seekers and the fees they pay.
The standard bond is $50,000. DLCP’s rules set a higher $100,000 bond for higher-volume, higher-fee agencies — generally where the average fee charged a job seeker is $2,000 or more and the agency contracts with 100 or more job seekers a year. This page is the $50,000 tier; if your agency falls into the higher tier, tell us and we’ll issue the $100,000 bond instead.
It is a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the District (the obligee), with job seekers as the protected parties. It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety.
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Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond doesn’t have one.
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$1,500 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.