HI employment agency bonds.
$275. Five minutes.
Hawaii requires every commercial employment agency that collects fees from applicants to keep a $5,000 bond on file under HRS 373-4. At a flat 3% that lands below our floor, so you pay our $275 minimum — and the application is five minutes with no credit check.
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Three steps. One sitting.
License bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit check section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
Pay & e-sign
License bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with the Director
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations alongside your employment agency license. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
The whole pricing page.
$5,000 bond × 3% = $150, below our $275 minimum — so the premium is $275 per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
A Hawaii employment agency bond is an applicant-protection guarantee. If you run an agency that charges job-seekers a fee, the state wants a financial backstop that you'll follow the employment agency law and return any fees you took illegally or by mistake.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the State of Hawaii (the obligee), with fee-paying applicants as the protected parties. If an agency violates HRS chapter 373 or fails to refund fees it shouldn't have collected, the harmed applicant can recover against the bond.
The bond must stay in force the whole time you're licensed. Let it lapse and your license is at risk — so we track it and notify you 60 and 30 days out, keeping your $5,000 filing continuous.
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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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If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
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$275 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.