Before a professional employer organization contracts with a client company in Hawaii, it must post a surety bond under HRS 373L-3, filed with the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. The amount is based on your prior year’s total payroll — we issue it at a flat 3% with no credit check.
















No underwriting queue for the standard PEO bond — enter your amount, pay, and file with the Department. Here is the whole thing:
Your business details, the bond amount your payroll requires, and the effective date — that is the entire application.
No credit check and no waiting — the executed bond is generated as soon as you pay. Larger amounts may get a quick review.
Submit the executed bond with your PEO registration to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the Department insists.
Bond amount × 3% = your premium, one-time, $275 minimum. Enter the figure your prior-year payroll requires and the premium updates.
Hawaii regulates professional employer organizations under HRS chapter 373L, administered by the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. No PEO may enter a professional employment agreement with a Hawaii client company unless it posts a surety bond (or an equivalent irrevocable letter of credit) under HRS 373L-3.
The bond indemnifies a client company that suffers loss from the PEO's nonperformance — for example, failing to pay the wages, taxes, or benefits it agreed to handle. It is a three-party arrangement among the PEO (principal), the surety, and the client companies the bond protects, and if the surety pays a claim, the PEO repays the surety.
The bond amount is based on your previous year's total payroll, so it scales as you grow. PEOs file IRS Form W-3 annually, and if total payroll moves into a different bond tier, you must obtain a new bond to match. Enter the amount your registration requires and we issue it at a flat 3% with no credit check.
Submit the application with your required bond amount — the executed bond is generated instantly, ready to file with the Department.
Start the application →If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
Five-minute application, flat 3%, $275 minimum. Enter the amount your payroll requires and file with the Department.