MN plumbing contractor bonds.
$750. Five minutes.
Minnesota requires every plumbing contractor to give and maintain a $25,000 bond to the state for the plumbing work it performs, filed with the Department of Labor and Industry. Ours is $750 flat — 3% of the bond amount, identical for every contractor. The application is five minutes.
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Three steps to licensed.
Your contractor license is waiting on this bond. Here is the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That is the application — no financials, no credit check section, no follow-up.
Pay & e-sign
Contractor code bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with the Department of Labor and Industry
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with your plumbing contractor license application or renewal. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
The whole pricing page.
$25,000 bond × 3% = $750, one-time per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Minnesota licenses plumbing contractors through the Department of Labor and Industry, and conditions that license on a bond under Minn. Stat. 326B.46. Each person who performs or offers plumbing work must give and maintain a bond to the state in a penal sum of at least $25,000 for all plumbing work entered into within the state.
The bond is for the benefit of persons injured or suffering financial loss because the contractor failed to comply with the State Plumbing Code. If you also do subsurface sewage treatment work, the bond can cover failures under Minn. Stat. 115.55 and 115.56 as well.
It is a code-compliance and consumer-protection guarantee, not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. The bond must comply with Minn. Stat. 326B.0921, be written by a corporate surety licensed in Minnesota, and be filed with the commissioner. (A separate public-liability insurance requirement also applies — that is not the bond.)
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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.
Start the application →Common questions.
If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
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The Department of Labor and Industry is waiting on one document.
$750 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.