MO employment agency bonds.
$275. Five minutes.
Missouri repealed its statewide employment-agency licensing law in 1999, so a $5,000 employment-agency bond today is generally a legacy, contractual, or local requirement rather than a current state mandate. If you've been asked for the $5,000 bond, ours is $275 flat with no credit check.
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Three steps. One sitting.
If someone is requiring this bond, here's the entire process — no broker phone tag:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit check section.
Pay & e-sign
Small fixed-amount bonds like this issue right after purchase in most cases — at most 1–2 business days.
Deliver to whoever required it
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to hand to the client, contract counterparty, or local office that asked for it. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
The whole pricing page.
$5,000 bond × 3% = $150, which rounds up to our $275 minimum premium. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually covers
Missouri once licensed private employment agencies and conditioned the license on a surety bond, but the state repealed that licensing chapter (Chapter 289, RSMo) effective August 28, 1999. There is no longer a statewide employment-agency license or bond mandate in Missouri.
So when an employment or staffing agency is asked for a $5,000 bond today, it's generally a legacy, contractual, or local requirement — a client, a contract, a municipal ordinance, or an out-of-state obligee that still references the old figure. The bond protects whoever required it against losses from the agency violating the terms of that arrangement.
We'll be straight with you: if you're not sure this bond is actually required, ask whoever is requesting it for the exact citation before you buy. If it is required at the standard $5,000, we issue it at our $275 minimum with no credit check — same honest pricing as every bond we write.
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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.
Does Missouri require an employment agency bond? +
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What does the bond protect against? +
I'm not sure I actually need this — what should I do? +
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Employment agency bond, issued today.
$275 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.