Missouri employment agency bonds.
$100 flat.
Missouri repealed its statewide employment-agency licensing law in 1999, so a $5,000 employment-agency bond today is generally a legacy, contractual, or local requirement rather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 $100 flat, and no credit check.
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How much does a Missouri employment agency bond cost?
$100 at the $5,000 amount, the same for every applicant.
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 is the application. No credit check.
Pay & e-sign
Small fixed-amount bonds like this issue right after purchase in most cases.
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.
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Missouri once licensed private employment agencies and conditioned the license on a surety bond, but the state repealed that licensing chapter (Chapter 289, RSMo) effective August 28, 1999.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 $100 flat, and no credit check — same honest pricing as every bond we write.
You need this bond if you are
Claims, renewal, filing, and what sets the price.
If a claim is made
A claim comes from the party the bond protects, the obligee named on the form, when the duty the bond guarantees is not met.
The surety investigates and pays a valid claim, up to the $5,000 bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
The bond runs to May 1 whatever day you buy; the premium covers the period to that date.
Renewal falls on the statutory date, May 1, in the year your term ends.
Renew before the expiry date to keep the bond in force: the license, permit or contract it backs expects continuous coverage.
How to file it
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.
What sets the price
The premium is fixed at $100 at the $5,000 amount for every applicant: the carrier’s rate book prices this bond by the form, not by your credit or your business profile.
No credit check.
One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields. No credit check.
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Employment agency bond, issued today.
$100 flat, no credit check, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.