NC job listing service bonds.
$750 flat. Soft pull.
North Carolina licenses job listing services — businesses that sell job-vacancy information to job seekers — through the NC Department of Labor, and conditions the license on a $25,000 bond payable to the State. Ours is $750 flat (3% of the bond amount), with one soft credit pull.
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Three steps to filed.
Your license is waiting on this bond. Here's the whole process — no broker phone tag:
Apply once, online
Business details, owner information, effective date. That is the application — the only extra step is a one-time consent to a soft credit pull.
Reviewed & approved
Most of these clear quickly; if underwriting needs anything, you hear from an underwriter within 48 hours. The credit check is a soft pull that never affects your score.
E-sign & file with the Department of Labor
Pay online and receive the executed $25,000 bond ready to deposit with the NC Department of Labor alongside your license. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever required.
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
North Carolina licenses job listing services — businesses that, for a fee, supply job seekers with lists of job vacancies — through the NC Department of Labor under G.S. Chapter 95, Article 5B (added by 1993 Session Law, S.B. 657). The license requires a $25,000 surety bond payable to the State.
The bond is a consumer-protection guarantee focused on refunds owed to job seekers. If a job listing service closes or fails to deliver, the Department holds the bond until all refunds owed under the law are processed, so customers who paid for vacancy information they didn't receive can recover.
Because the bond amount is larger than a typical small license bond, it is written with one soft credit pull. The pull never affects your score and never changes the $750 price — credit can affect approval, never cost. We track the bond and notify you 60 and 30 days before renewal.
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Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual underwriting fields, including a one-time consent to a soft credit pull. Submit once and your bond is typically issued within 1–2 business days.
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 is waiting on one document.
$750 flat, five-minute application, e-signed bond in 1–2 business days. Free until issued.