How Much Does A Surety Bond Cost? 

This is the Suretybonds.com Education Center. Today we are looking at a question we get a lot and that is this: how much does a surety bond cost? Well how much does a surety bond cost? It depends on what type of bond you’re going to get. It really just depends. Why? There are thousands of types of surety bonds out there. There are janitorial bonds, mortgage broker bonds, bonds for construction and building apartment complexes, etc. They go from Washington state to Florida and back up to Maine. It depend on the type of bond you’re going to get. It also depends on a couple of other things about your own personal history. The big one is credit score. In a lot of ways getting a surety bond is a lot like getting a home loan or car loan or anything like that, that is more traditional for you to understand how a credit score comes into play. They’re evaluating the risk that they’re gonna take on by giving you a surety bond. It can also depend on your experience in your industry. If you have 30 years experience as a mortgage broker bond, that’s going to count in your favor when you’re going to get a surety bond and you’re going to find out the premium cost and all that stuff. If you’ve got a good credit score depending on the type of bond you’re going to get and depending on little things like how long you’ve been in business and prior claims on you for previous surety bonds. That will help determine your cost. Now some of you may have Googled this because you want to know how much your bond will cost because you need a bail bond. This is not the place for you. SuretyBonds.com does commercial surety bonds. We do not do bail bonds. I know a lot of times in news reports online or maybe even when you’re getting arrested and you need to get a bond. I would suggest going to Google and looking up your area bail bonds company. For everybody else looking for commercial surety bonds this is the place to be.
There are two different markets for surety bonds: standard and non-standard. This can also come into play when you’re talking about how much a surety bond is going to cost. Standard is the traditional market. These are premiums that the average person pays is you have a credit score over 650 and been in business for a few years. The other list of criteria is something we can go over with you if you contact us at Suretybonds.com. In the standard market, you’re going to pay between 1 to 3% for a premium on the cost of your bond. For example a $50,000 bond paying 1% is going to be a $500 cost to you. Now, if you fail to meet some of the standard market criteria, you’ll end up in the non-standard market. You’ll start paying premiums from 6 to 15 percent. For example, a $50,000 bond at 10% will cost $5,000 in premium up front. It can really change the cost that you’ll have to pay depending if you fall in the standard or non-standard market. These things come into play: credit score, how long you’ve been in business and prior claims against you.
For more information in figuring out the price our your bond visit www.suretybonds.com/edu/faqs.