Fee Schedule
Attention LLR Customers LLR encourages the use of its online licensing services to issue licenses as quickly as possible to our clients. Starting May 15, 2011, a $25 service fee will be instituted for licensing services done in person rather than online.
Attention Check Writers We gladly accept your checks. When you provide a check as payment, you authorize us to use information from the check to make a one-time electronic fund transfer from your account, or to process the payment as a check transaction. You authorize us to collect a fee through electronic fund transfer from your account if your payment is returned unpaid.
Make checks payable to:
LLR-Engineering & Surveying Board
PO Box 11597
Columbia SC 29211-1597
I. APPLICATION FEES
A. Engineer-in-Training (EIT):
1) EAC/ABET Senior students/graduates NO FEE
2) CEAB/Washington Accord graduates NO FEE
3) TAC/ABET (Four-year) Senior students/graduates NO FEE
4) Non-EAC/ABET (other than those in item 2 above) graduates $200.00
B. Professional Engineer (PE): Category A Professional Engineer
1) Exam Registration – Category A
$65.00 (EAC/ABET and CEAB/Washington Accord graduates)
2) Exam Registration – Category A (Non-EAC/ABET Engineering)
$265.00 (includes $200 education evaluation fee)
3) Comity Registration – Category A
$75.00 (EAC/ABET and CEAB/Washington Accord graduates)
4) Comity Registration – Category A (Non-EAC/ABET Engineering)
$275.00 (includes $200 education evaluation fee)
Category B Associate Professional Engineer (restricted license)
1) Exam Registration – Category B (TAC/ABET)
$65.00
2) Upgrade to Category A (includes $200 education evaluation fee)
$215.00
C. Engineering Technology Graduates:
Application $75.00
D. Land Surveyor-in-Training (LSIT)
Exam Registration NO FEE
E. Professional Surveyor
TIER A Professional Land Boundary Surveyor
1) Exam Registration (must have LSIT Certification)
$65.00
2) Comity Registration
$140.00 (includes education evaluation and state-specific exam fees; additional administrative fee
charged by NCEES)
TIER A Professional Land Boundary Surveyor-Geodetic Surveying
$65.00
Photogrammetric Surveyor
$65.00
Geographic Information System (GIS) Surveyor $65.00
TIER B Professional Land Surveyor
$65.00 (Long Form – must be registered as TIER A; does not include $75 exam fee)
F. Firm Registration
COA (Certificate of Authorization) Application $115.00
II. EDUCATION EVALUATIONS: By SC Board education evaluator
Engineering Applicants $200.00
Surveying Applicants $40.00
By NCEES Credentials Evaluation Services Contact NCEES
III. EXAMINATION FEES:
(Examination Fees are not included in the application fee; do not send examination fee until advised to do so.)
1) Fundamentals of Engineering - 8 hours, national Set by NCEES
2) Principles and Practice of Engineering - 8 hours, national Set by NCEES
3) Fundamentals of Land Surveying – 8 hours, national Set by NCEES
4) Principles and Practice of Land Surveying – 6 hours, national Set by NCEES
5) TIER B LS – 8 hours, local $75.00
Click here for NCEES exam fees: http://www.ncees.org/Exams/States/SC.php
IV. GENERAL FEES:
1) Electronic List Order .$10.00
2) Verifications $5.00
V. TEMPORARY PERMITS:
1) Professional Engineers $100.00
2) Firms $150.00
VI. RENEWAL FEES: (Effective 7/1/02– Biennial renewal fee)
1) PE (CATEGORY A) $100.00
2) PE (CATEGORY B) $100.00
* 3) LS (TIER A Professional Land Boundary Surveyor) $100.00
* 4) LS (TIER A Professional Land Boundary-Geodetic Provisions) $100.00
* 5) LS (Professional Photogrammetric Surveyor) $100.00
* 6) LS (Professional GIS Surveyor) $100.00
* 7) LS (TIER B) $100.00
8) Dual (PE/LS) $200.00
9) Firms $90.00
*Note: An individual licensed in multiple disciplines of land surveying will be required to pay only $100.00 for the biennial renewal fee.
All examinations are administered by NCEES. Examination and administrative fees are set by NCEES and are available online at http://www.ncees.org/Exams/States/SC.php
**Applicants must be approved by the South Carolina Board prior to registering for an examination.**
Revised July 2012
