Updated August 7, 2026. Quick answer: one page per state collecting every figure we hold about it — what dying costs, the estate and property rules, how pay and leave law works, what it costs to start a business, and how the state taxes you. Every number is copied from a dataset that cites its own statute or agency, and linked back to it.
What the 51 sheets show when you line them up
These are computed from the same datasets the sheets are built from, at the time this page was generated — not written by hand and left to drift.
- It costs $35 to form an LLC in Montana and $500 in Massachusetts — a 14-fold difference across the 48 states where we hold the fee.
- 44 jurisdictions authorise audio-video remote online notarization, 4 do not, 2 have enacted it without switching it on, and 1 is contested — and two of the “no” states are only no because remote ink notarization is a different thing.
- 44 of 51 guaranty associations cap a life insurance death benefit at exactly $300,000 — and the rest depart from it, California by applying 80% coinsurance beneath the cap.
- 16 jurisdictions have a pay-transparency law and 35 do not.
- 6 states are recorded as having no statutory security-deposit cap at all — Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Wyoming — each one a verified absence rather than a blank.
- In 4 states we could not locate a statutory life-insurance grace period — Connecticut, Iowa, Mississippi, Tennessee. That is a gap in what we could reach, not a finding that the states lack one, and it is why those sheets are shorter.
The sheets
51 of 51 are live. Only sheets that exist are listed here — a directory that links to pages which do not exist yet is the first thing a reference surface should not do.
- Alabama — 63 figures
- Alaska — 66 figures
- Arizona — 73 figures
- Arkansas — 72 figures
- California — 91 figures
- Colorado — 81 figures
- Connecticut — 79 figures
- Delaware — 78 figures
- District of Columbia — 76 figures
- Florida — 77 figures
- Georgia — 62 figures
- Hawaii — 81 figures
- Idaho — 68 figures
- Illinois — 77 figures
- Indiana — 67 figures
- Iowa — 76 figures
- Kansas — 68 figures
- Kentucky — 70 figures
- Louisiana — 68 figures
- Maine — 80 figures
- Maryland — 84 figures
- Massachusetts — 83 figures
- Michigan — 74 figures
- Minnesota — 83 figures
- Mississippi — 59 figures
- Missouri — 78 figures
- Montana — 68 figures
- Nebraska — 69 figures
- Nevada — 80 figures
- New Hampshire — 73 figures
- New Jersey — 81 figures
- New Mexico — 68 figures
- New York — 82 figures
- North Carolina — 67 figures
- North Dakota — 69 figures
- Ohio — 64 figures
- Oklahoma — 66 figures
- Oregon — 78 figures
- Pennsylvania — 71 figures
- Rhode Island — 78 figures
- South Carolina — 65 figures
- South Dakota — 64 figures
- Tennessee — 59 figures
- Texas — 62 figures
- Utah — 69 figures
- Vermont — 74 figures
- Virginia — 75 figures
- Washington — 84 figures
- West Virginia — 66 figures
- Wisconsin — 67 figures
- Wyoming — 73 figures
Why the sheets are different lengths
The figure count beside each state is how many figures we can state about it, and it runs from the low nineties to the high fifties. That is a fact about our data, not about the state. Where a statute could not be reached, or a state has no counterpart to a rule others have, the line is absent rather than filled with an estimate — and the owning dataset for each figure records which of those two it is.
For journalists
Cite any figure as: Clear Money Guide, [State] Money Statistics 2026, with the sheet URL. Every figure links to the dataset that owns it, and that dataset states its primary source and the date it was read — so you can cite us, or go straight to the statute we cite. Free to reuse with attribution under CC BY 4.0.
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