Executor Fee in Georgia (2026)

Updated August 3, 2026. Quick answer: Georgia’s 2.5% in and 2.5% out is a default, not a floor or a ceiling. It applies only where the will does not provide compensation and there is no agreement. A Georgia will that states the executor’s compensation displaces the statute entirely — which is why reading the will comes before reading the code.

The default commission

Under O.C.G.A. §53-6-60, where compensation is not fixed by the will or by agreement, the personal representative receives 2.5% of all sums of money received and 2.5% of all sums paid out, with a further 10% commission on interest earned on money loaned by the representative, and separate provision for property distributed in kind.

Why “received and paid out” is not the same as a percentage of the estate

The base is cash movement, not estate value. An estate that liquidates and then distributes cash generates commission twice — once coming in and once going out — while an estate whose house passes in kind to a beneficiary generates far less on the same nominal value. Two Georgia estates of identical size can produce very different commissions depending purely on whether assets were sold.

The will governs first

Because the statute is a default, the operative question is what the will says. Where it fixes compensation, that governs; where it is silent, the statute fills the gap.

What the whole process costs in this state: Georgia probate cost. Every state’s fee model side by side: probate cost by state.

Work out the number: the executor fee calculator. How the standard is applied where no schedule exists: reasonable-compensation states. Whether to take the fee at all: when the executor is also an heir, and how the fee is taxed.

Statutory text read at each state’s own legislature or official code publisher. General information, not legal advice; a court retains the final say on what compensation is allowed.