Estate Settlement Cost
Menu

Idaho personal representative compensation

Idaho executor fee calculator

Idaho Code § 15-3-719 entitles a personal representative to "reasonable compensation for his services." There is no statutory percentage schedule. A will may fix compensation, but the personal representative may renounce that provision before qualifying and take reasonable compensation instead, and may also renounce any part of the fee.

Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch September 15, 2026.

1. Where and when
Private by design: entries stay in this browser.
2. Compensation base

Ownership determines whether an asset usually enters probate. Choose “Not sure” when title or beneficiary status has not been confirmed.

Asset 1

Asset 2

Your working estimate

Idaho estate snapshot

Gross probate propertyNot yet counted
Court chargeSet locallyIdaho Code § 31-3201A(1) sets the district-court civil filing fee at $175 generally, "except for those cases to be assigned to the magistrate division of the district court for which the fee shall be one hundred twenty dollars ($120)". Probate is heard in the magistrate division, so the base magistrate fee is $120. But § 31-3201A charges that fee "in addition to" the charges imposed by § 1-2003 (+$26 for a decedent's-estate civil case), § 31-3201 (+$10 administrative surcharge) and § 73-213 (+$10), making the true opening cost at least $166. Because those three additional charges are imposed by separate statutes not yet registered here as verified sources, the opening fee is published as variable rather than as an unsupported fixed number. The § 15-3-1201 affidavit route is presented directly to the debtor/holder and requires no court filing or fee.
Scheduled executor compensationMore information needed2 asset entries have no value entered.Idaho Code § 15-3-719 entitles a personal representative to "reasonable compensation for his services." There is no statutory percentage schedule. A will may fix compensation, but the personal representative may renounce that provision before qualifying and take reasonable compensation instead, and may also renounce any part of the fee.

This route check is general information, not legal advice. It does not test every eligibility condition, creditor issue, will provision, local fee, or asset-title fact.

How Idaho executor compensation works

In Idaho, the personal representative (executor) is the person the court appoints, or the will nominates, to administer the estate. Idaho compensation is governed by state statute and, where the statute permits, by the terms of the will or a court order, so the lawful Idaho fee is whatever those authorities set — not a national rule of thumb.

Idaho does not set a statewide percentage schedule.

The amount is not computable from estate value alone. This page therefore publishes no percentage result; it reports the reasonable-compensation standard the reviewed record supports instead.

What this state does not set

Idaho does not set one statutory percentage to multiply by the estate. Do not substitute a neighboring state's rate or an informal fee table. The amount depends on the services and accounting in the particular administration, and the will may affect the compensation analysis where the governing rule allows it.

The governing compensation standard

15-3-719. Compensation of personal representative. A personal representative is entitled to reasonable compensation for his services.

How the amount is fixed

Idaho Code § 15-3-719 entitles a personal representative to "reasonable compensation for his services." There is no statutory percentage schedule. A will may fix compensation, but the personal representative may renounce that provision before qualifying and take reasonable compensation instead, and may also renounce any part of the fee.

Keep the estate accounting, time and task log, receipts, and any will or compensation agreement together. Before taking a fee, ask the Magistrate Division of the District Court how compensation is presented for review in this estate and whether an order or account approval is required. This page cannot decide what a court will consider reasonable.

Idaho’s fee review provision has not been amended since 1971

Idaho Code § 15-3-719 entitles a personal representative to reasonable compensation for services, with the uniform renunciation rules attached. No Idaho percentage schedule exists and the code sets no factors for measuring what is reasonable.

The review provision, § 15-3-721, lets the court examine the propriety of employing any person by the representative — the statute names attorneys, auditors, investment advisors and other specialised agents or assistants — the reasonableness of their compensation, and the reasonableness of the compensation the representative determined for their own services. Review follows notice to all interested persons, or a petition by an interested person, or an appropriate motion where administration is supervised. Anyone who has received excessive compensation may be ordered to make appropriate refunds.

Its history line is short enough to quote in full: “I.C., sec. 15-3-721, as added by 1971, ch. 111, sec. 1, p. 233.” Idaho enacted the uniform review provision when it adopted the Uniform Probate Code and has left it alone since. Nebraska, by contrast, amended its equivalent in 1980 to add seven statutory factors, and Minnesota added three in 1979. Idaho’s silence is the deliberate result of not legislating further, not an oversight, and it puts the whole of the reasonableness question in the hands of the court hearing the accounting.

Source: Idaho Code §§ 15-3-719, 15-3-721, read from the enacting state’s own published code on 2026-09-17. Quoted wording is the statute’s; the surrounding explanation is this site’s reading of it and is not legal advice.

Idaho compensation map

Which figure the Idaho fee rule actually measures

A percentage is not a fee answer until its base is known. This Idaho map identifies the compensation standard and the accounting figure it uses, while keeping court approval and extraordinary work outside an invented total.

QuestionRecorded Idaho answerCarry into the case
What route is being screened?Collection of personal property by affidavit (Idaho Code § 15-3-1201)Confirm that the will, prior appointment, family facts, and asset titles fit this route.
What property and basis count?personal probate property only; net of enforceable liens and encumbrances.Keep real property, liens, beneficiary transfers, and survivorship transfers classified separately.
What is the amount screen?$100,000Use the counted property, not a bank-balance shortcut.
What is the time or deadline record?30 days after death; Idaho runs multiple independently-triggered claim deadlines that cannot honestly collapse into one number: a four-month bar running from first publication of the notice to creditors (§ 15-3-801(a)); a separate actual-notice period for a creditor given written notice by mail, running to the later of four months after publication or sixty (60) days after the mailing/delivery of the notice (§ 15-3-801(b)); and an outer nonclaim bar of three years after death (§ 15-3-803(a)(1)). Publishing a single figure would mislead.Keep the event that starts each clock with the date; do not combine separate periods into one number.
What does the cost record establish?No single statewide amount is published here; confirm the receiving court's current schedule.Ask the Magistrate Division of the District Court about local surcharges, copies, publication, bond, and later filings.
What does compensation use?Idaho Code § 15-3-719 entitles a personal representative to "reasonable compensation for his services." There is no statutory percentage schedule. A will may fix compensation, but the personal representative may renounce that provision before qualifying and take reasonable compensation instead, and may also renounce any part of the fee. The relevant base is the estate accounting.Keep the will, task log, receipts, and accounting base together; extraordinary work is separate.

Compensation record

The Idaho fee record, band by band

This is the registry view of the compensation rule, separate from the calculator result. It shows whether a rate schedule exists and what accounting base the schedule names. A blank band is not permission to borrow a percentage from another state.

Idaho has no tier table this site can price from the accepted record. The controlling record is Idaho Code § 15-3-719; read its quoted standard and ask the court how the fee is presented for approval.

Prepare a reasonable-compensation request

Because Idaho does not publish a percentage table here, the useful output is a record of the work and the accounting figure the court can review. Keep the will or appointment order, the the estate accounting the rule names, a dated task log, receipts, and a separate list of extraordinary work. This worksheet does not predict what the Magistrate Division of the District Court will approve.

15-3-719. Compensation of personal representative. A personal representative is entitled to reasonable compensation for his services.

Record to assembleWhy it matters to the Idaho review
Will, appointment, or compensation agreementShows whether a document states a fee or leaves the amount to the reviewed standard.
Accounting baseSeparates the estate accounting from the gross asset list.
Dated task and time recordConnects the requested amount to the administration work actually performed.
Receipts and extraordinary-work listKeeps expenses and separately reviewable services out of an unexplained round number.

Case-file context

Keep the Idaho answer with its neighboring conditions

A route answer is easier to use when the facts that can change it stay in the same record. These are the reviewed Idaho descriptions adjacent to this page\'s main question; they are not a substitute for the source quotations or the receiving court\'s instructions.

Route context

Idaho is a Uniform Probate Code state. Small personal-property estates of $100,000 or less (measured net of liens and encumbrances) can be collected by affidavit under Idaho Code § 15-3-1201 thirty days after death, with no court filing. Formal and informal probate proceedings are heard in the Magistrate Division of the District Court. Idaho Code § 31-3201A sets the magistrate-division civil fee at $120, but charges it "in addition to" separately imposed statutory charges (§ 1-2003, § 31-3201 and § 73-213), so the opening cost is not a single settled figure and is presented as variable below. Personal representatives receive reasonable compensation under § 15-3-719.

A claiming successor may collect the decedent's personal property by presenting an affidavit stating that the fair market value of the entire estate subject to probate, wherever located, less liens and encumbrances, does not exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000); that thirty (30) days have elapsed since death; and that no application or petition for appointment of a personal representative or for summary administration is pending or has been granted (Idaho Code § 15-3-1201(a)).

Cost context

Idaho Code § 31-3201A(1) sets the district-court civil filing fee at $175 generally, "except for those cases to be assigned to the magistrate division of the district court for which the fee shall be one hundred twenty dollars ($120)". Probate is heard in the magistrate division, so the base magistrate fee is $120. But § 31-3201A charges that fee "in addition to" the charges imposed by § 1-2003 (+$26 for a decedent's-estate civil case), § 31-3201 (+$10 administrative surcharge) and § 73-213 (+$10), making the true opening cost at least $166. Because those three additional charges are imposed by separate statutes not yet registered here as verified sources, the opening fee is published as variable rather than as an unsupported fixed number. The § 15-3-1201 affidavit route is presented directly to the debtor/holder and requires no court filing or fee.

No single statewide amount is published here; confirm the receiving court's current schedule.

Deadline context

Idaho runs multiple independently-triggered claim deadlines that cannot honestly collapse into one number: a four-month bar running from first publication of the notice to creditors (§ 15-3-801(a)); a separate actual-notice period for a creditor given written notice by mail, running to the later of four months after publication or sixty (60) days after the mailing/delivery of the notice (§ 15-3-801(b)); and an outer nonclaim bar of three years after death (§ 15-3-803(a)(1)). Publishing a single figure would mislead.

Court-material note: Idaho probate is administered in the Magistrate Division of the District Court. Idaho publishes statewide self-help resources through the Idaho Court Self-Help Center; forms and the operative filing fee for a magistrate-division civil case are set statewide by Idaho Code § 31-3201A. The § 15-3-1201 affidavit is a private demand instrument, not a court filing, so no statewide affidavit form is required to be filed with the court.

Arithmetic illustration

See the Idaho amount screen without mistaking it for a result

The recorded Idaho ceiling is $100,000, and it is tested against personal probate property only, on a basis this site records as net of enforceable liens and encumbrances. Counted that way, $75,000 sits below the Idaho figure and $125,000 sits above it. Both are comparisons to a published number rather than legal outcomes: two estates holding the same total can land on opposite sides of this line, because what Idaho counts and how it values it are decided before the comparison is made.

Illustrative counted amountComparison to the Idaho ceilingWhat it does not decide
$75,000Below $100,000Title, liens, waiting period, appointment, or creditor duties
$125,000Above $100,000Whether another statutory route or court process applies

Next evidence to collect

Bring the stated accounting base and the will or court instructions to the compensation discussion.

  1. Record the date of death, the county, and the exact proceeding or affidavit being considered.
  2. Classify each asset by title, beneficiary, trust, real-property status, and the value basis shown above.
  3. Open the official court material below and keep its form or schedule with the estate record.
  4. Do not distribute property until the route, creditor position, and required approvals are resolved.

Official material

Idaho probate is administered in the Magistrate Division of the District Court. Idaho publishes statewide self-help resources through the Idaho Court Self-Help Center; forms and the operative filing fee for a magistrate-division civil case are set statewide by Idaho Code § 31-3201A. The § 15-3-1201 affidavit is a private demand instrument, not a court filing, so no statewide affidavit form is required to be filed with the court.

Source trail

Records used by this Idaho map

Compensation source

Each legal input links to the government source reviewed for this page. Source text can change; confirm the current rule before acting.

Continue in Idaho