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Maryland executor fee calculator

The court-selected commission may not exceed 9% of property subject to administration up to $20,000, or $1,800 plus 3.6% of the excess over $20,000.

Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Sources rechecked October 3, 2026. This page last revised .

1. Where and when
2. Compensation base

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Maryland estate snapshot

Gross probate propertyNot yet counted
Court chargeMore information neededProbate fees assessed on the value of the probate estate2 asset entries have no value entered. A blank amount is not treated as zero, so the charge cannot be computed.Court charges only, for the proceeding named beside each figure. That proceeding is not always the route screened above.
Scheduled executor compensationMore information needed2 asset entries have no value entered.The court-selected commission may not exceed 9% of property subject to administration up to $20,000, or $1,800 plus 3.6% of the excess over $20,000. A will may provide a larger measure; the statute calls compensation reasonable and permits renunciation. It states no separate extraordinary-services percentage.

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.

Work out the Maryland cap from the estate’s accounting

Md. Code, Est. & Trusts § 7-601 sets the most the Orphans’ Court / Register of Wills may allow, measured on amounts from the estate’s own accounting rather than on what the estate is worth. Type those amounts below and the worksheet prices that limit, nothing more.

Maryland: up to 9% of the first $20,000 of property subject to administration, then 3.6% of the excess (Md. Code, Est. & Trusts § 7-601)

Md. Code, Est. & Trusts § 7-601(b) lets the court allow commissions up to this table unless the will provides a larger measure; a broker’s commission on a real estate sale is paid by the estate and does not come out of it (subsection (d)).

Fill in every figure to see what Md. Code, Est. & Trusts § 7-601 allows. Nothing you type leaves this browser.

How Maryland sets executor compensation

A will may provide a larger measure; the statute calls compensation reasonable and permits renunciation. It states no separate extraordinary-services percentage.

The calculator applies the Maryland schedule to the value you enter, measured against the gross value of the probate estate. Under Md. Code, Est. & Trusts § 7-601(c) a circuit court reviewing the allowance can raise it only up to this table, though a real estate broker’s commission on a sale is an estate expense and is not taken out of it (subsection (d)). Under Md. Code, Est. & Trusts § 7-601, the court allows more than a fee the will states if it judges that fee insufficient, the commission table yields where the will provides a larger measure, and the representative may renounce all or part of the fee at any time.

The figure the Maryland schedule is applied to

The rate is only half of the answer; the other half is the number the rate is applied to, and in Maryland that number is specific. The reviewed rule measures compensation against the property subject to administration. Apply the ceiling to the statutory property-subject-to-administration base, not to receipts, gross estate generally, or the probate-fee accounting base.

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