What a notification actually costs
Counted from 11,147 Wisconsin notifications, July 2019 through September 2026.
The fee schedule is published, so what it says is not news. What is not published is what firms were actually charged — and the state's own record has that too, one notification at a time. This is what it adds up to.
What the schedule says
Four figures, set by how much asbestos is on the job: $135, $400, $700 and $1,325. Form 4500-113 prints them as single amounts, one per band, which is the only place a filer meets them. In the code they are two fees added together, a permit-exemption review fee and an inspection fee, and the smallest band owes the inspection fee alone — that is why it is $135 rather than something larger. The rules page cites the sections.
What firms were actually charged
10,017 of the notifications in the record carry a fee. The middle one is $400. The average is $438.79, higher than the middle because the top band pulls it up.
- Middle
- $400
- Average
- $438.79
- $400 or more
- 5,452 of 10,017
- Lowest charged
- $100
- Highest charged
- $2,650
Both ends of that are worth a sentence, because neither is in the schedule. The $100 is the fire-training burn fee, which is flat and ignores quantities. The $2,650 is twice the top band — the charge for a notification that went in after the work had already started.
Filing late doubles it
181 notifications in the record were charged exactly twice the band fee. That is what an after-the-fact filing costs: not a surcharge on top, the whole thing again. On a job in the top band it is the difference between $1,325 and $2,650.
Read literally, the code does not say that. NR 410.05(3)(f) adds “an amount equal to and in addition to the inspection fee”, and on a larger job the inspection fee is only part of what you pay — the other part is the review fee. Read that way, a $1,325 job would come to $2,525.
The record says otherwise, and it is not a close call. Every one of these big enough to owe a review fee was charged the full double: $800 against a $400 band, $1,400 against $700, $2,650 against $1,325. So the sentence above is what the state charges, not what the sentence in the code predicts, and if you are budgeting a late filing you should budget the double.
NR 410.05(3)(f)
How closely the charges follow the schedule
Closely, and every exception is named in the code. Of the 10,017 that carried a fee:
- 9,266 are exactly what the schedule predicts for the asbestos on that job.
- 560 are the flat $100 fire-training burn fee, and 10 more are $200.
- 181 are exactly twice the band fee — the after-the-fact charge above.
- 27 carry no fee we could read. None were malformed.
Which is the useful part: the schedule is not advisory and it is not applied loosely. What you are charged is what the bands say, unless you filed late.
NR 410.05(3)(e) for the burn fee, (3)(f) for the after-the-fact charge
What revising costs
Moving a date carries no fee at all. The code adds $100 when the amount of asbestos changes by 20% or more, and in the whole record we have not found a notification that was charged it.
427 revisions do carry a fee of their own, from $35 to $1,325, with the middle one at $300. None of them is the $100 in (4).
NR 410.05(4)
Where these numbers come from
Wisconsin publishes its asbestos notifications. This is 11,147 of them, July 2019 through September 2026, read one packet at a time — not a survey, not an estimate, and not a figure anybody was asked for. Each one above is re-measured against that record by this project's test suite, so if the record moves and this page does not, the build goes red before the page goes stale.
Two things it is not. The counted figures start in March 2020, because Wisconsin's own packets before then are scans with no text in them — the notifications are listed, and what they say is a picture. And it is not a prediction of your invoice: it is what the state charged other people, which is a good guide and not a quote.