S.C. Code Ann. § 35-1-480 – Fees

(A) Every applicant for initial or renewal registration as a broker-dealer, broker-dealer agent, investment adviser, or investment adviser representative shall pass one or more examinations, pay a registration fee, and meet other requirements as required by the securities commissioner.
(B) Except with respect to federally-covered advisers whose only clients are those described in Section 35-1-420(1)(a), a federally-covered adviser shall file with the commissioner, prior to acting as a federally-covered adviser in this State, such documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission or such other notice filing document, as the commissioner may by rule or otherwise require, together with the notice fee and consent to service of process as the commissioner, by rule or otherwise, requires. The notice filing provisions under this subsection expire as provided in Section 35-1-430.
(C) The following filing fees remain in effect for all initial, renewal, and notice filings described in subsections (A) and (B) of this section unless and until the securities commissioner promulgates a rule or order establishing different fees:
1. (1) broker-dealer: three hundred ten dollars;
2. (2) agent: one hundred ten dollars;
3. (3) investment adviser and federally-covered adviser: two hundred ten dollars;
4. (4) investment adviser representative: fifty-five dollars.
(D) When an application is denied or withdrawn, the filing fee must not be refunded.