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 federal covered advisers whose only clients are those described in Section 35-1-420(1)(a), a federal covered adviser shall file with the commissioner, prior to acting as a federal 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 such notice fee and consent to service of process as the commissioner, by rule or otherwise, may require. The notice filing provisions under this subsection shall expire as provided in Section 35-1-430.
(C) The following filing fees shall 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 dollars;
2. (2) agent: one hundred dollars;
3. (3) investment adviser and federal covered adviser: four hundred dollars;
4. (4) investment adviser representative: one hundred dollars.
(D) When an application is denied or withdrawn the filing fee must not be refunded.