Washington Vehicle Registration Fee Calculator

Washington's fees went UP on January 1, 2026, and most published figures have not caught up. The passenger vehicle license fee is $30.00 (RCW 46.17.350), and the motor vehicle weight fee under RCW 46.17.365 — as amended by 2025 c 417 — is now $35.00 at 4,000 lb or less, $65.00 up to 6,000 lb, $82.50 up to 8,000 lb, and $96.00 at 16,000 lb and above, with scale weight rounded UP to the next listed tier. The older $25/$45/$65 tiers are obsolete. A title is $15.00, though from October 1, 2026 a $40 fee applies when the title results from a dealer retail sale or lease. Sales tax is 6.5% state plus an additional 0.5% motor vehicle sales/use tax (itself raised from 0.3% on January 1, 2026) plus your local rate. Electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids with 30+ miles of electric range owe $150 per year (RCW 46.17.323). The single biggest local variable is the Sound Transit RTA excise tax: 1.1% of MSRP on a statutory depreciation schedule, charged ONLY inside the Sound Transit district covering parts of King, Pierce and Snohomish counties — it can add several hundred dollars a year and cannot be computed statewide, so it is a toggle. DISCLOSED: Washington's trade-in exclusion and the original-issue plate/filing fees were not retrievable this pass, so no trade-in deduction is applied and those fees are not charged; your actual bill may differ.