What it costs · อ่านเป็นภาษาไทย
What does a Thai work permit and visa cost?
Immigration and the Labour Department charge a few thousand baht in government fees, and agents charge 8,000 to 40,000 baht on top to handle it. Many pages blur the two together, so the first question to ask any agent is which part of their number is theirs.
Based on 91 prices published by 33 firms · Last reviewed 29 August 2026
Government fees
1,900 to 3,800 each
Visa change 2,000, one year extension 1,900, re entry 1,000 single or 3,800 multiple.
Thai agent service fee
7,900 to 19,000 per person
Work permit, extension or a tourist to Non-B conversion.
Firm selling in English
15,000 to 40,000 per person
Same filings, English handling, usually excludes government fees.
The company qualifies before the person does
A work permit is granted against the company, not against you. The usual test is two million baht of registered capital per foreign work permit and four Thai employees on social security per foreigner, with different rules for BOI promoted companies and for those under the Treaty of Amity. If your company does not meet that, no agent fee changes the answer.
This is why a visa quote and a company setup quote are often the same conversation, and why an agent who asks nothing about your company before quoting is guessing.
Government fee or service fee
The government side is small and public. Changing a tourist visa to a Non-B inside Thailand is 2,000 baht, a one year extension of stay is 1,900 baht, a single re entry permit is 1,000 baht and a multiple is 3,800 baht. Work permit issue fees are banded by duration.
Everything above that is the agent. One firm in our sample was unusually candid and split its number into a 15,000 baht professional fee and a 3,000 baht convenience fee. Most simply publish one figure.
Chiang Mai, and the pricing silence
Every expat facing visa agency we checked in Chiang Mai publishes nothing at all: no service fee anywhere on the site. In Bangkok several Thai language firms publish a full rate card. If you are in the north and being quoted verbally, the Bangkok published numbers are a reasonable sanity check.
What firms actually publish
Each of these was printed on that firm’s own website. Follow the link and you will find the figure, or tell us and we will correct the page.
| Firm | What the price is for | THB | The condition attached | Sells to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| K.S.3039 Business | Work permit, Bangkok | 7,900 per person | Per person | Thai |
| C.K.A. Accounting and Law | One year work visa extension | 12,000 per person | Excludes government fees | Thai |
| C.K.A. Accounting and Law | Tourist visa converted to Non-B | 19,000 per person | Excludes government fees | Thai |
| UnionSPACE | Work permit | 38,000 per person | Per person | Foreign facing |
How we got these numbers
We read the public pages of 33 firms that publish something for this category, out of more than two hundred researched. No firm was contacted, no enquiry form was submitted, and nobody posed as a customer, which is the thing our own terms forbid customers to do to providers. Prices were taken only from a firm’s own domain, never from a directory or a comparison site, and never converted between currencies.
Published prices move, and a page can go stale between our reviews. This is a guide to what the market prints, not a quote, and not accounting or legal advice for your company. Found one that has changed? Tell us and we will fix it.