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2026 cost estimates for dui / dwi in Kansas, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a dui / dwi in Kansas costs on average $5,750, typically $3,850-$7,700 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $165 to $310 per hour. A moderate-complexity case typically takes 3-6 months to resolve. Common related costs include court filing fee ($100-$300) and dmv hearing fee ($100-$200).
Data verified: June 29, 2026
| Complexity | Low | Median | High | Typical Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simple | $1,600 | $2,800 | $4,000 | 1-3 months |
| Moderate | $3,850 | $5,750 | $7,700 | 3-6 months |
| Complex | $8,750 | $14,900 | $21,900 | 6-12 months |
Last verified: June 2026
$165 – $310/ hour
Median: $230/hr
3-6 months
For moderate complexity cases
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</script>DUI/DWI legal cost has two layers that are easy to underestimate: the attorney fee itself, and the non-attorney costs that follow a conviction or plea. The attorney fee is driven mainly by whether the case goes to trial (far more hours billed) or resolves through a plea agreement, plus complicating factors like BAC level, prior offenses, or an accident with injuries. Many DUI attorneys charge a flat fee for a straightforward first offense and switch to hourly billing once the case becomes contested.
Beyond the attorney, a DUI case typically layers on court fines, a state-mandated alcohol education or treatment program, license reinstatement fees, and — for many drivers — an ignition interlock device with ongoing monthly costs. Insurance premium increases are not a one-time legal cost but often the largest total expense over a 3-5 year period following conviction, which is why the figures on this page reflect legal defense costs specifically, not the lifetime cost of a conviction.
Take a moderate-complexity dui / dwi matter in Kansas. The recorded median total is $5,750, with reported quotes clustering between $3,850 and $7,700. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $1,200–$3,500, which leaves roughly $2,250–$4,550 of the Kansas median as professional time — the part that differs between quotes. 2 further recorded fees are not itemised above and are not in that total.
At $5,750, the median dui / dwi cost in Kansas runs 22% below the $7,403 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Kansas carries 3 rows — simple, $1,600–$4,000 at $125–$250/hr over 1-3 months; moderate, $3,850–$7,700 at $165–$310/hr over 3-6 months; complex, $8,750–$21,900 at $210–$375/hr over 6-12 months — on 4 shared citations. Those figures place it in the lower quarter of the table.
$5,750 is a median, not the middle of the band — $1,900 above the $3,850 floor, $1,950 under the $7,700 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 51.
Sorted by median cost, Kansas is 46th of 51 for a dui / dwi, placing it in the lowest-cost quarter of the table: $1,700 and 23% below the $7,450 midpoint, with 5 states recording a lower median still.
North Dakota ($5,800) and Louisiana ($5,700) bracket Kansas inside a $100 window — narrow enough that 46th is close to arbitrary.
4 tracked states — North Dakota, Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky among them — record a median within three percent of Kansas's $5,750. The figure sits in the densest part of the dui / dwi distribution, where a rank change of several rows costs only a few hundred dollars.
The two rankings disagree sharply. Kansas attorneys sit 38th of 51 on hourly rate at $230 an hour, but the state is only 46th on total dui / dwi cost — the recorded matters resolve in fewer billed hours than the rate alone would produce.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Kansas |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | Nebraska | $6,250 | +$500 |
| 41 | Mississippi | $6,200 | +$450 |
| 42 | West Virginia | $6,200 | +$450 |
| 43 | South Dakota | $6,000 | +$250 |
| 44 | Alabama | $5,950 | +$200 |
| 45 | North Dakota | $5,800 | +$50 |
| 46 | Kansas | $5,750 | — |
| 47 | Louisiana | $5,700 | −$50 |
| 48 | Arkansas | $5,600 | −$150 |
| 49 | Kentucky | $5,600 | −$150 |
| 50 | Oklahoma | $5,550 | −$200 |
| 51 | South Carolina | $5,550 | −$200 |
$50 up or $50 down moves Kansas a row. A ten percent revision to the underlying figure would cross 12 rows in total — 7 up, 5 down — so the rank reads better as a band than as a precise place.
Climbing five places would mean passing Mississippi, West Virginia, South Dakota, Alabama, North Dakota and adding $450 to the $5,750 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, South Carolina: $200.
$4,050 short of Washington ($9,800), $200 clear of South Carolina ($5,550).
The $5,750 median divided by the $230 median rate implies roughly 25 billable hours. The peer median is 27 hours: Kansas reaches its total in 2 fewer implied hours, because the rate rather than the workload carries more of it.
The escalation is comparatively shallow on hours. A complex dui / dwi costs 5.3x a simple one in Kansas, but the implied workload only rises 3.4x — 15 hours at $185 becomes 51 hours at $290 — meaning the senior-rate premium of 1.57x carries an unusually large share of the increase.
The Kansas moderate band spans $3,850 to $7,700 — $3,850 — which is $1,150 narrower than the peer-median band of $5,000, so quoted dui / dwi figures cluster more tightly here than in most tracked states. End to end that is 17 hours at $230.
Spread across the 3-6 months the sources record for a moderate matter, the $5,750 median works out to roughly $1,278 a month. A complex dui / dwi runs longer, at 6-12 months, but it also runs hotter — about $1,656 a month — so the extra cost is not simply the extra calendar time.
By implied hours Kansas falls to 50th of 51 at 25 hours, 4 places below its 46th on cost — the dui / dwi total arriving on less recorded work.
94% up the $3,850–$7,700 band sits the $7,450 table midpoint, buying 32 hours at $230 against the 25 the local dui / dwi median implies — 7 hours apart.
| Measure | Kansas | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $5,750 | 46th |
| Hourly median | $230 | 38th |
| Implied hours | 25 | 50th |
| Simple median | $2,800 | 43rd |
| Complex median | $14,900 | 36th |
$230 an hour puts Kansas between Tennessee ($245) and Mississippi ($230) — not the dui / dwi cost pairing.
5 other states record exactly $230 — Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota among them — so rate is a coarse instrument in this dui / dwi table.
$5,750 buys 31 hours at $185, 25 at $230, 20 at $290.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 36 | Montana | $245 |
| 37 | Tennessee | $245 |
| 38 | Kansas | $230 |
| 39 | Mississippi | $230 |
| 40 | Nebraska | $230 |
Kansas moves up the table as complexity rises: 43rd at the simple tier, 46th at moderate, 36th at complex, a 7-place climb. The state's position on the headline moderate figure understates where it sits once a matter is contested.
$2,800 is 43rd of 51 on a straightforward dui / dwi, under Alabama ($2,800) and over Louisiana ($2,800), $600 under the $3,400 tier midpoint.
$14,900 is 36th of 51 once contested, between Florida ($14,950) and Wyoming ($14,800), $1,450 off the $16,350 tier midpoint.
The lower two bands run into each other — the simple tier tops out at $4,000 against a moderate floor of $3,850 — but there is a clear gap of $1,050 between the moderate ceiling of $7,700 and the complex floor of $8,750. In Kansas the jump into contested work is a step, not a slope.
| Tier | Kansas | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $2,800 | 43rd | $3,400 | 15 |
| moderate | $5,750 | 46th | $7,450 | 25 |
| complex | $14,900 | 36th | $16,350 | 51 |
$2,800 puts Kansas 43rd of 51 on straightforward matters, 3 up on its moderate position, and $600 (18%) under the $3,400 tier midpoint.
15 implied hours at $185: 60% of the moderate tier's 25, over 1-3 months.
Alabama ($2,800) and Louisiana ($2,800) bracket it — a $0 window.
5 states record a simple-tier median within three percent of $2,800, denser than the 4 around the moderate row.
$14,900 puts Kansas 36th of 51 on contested matters, 10 up on its moderate position, and $1,450 (9%) under the $16,350 tier midpoint.
51 implied hours at $290: 204% of the moderate tier's 25, over 6-12 months.
Florida ($14,950) and Wyoming ($14,800) bracket it — a $150 window.
7 states record a complex-tier median within three percent of $14,900, denser than the 4 around the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 41 | North Dakota | $2,900 |
| 42 | Alabama | $2,800 |
| 43 | Kansas | $2,800 |
| 44 | Louisiana | $2,800 |
| 45 | Mississippi | $2,800 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 34 | North Dakota | $15,250 |
| 35 | Florida | $14,950 |
| 36 | Kansas | $14,900 |
| 37 | Wyoming | $14,800 |
| 38 | Iowa | $14,500 |
$5,750 ranks a dui / dwi 3rd of 8 in Kansas, under Divorce, over Personal Injury. At 71% of Criminal Defense ($8,150).
The state does not rank uniformly. Kansas is 23rd of 51 for Personal Injury but 48th for Divorce, a 25-place spread across the matter types tracked here, so its 46th on dui / dwi says little about what the other lines cost.
Kansas is not equally priced in every practice area. Measured against each matter's own midpoint, Bankruptcy runs 15% below its own midpoint while Estate Planning / Probate runs 25% below its own midpoint — a 10-point spread between the extremes.
The largest tracked median in Kansas is 5.3x the smallest, effectively the 5.1x that the typical state records: the internal spread is ordinary even where the levels are not.
0 of 6 matter types rank Kansas in the upper third, 5 in the lower, 1 between; dui / dwi is 46th.
In percentile terms it sits at the 10th percentile of the 51 tracked states.
| Matter | Simple | Moderate | Complex | Hours | Rank | vs mid | Above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criminal Defense | $2,800 | $8,150 | $22,550 | 33 | 44th | −20% | Idaho |
| Divorce | $2,500 | $6,850 | $19,100 | 27 | 48th | −20% | North Carolina |
| DUI / DWI | $2,800 | $5,750 | $14,900 | 25 | 46th | −23% | North Dakota |
| Personal Injury | $1,200 | $4,250 | $11,650 | — | 23rd | −18% | Idaho |
| Immigration | $1,800 | $3,800 | $8,850 | 17 | 44th | −20% | West Virginia |
| Bankruptcy | $1,250 | $3,050 | $3,850 | 15 | — | −15% | — |
| Real Estate Closing | $800 | $1,700 | $3,850 | 8 | 39th | −24% | Nebraska |
| Estate Planning / Probate | $450 | $1,550 | $5,300 | 7 | — | −25% | — |
Simple tier. $2,800 ÷ $185 = about 15 hours, spread over 1-3 months at roughly $1,400 a month. The $2,950 step to the moderate tier is 10 more hours at that rate.
Work against price. $5,750 to $14,900 is a $9,150 step, mostly work: 26 more hours at $230 is $5,980, while moving to $290 across 51 hours adds $3,060. Work carries 66%.
Borrowing the wrong row. Louisiana ($5,700) is $50 light, North Dakota ($5,800) is $50 heavy — but the $7,450 table midpoint is out by $1,700, 34x the neighbour error.
Both ends, in time. $3,850 is 17 hours at $230; $7,700 is 33. Over the 3-6 months recorded for a moderate dui / dwi, that is 4 to 7 hours a month — the difference between an occasional file review and continuous work.
Contested against simple. At Kansas's own recorded figures, $14,900 buys 5.3 matters at the $2,800 simple median — or, counted in time, 51 implied hours against 15, a factor of 3.4 — the two ratios differing because the rate rises with the tier.
Verified June 2026. Filing fees change on the Kansascourt's own schedule; billing models are covered in the legal fees guide.
This tool provides general cost estimates for informational purposes only. It is NOT legal advice. Costs vary significantly based on individual circumstances. Consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction for specific guidance.