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2026 cost estimates for dui / dwi in Nevada, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a dui / dwi in Nevada costs on average $7,450, typically $4,950-$9,900 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $200 to $375 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 | $2,000 | $3,500 | $5,000 | 1-3 months |
| Moderate | $4,950 | $7,450 | $9,900 | 3-6 months |
| Complex | $10,300 | $17,450 | $25,700 | 6-12 months |
Last verified: June 2026
$200 – $375/ hour
Median: $275/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 Nevada. The recorded median total is $7,450, with reported quotes clustering between $4,950 and $9,900. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $1,200–$3,500, which leaves roughly $3,950–$6,250 of the Nevada 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 $7,450, the median dui / dwi cost in Nevada is in line with the $7,403 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Nevada carries 3 rows — simple, $2,000–$5,000 at $150–$300/hr over 1-3 months; moderate, $4,950–$9,900 at $200–$375/hr over 3-6 months; complex, $10,300–$25,700 at $250–$450/hr over 6-12 months — on 4 shared citations. They put it below the midpoint of the table without reaching the bottom quarter.
$7,450 is a median, not the middle of the band — $2,500 above the $4,950 floor, $2,450 under the $9,900 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 51.
Nevada is the 25th of 51 tracked states by median dui / dwi cost, and its $7,450 figure lands within a percent of the $7,450 midpoint of that table — the rank is meaningful, the distance is not.
Georgia ($7,700) and Wisconsin ($7,450) bracket Nevada inside a $250 window — narrow enough that 25th is close to arbitrary.
Wisconsin, Wyoming record medians within three percent of Nevada's $7,450. A dui / dwi quote anywhere in that group is describing effectively the same market.
Ranked by hourly rate instead of by total, Nevada does not move: 25th on both measures, at $275 an hour. Rate and total are telling the same story here.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Nevada |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | Michigan | $7,950 | +$500 |
| 20 | Oregon | $7,950 | +$500 |
| 21 | Illinois | $7,850 | +$400 |
| 22 | Texas | $7,800 | +$350 |
| 23 | Utah | $7,750 | +$300 |
| 24 | Georgia | $7,700 | +$250 |
| 25 | Nevada | $7,450 | — |
| 26 | Wisconsin | $7,450 | −$0 |
| 27 | Wyoming | $7,450 | −$0 |
| 28 | Maine | $7,200 | −$250 |
| 29 | Florida | $7,150 | −$300 |
| 30 | Montana | $7,150 | −$300 |
| 31 | Pennsylvania | $6,950 | −$500 |
The 25th position is not a stable fact about Nevada: $250 up or $0 down moves Nevada a row, and a ten percent revision in either direction would cross 16 rows, 9 above and 7 below in near-equal numbers.
Climbing five places would mean passing Oregon, Illinois, Texas, Utah, Georgia and adding $500 to the $7,450 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under Wisconsin, Wyoming, Maine, Florida, Montana: $300.
$2,350 short of Washington ($9,800), $1,900 clear of South Carolina ($5,550).
The $7,450 median divided by the $275 median rate implies roughly 27 billable hours. That rounds to the same 27 hours as the peer median, so on workload Nevada is indistinguishable from the middle of the table at this precision.
The escalation is comparatively shallow on hours. A complex dui / dwi costs 5x a simple one in Nevada, but the implied workload only rises 3.1x — 16 hours at $225 becomes 50 hours at $350 — meaning the senior-rate premium of 1.56x carries an unusually large share of the increase.
From $4,950 to $9,900 the moderate band is $4,950 wide, close to the $5,000 peer median. End to end that is 18 hours at $275.
Spread across the 3-6 months the sources record for a moderate matter, the $7,450 median works out to roughly $1,656 a month. A complex dui / dwi runs longer, at 6-12 months, but it also runs hotter — about $1,939 a month — so the extra cost is not simply the extra calendar time.
Ranked by implied hours rather than money, Nevada is 25th of 51 at 27 hours, where cost and rate also put it.
51% up the $4,950–$9,900 band sits the $7,450 table midpoint, buying 27 hours at $275 against the 27 the local dui / dwi median implies — 0 hours apart.
| Measure | Nevada | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $7,450 | 25th |
| Hourly median | $275 | 25th |
| Implied hours | 27 | 25th |
| Simple median | $3,500 | 24th |
| Complex median | $17,450 | 21st |
$275 an hour puts Nevada between Wisconsin ($280) and Maine ($270) — not the dui / dwi cost pairing.
No other tracked state records $275 as its median rate, so the figure identifies Nevada on its own within this dataset.
$7,450 buys 33 hours at $225, 27 at $275, 21 at $350.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 23 | Arizona | $280 |
| 24 | Wisconsin | $280 |
| 25 | Nevada | $275 |
| 26 | Maine | $270 |
| 27 | Michigan | $270 |
The ranking barely moves across tiers — 24th at the simple tier, 25th at moderate, 21st at complex of 51 — so Nevada keeps roughly the same relative position whether the dui / dwi is straightforward or contested.
$3,500 is 24th of 51 on a straightforward dui / dwi, under Vermont ($3,600) and over Wisconsin ($3,450), $100 over the $3,400 tier midpoint.
$17,450 is 21st of 51 once contested, between Alaska ($17,600) and Oregon ($17,400), $1,100 off the $16,350 tier midpoint.
The lower two bands run into each other — the simple tier tops out at $5,000 against a moderate floor of $4,950 — but there is a clear gap of $400 between the moderate ceiling of $9,900 and the complex floor of $10,300. In Nevada the jump into contested work is a step, not a slope.
| Tier | Nevada | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $3,500 | 24th | $3,400 | 16 |
| moderate | $7,450 | 25th | $7,450 | 27 |
| complex | $17,450 | 21st | $16,350 | 50 |
$3,500 puts Nevada 24th of 51 on straightforward matters, 1 up on its moderate position, and $100 (3%) over the $3,400 tier midpoint.
16 implied hours at $225: 59% of the moderate tier's 27, over 1-3 months.
Vermont ($3,600) and Wisconsin ($3,450) bracket it — a $150 window.
3 states record a simple-tier median within three percent of $3,500, denser than the 2 around the moderate row.
$17,450 puts Nevada 21st of 51 on contested matters, 4 up on its moderate position, and $1,100 (7%) over the $16,350 tier midpoint.
50 implied hours at $350: 185% of the moderate tier's 27, over 6-12 months.
Alaska ($17,600) and Oregon ($17,400) bracket it — a $200 window.
3 states record a complex-tier median within three percent of $17,450, denser than the 2 around the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | Maine | $3,650 |
| 23 | Vermont | $3,600 |
| 24 | Nevada | $3,500 |
| 25 | Wisconsin | $3,450 |
| 26 | Texas | $3,400 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | Rhode Island | $18,100 |
| 20 | Alaska | $17,600 |
| 21 | Nevada | $17,450 |
| 22 | Oregon | $17,400 |
| 23 | Georgia | $17,000 |
$7,450 ranks a dui / dwi 3rd of 8 in Nevada, under Divorce, over Personal Injury. At 75% of Criminal Defense ($10,000).
Across practice areas Nevada ranges from 17th of 51 for Bankruptcy to 28th for Criminal Defense — a 11-place spread, with its 25th on dui / dwi inside it.
Nevada is not equally priced in every practice area. Measured against each matter's own midpoint, Immigration runs 13% above its own midpoint while Criminal Defense runs 2% below its own midpoint — a 15-point spread between the extremes.
The largest tracked median in Nevada is 4.8x the smallest, effectively the 5.1x that the typical state records: the internal spread is ordinary even where the levels are not.
1 of 7 matter types rank Nevada in the upper third, 0 in the lower, 6 between; dui / dwi is 25th.
In percentile terms it sits at the 52th percentile of the 51 tracked states.
| Matter | Simple | Moderate | Complex | Hours | Rank | vs mid | Above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criminal Defense | $3,850 | $10,000 | $31,900 | 33 | 28th | −2% | Georgia |
| Divorce | $2,850 | $8,950 | $23,250 | 30 | 23rd | +5% | Georgia |
| DUI / DWI | $3,500 | $7,450 | $17,450 | 27 | 25th | level | Georgia |
| Personal Injury | $1,600 | $5,400 | $16,000 | — | — | +4% | — |
| Immigration | $1,800 | $5,350 | $10,350 | 19 | 18th | +13% | Maryland |
| Bankruptcy | $1,500 | $3,800 | $4,650 | 15 | 17th | +6% | Maryland |
| Real Estate Closing | $1,000 | $2,300 | $4,800 | 9 | 20th | +3% | Maryland |
| Estate Planning / Probate | $550 | $2,100 | $5,600 | 8 | 21st | +1% | Maryland |
Simple tier. $3,500 ÷ $225 = about 16 hours, spread over 1-3 months at roughly $1,750 a month. The $3,950 step to the moderate tier is 11 more hours at that rate.
Work against price. $7,450 to $17,450 is a $10,000 step, mostly work: 23 more hours at $275 is $6,325, while moving to $350 across 50 hours adds $3,750. Work carries 63%.
Borrowing the wrong row. Budgeting from Wisconsin ($7,450) lands $0 under Nevada; from Georgia ($7,700), $250 over; from the $7,450 table midpoint, $0 out.
Both ends, in time. $4,950 is 18 hours at $275; $9,900 is 36. Over the 3-6 months recorded for a moderate dui / dwi, that is 4 to 8 hours a month — the difference between an occasional file review and continuous work.
Contested against simple. At Nevada's own recorded figures, $17,450 buys 5 matters at the $3,500 simple median — or, counted in time, 50 implied hours against 16, a factor of 3.1 — the two ratios differing because the rate rises with the tier.
Verified June 2026. Filing fees change on the Nevadacourt'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.