How Much Does a DUI / DWI Cost in Oklahoma?

Oklahoma carries 3 rows — simple, $1,450–$3,700 at $110–$225/hr over 1-3 months; moderate, $3,700–$7,400 at $150–$280/hr over 3-6 months; complex, $7,850–$19,600 at $185–$335/hr over 6-12 months — on 4 shared citations. Those figures place it in the lower quarter of the table.

$5,550 is a median, not the middle of the band — $1,850 above the $3,700 floor, $1,850 under the $7,400 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 51.

Sorted by median cost, Oklahoma is 50th of 51 for a dui / dwi, placing it in the lowest-cost quarter of the table: $1,900 and 26% below the $7,450 midpoint, with 1 states recording a lower median still.

Kentucky ($5,600) and South Carolina ($5,550) bracket Oklahoma inside a $50 window — narrow enough that 50th is close to arbitrary.

4 tracked states — Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky, South Carolina among them — record a median within three percent of Oklahoma's $5,550. 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 measures nearly agree: 48th of 51 on hourly rate at $205 an hour, 50th on total cost, 2 places apart.

Within ten percent of the Oklahoma figure there are 7 states above and only 0 below. $50 up or $0 down moves Oklahoma a row, which means the ranking has far more room to improve than to slip: the dui / dwi field is dense overhead and sparse underneath.

Climbing five places would mean passing North Dakota, Kansas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky and adding $250 to the $5,550 recorded here.

Five places down means passing under South Carolina: $0.

$4,250 short of Washington ($9,800), $0 clear of South Carolina ($5,550).

The $5,550 median divided by the $205 median rate implies roughly 27 billable hours. That rounds to the same 27 hours as the peer median, so on workload Oklahoma is indistinguishable from the middle of the table at this precision.

The escalation is comparatively shallow on hours. A complex dui / dwi costs 5.1x a simple one in Oklahoma, but the implied workload only rises 3.2x — 16 hours at $165 becomes 51 hours at $260 — meaning the senior-rate premium of 1.58x carries an unusually large share of the increase.

The Oklahoma moderate band spans $3,700 to $7,400 — $3,700 — which is $1,300 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 18 hours at $205.

Spread across the 3-6 months the sources record for a moderate matter, the $5,550 median works out to roughly $1,233 a month. A complex dui / dwi runs longer, at 6-12 months, but it also runs hotter — about $1,478 a month — so the extra cost is not simply the extra calendar time.

A third ordering: by implied hours Oklahoma is 27th of 51 at 27 hours, 23 places above its cost rank of 50th on cost — more work behind the same dui / dwi money.

The $7,450 table midpoint sits above the $7,400 ceiling recorded for Oklahoma, so the typical tracked state's figure is higher than anything in this state's moderate band.

$205 an hour puts Oklahoma between Louisiana ($215) and Alabama ($200) — not the dui / dwi cost pairing.

No other tracked state records $205 as its median rate, so the figure identifies Oklahoma on its own within this dataset.

$5,550 buys 34 hours at $165, 27 at $205, 21 at $260.

Oklahoma moves up the table as complexity rises: 49th at the simple tier, 50th at moderate, 45th at complex, a 4-place climb. The state's position on the headline moderate figure understates where it sits once a matter is contested.

$2,600 is 49th of 51 on a straightforward dui / dwi, under Kentucky ($2,650) and over South Carolina ($2,550), $800 under the $3,400 tier midpoint.

$13,300 is 45th of 51 once contested, between New Mexico ($13,300) and Louisiana ($13,150), $3,050 off the $16,350 tier midpoint.

The lower two bands run into each other — the simple tier tops out at $3,700 against a moderate floor of $3,700 — but there is a clear gap of $450 between the moderate ceiling of $7,400 and the complex floor of $7,850. In Oklahoma the jump into contested work is a step, not a slope.

$2,600 puts Oklahoma 49th of 51 on straightforward matters, 1 up on its moderate position, and $800 (24%) under the $3,400 tier midpoint.

16 implied hours at $165: 59% of the moderate tier's 27, over 1-3 months.

Kentucky ($2,650) and South Carolina ($2,550) bracket it — a $100 window.

2 states sit within three percent of the $2,600 here, against 4 at the moderate row.

$13,300 puts Oklahoma 45th of 51 on contested matters, 5 up on its moderate position, and $3,050 (19%) under the $16,350 tier midpoint.

51 implied hours at $260: 189% of the moderate tier's 27, over 6-12 months.

New Mexico ($13,300) and Louisiana ($13,150) bracket it — a $150 window.

7 states record a complex-tier median within three percent of $13,300, denser than the 4 around the moderate row.

$5,550 ranks a dui / dwi 3rd of 8 in Oklahoma, under Divorce, over Personal Injury. At 72% of Criminal Defense ($7,700).

Across practice areas Oklahoma ranges from 41st of 51 for Bankruptcy to 50th for DUI / DWI — a 9-place spread, with its 50th on dui / dwi inside it.

Oklahoma is not equally priced in every practice area. Measured against each matter's own midpoint, Divorce runs 15% below its own midpoint while Estate Planning / Probate runs 28% below its own midpoint — a 13-point spread between the extremes.

The largest tracked median in Oklahoma is 5.1x the smallest, effectively the 5.1x that the typical state records: the internal spread is ordinary even where the levels are not.

All 7 tracked matter types place Oklahoma in the lower third of their tables, the dui / dwi figure included.

In percentile terms it sits at the 2th percentile of the 51 tracked states.

Simple tier. $2,600 ÷ $165 = about 16 hours, spread over 1-3 months at roughly $1,300 a month. The $2,950 step to the moderate tier is 11 more hours at that rate.

Work against price. $5,550 to $13,300 is a $7,750 step, mostly work: 24 more hours at $205 is $4,920, while moving to $260 across 51 hours adds $2,805. Work carries 64%.

Borrowing the wrong row. South Carolina ($5,550) is $0 light, Kentucky ($5,600) is $50 heavy — but the $7,450 table midpoint is out by $1,900, 38x the neighbour error.

Both ends, in time. $3,700 is 18 hours at $205; $7,400 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 Oklahoma's own recorded figures, $13,300 buys 5.1 matters at the $2,600 simple median — or, counted in time, 51 implied hours against 16, a factor of 3.2 — the two ratios differing because the rate rises with the tier.