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2026 cost estimates for dui / dwi in Oregon, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a dui / dwi in Oregon costs on average $7,950, typically $5,300-$10,600 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $215 to $400 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 | $2,150 | $3,800 | $5,400 | 1-3 months |
| Moderate | $5,300 | $7,950 | $10,600 | 3-6 months |
| Complex | $10,250 | $17,400 | $25,600 | 6-12 months |
Last verified: June 2026
$215 – $400/ hour
Median: $295/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 Oregon. The recorded median total is $7,950, with reported quotes clustering between $5,300 and $10,600. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $1,200–$3,500, which leaves roughly $4,450–$6,750 of the Oregon 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 $7,950, the median dui / dwi cost in Oregon runs 7% above the $7,403 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Oregon carries 3 rows — simple, $2,150–$5,400 at $160–$320/hr over 1-3 months; moderate, $5,300–$10,600 at $215–$400/hr over 3-6 months; complex, $10,250–$25,600 at $270–$480/hr over 6-12 months — on 4 shared citations. They put it above the midpoint, short of the top quarter.
$7,950 is a median, not the middle of the band — $2,650 above the $5,300 floor, $2,650 under the $10,600 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 51.
At 20th of 51, Oregon sits above the midpoint of the dui / dwi table: $500 more than the $7,450 median state, or 7%, with 19 states recording a higher median.
Michigan ($7,950) and Illinois ($7,850) bracket Oregon inside a $100 window — narrow enough that 20th is close to arbitrary.
7 tracked states — Vermont, Massachusetts, California, Michigan among them — record a median within three percent of Oregon's $7,950. 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: 19th of 51 on hourly rate at $295 an hour, 20th on total cost, 1 place apart.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Oregon |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | Arizona | $8,250 | +$300 |
| 15 | Maryland | $8,250 | +$300 |
| 16 | Vermont | $8,150 | +$200 |
| 17 | Massachusetts | $8,050 | +$100 |
| 18 | California | $8,000 | +$50 |
| 19 | Michigan | $7,950 | −$0 |
| 20 | Oregon | $7,950 | — |
| 21 | Illinois | $7,850 | −$100 |
| 22 | Texas | $7,800 | −$150 |
| 23 | Utah | $7,750 | −$200 |
| 24 | Georgia | $7,700 | −$250 |
| 25 | Nevada | $7,450 | −$500 |
| 26 | Wisconsin | $7,450 | −$500 |
The 20th position is not a stable fact about Oregon: $0 up or $100 down moves Oregon a row, and a ten percent revision in either direction would cross 17 rows, 9 above and 8 below in near-equal numbers.
Climbing five places would mean passing Maryland, Vermont, Massachusetts, California, Michigan and adding $300 to the $7,950 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under Illinois, Texas, Utah, Georgia, Nevada: $500.
$1,850 short of Washington ($9,800), $2,400 clear of South Carolina ($5,550).
The $7,950 median divided by the $295 median rate implies roughly 27 billable hours. That rounds to the same 27 hours as the peer median, so on workload Oregon is indistinguishable from the middle of the table at this precision.
The escalation is comparatively shallow on hours. A complex dui / dwi costs 4.6x a simple one in Oregon, but the implied workload only rises 2.9x — 16 hours at $240 becomes 46 hours at $375 — meaning the senior-rate premium of 1.56x carries an unusually large share of the increase.
From $5,300 to $10,600 the moderate band is $5,300 wide, close to the $5,000 peer median. End to end that is 18 hours at $295.
Per month of elapsed time the two tiers are close: about $1,767 a month across the 3-6 months recorded for a moderate matter, and $1,933 a month across the 6-12 months recorded for a complex one.
By implied hours Oregon falls to 31st of 51 at 27 hours, 11 places below its 20th on cost — the dui / dwi total arriving on less recorded work.
41% up the $5,300–$10,600 band sits the $7,450 table midpoint, buying 25 hours at $295 against the 27 the local dui / dwi median implies — 2 hours apart.
| Measure | Oregon | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $7,950 | 20th |
| Hourly median | $295 | 19th |
| Implied hours | 27 | 31st |
| Simple median | $3,800 | 17th |
| Complex median | $17,400 | 22nd |
$295 an hour puts Oregon between Minnesota ($295) and Texas ($290) — not the dui / dwi cost pairing.
Illinois, Minnesota record the same $295: rate cannot separate them, totals do.
$7,950 buys 33 hours at $240, 27 at $295, 21 at $375.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 17 | Illinois | $295 |
| 18 | Minnesota | $295 |
| 19 | Oregon | $295 |
| 20 | Texas | $290 |
| 21 | Pennsylvania | $285 |
Ranked tier by tier, Oregon slides 5 places downward: 17th at the simple tier, 20th at moderate, 22nd at complex. Its headline moderate position sits between the two extremes rather than summarising them.
$3,800 is 17th of 51 on a straightforward dui / dwi, under Delaware ($3,800) and over Michigan ($3,750), $400 over the $3,400 tier midpoint.
$17,400 is 22nd of 51 once contested, between Nevada ($17,450) and Georgia ($17,000), $1,050 off the $16,350 tier midpoint.
The three bands are continuous in Oregon: the simple tier reaches $5,400 where the moderate tier starts at $5,300, and the moderate tier reaches $10,600 where the complex tier starts at $10,250. A single quoted figure can therefore belong to two different tiers, and the tier label — not the number — is what identifies which.
| Tier | Oregon | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $3,800 | 17th | $3,400 | 16 |
| moderate | $7,950 | 20th | $7,450 | 27 |
| complex | $17,400 | 22nd | $16,350 | 46 |
$3,800 puts Oregon 17th of 51 on straightforward matters, 3 up on its moderate position, and $400 (12%) over the $3,400 tier midpoint.
16 implied hours at $240: 59% of the moderate tier's 27, over 1-3 months.
Delaware ($3,800) and Michigan ($3,750) bracket it — a $50 window.
5 states sit within three percent of the $3,800 here, against 7 at the moderate row.
$17,400 drops Oregon to 22nd of 51 on contested matters, 2 below its moderate position and $1,050 (6%) over the $16,350 tier midpoint.
46 implied hours at $375: 170% of the moderate tier's 27, over 6-12 months.
Nevada ($17,450) and Georgia ($17,000) bracket it — a $450 window.
3 states sit within three percent of the $17,400 here, against 7 at the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 15 | New Jersey | $3,900 |
| 16 | Delaware | $3,800 |
| 17 | Oregon | $3,800 |
| 18 | Michigan | $3,750 |
| 19 | Pennsylvania | $3,700 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | Alaska | $17,600 |
| 21 | Nevada | $17,450 |
| 22 | Oregon | $17,400 |
| 23 | Georgia | $17,000 |
| 24 | Ohio | $16,700 |
$7,950 ranks a dui / dwi 3rd of 8 in Oregon, under Divorce, over Personal Injury. At 70% of Criminal Defense ($11,350).
The state does not rank uniformly. Oregon is 12th of 51 for Criminal Defense but 29th for Estate Planning / Probate, a 17-place spread across the matter types tracked here, so its 20th on dui / dwi says little about what the other lines cost.
Oregon is not equally priced in every practice area. Measured against each matter's own midpoint, Immigration runs 12% above its own midpoint while Estate Planning / Probate runs 6% below its own midpoint — a 18-point spread between the extremes.
Oregon's practice areas fan out more than most: its largest tracked median is 5.8x its smallest, against 5.1x for the typical state. Prices here are set matter by matter rather than by one statewide level.
2 of 7 matter types rank Oregon in the upper third, 0 in the lower, 5 between; dui / dwi is 20th.
In percentile terms it sits at the 62th percentile of the 51 tracked states.
| Matter | Simple | Moderate | Complex | Hours | Rank | vs mid | Above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criminal Defense | $3,650 | $11,350 | $35,300 | 35 | 12th | +11% | Utah |
| Divorce | $3,000 | $8,850 | $21,600 | 28 | 25th | +4% | Texas |
| DUI / DWI | $3,800 | $7,950 | $17,400 | 27 | 20th | +7% | Michigan |
| Personal Injury | $1,500 | $5,500 | $15,700 | — | — | +6% | — |
| Immigration | $2,100 | $5,300 | $12,550 | 18 | 20th | +12% | Maine |
| Bankruptcy | $1,650 | $3,550 | $5,150 | 13 | 25th | −1% | Michigan |
| Real Estate Closing | $1,150 | $2,450 | $4,450 | 9 | 12th | +10% | Minnesota |
| Estate Planning / Probate | $600 | $1,950 | $6,750 | 7 | 29th | −6% | Indiana |
Simple tier. $3,800 ÷ $240 = about 16 hours, spread over 1-3 months at roughly $1,900 a month. The $4,150 step to the moderate tier is 11 more hours at that rate.
Work against price. $7,950 to $17,400 is a $9,450 step, mostly work: 19 more hours at $295 is $5,605, while moving to $375 across 46 hours adds $3,680. Work carries 60%.
Borrowing the wrong row. Illinois ($7,850) is $100 light, Michigan ($7,950) is $0 heavy — but the $7,450 table midpoint is out by $500, 5x the neighbour error.
Both ends, in time. $5,300 is 18 hours at $295; $10,600 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 Oregon's own recorded figures, $17,400 buys 4.6 matters at the $3,800 simple median — or, counted in time, 46 implied hours against 16, a factor of 2.9 — the two ratios differing because the rate rises with the tier.
Verified June 2026. Filing fees change on the Oregoncourt'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.