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2026 cost estimates for bankruptcy in Wyoming, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a bankruptcy in Wyoming costs on average $3,000, typically $2,150-$4,300 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $160 to $295 per hour. A moderate-complexity case typically takes 3-5 years to resolve. Common related costs include chapter 13 filing fee ($313) and credit counseling course ($25-$50).
Data verified: June 29, 2026
| Complexity | Low | Median | High | Typical Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simple | $900 | $1,350 | $2,200 | 3-4 months |
| Moderate | $2,150 | $3,000 | $4,300 | 3-5 years |
| Complex | $2,750 | $4,600 | $7,400 | 3-5 years |
Last verified: June 2026
$160 – $295/ hour
Median: $230/hr
3-5 years
For moderate complexity cases
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</script>Bankruptcy cost formation splits along the two most common filing types. Chapter 7 (liquidation) is a shorter federal process, so attorney fees are usually charged as a flat fee covering the whole case. Chapter 13 (repayment plan) requires the attorney to stay involved for the full 3-5 year repayment period, so the fee is higher and is often split into an upfront portion plus ongoing amounts paid through the repayment plan itself.
On top of the attorney fee, every filer pays a federal court filing fee (set by statute, the same nationwide regardless of state) plus mandatory credit counseling and debtor education course fees. Case complexity within either chapter — multiple creditors, contested exemptions, business assets, or a means-test dispute — adds attorney hours beyond the base flat fee, which is why complex-case costs run well above the simple-case median shown on this page.
Take a moderate-complexity bankruptcy matter in Wyoming. The recorded median total is $3,000, with reported quotes clustering between $2,150 and $4,300. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $363–$413, which leaves roughly $2,587–$2,637 of the Wyoming median as professional time — the part that differs between quotes. One further recorded fee is not itemised above and is not in that total.
At $3,000, the median bankruptcy cost in Wyoming runs 14% below the $3,479 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Wyoming carries 3 rows — simple, $900–$2,200 at $135–$250/hr over 3-4 months; moderate, $2,150–$4,300 at $160–$295/hr over 3-5 years; complex, $2,750–$7,400 at $185–$365/hr over 3-5 years — on 5 shared citations. Those figures place it in the lower quarter of the table.
$3,000 is a median, not the middle of the band — $850 above the $2,150 floor, $1,300 under the $4,300 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 47.
Sorted by median cost, Wyoming is 37th of 47 for a bankruptcy, placing it in the lowest-cost quarter of the table: $600 and 17% below the $3,600 midpoint, with 10 states recording a lower median still.
South Carolina ($3,050) and Tennessee ($2,950) bracket Wyoming inside a $100 window — narrow enough that 37th is close to arbitrary.
South Carolina, Tennessee record medians within three percent of Wyoming's $3,000. A bankruptcy quote anywhere in that group is describing effectively the same market.
The two rankings disagree sharply. Wyoming attorneys sit 31st of 47 on hourly rate at $230 an hour, but the state is only 37th on total bankruptcy cost — the recorded matters resolve in fewer billed hours than the rate alone would produce.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Wyoming |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | Florida | $3,150 | +$150 |
| 32 | North Carolina | $3,150 | +$150 |
| 33 | Georgia | $3,100 | +$100 |
| 34 | Indiana | $3,100 | +$100 |
| 35 | North Dakota | $3,100 | +$100 |
| 36 | South Carolina | $3,050 | +$50 |
| 37 | Wyoming | $3,000 | — |
| 38 | Tennessee | $2,950 | −$50 |
| 39 | Mississippi | $2,900 | −$100 |
| 40 | West Virginia | $2,900 | −$100 |
| 41 | Oklahoma | $2,800 | −$200 |
| 42 | New Mexico | $2,700 | −$300 |
| 43 | Louisiana | $2,650 | −$350 |
Within ten percent of the Wyoming figure there are 8 states above and only 5 below. $50 up or $50 down moves Wyoming a row, which means the ranking has far more room to improve than to slip: the bankruptcy field is dense overhead and sparse underneath.
Climbing five places would mean passing North Carolina, Georgia, Indiana, North Dakota, South Carolina and adding $150 to the $3,000 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under Tennessee, Mississippi, West Virginia, Oklahoma, New Mexico: $300.
$1,400 short of Hawaii ($4,400), $650 clear of Kentucky ($2,350).
At $230 an hour, the $3,000 median represents about 13 hours of attorney time — a matter measured in days of work, not weeks. The peer median is 14 hours: Wyoming reaches its total in 1 fewer implied hours, because the rate rather than the workload carries more of it.
The escalation is comparatively shallow on hours. A complex bankruptcy costs 3.4x a simple one in Wyoming, but the implied workload only rises 2.4x — 7 hours at $185 becomes 17 hours at $275 — meaning the senior-rate premium of 1.49x carries an unusually large share of the increase.
The Wyoming moderate band spans $2,150 to $4,300 — $2,150 — which is $400 narrower than the peer-median band of $2,550, so quoted bankruptcy figures cluster more tightly here than in most tracked states. End to end that is 9 hours at $230.
By implied hours Wyoming falls to 39th of 47 at 13 hours, 2 places below its 37th on cost — the bankruptcy total arriving on less recorded work.
67% up the $2,150–$4,300 band sits the $3,600 table midpoint, buying 16 hours at $230 against the 13 the local bankruptcy median implies — 3 hours apart.
| Measure | Wyoming | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $3,000 | 37th |
| Hourly median | $230 | 31st |
| Implied hours | 13 | 39th |
| Simple median | $1,350 | 31st |
| Complex median | $4,600 | 30th |
$230 an hour puts Wyoming between Ohio ($230) and Idaho ($220) — not the bankruptcy cost pairing.
Ohio records the same $230: rate cannot separate them, totals do.
$3,000 buys 16 hours at $185, 13 at $230, 11 at $275.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 29 | Georgia | $240 |
| 30 | Ohio | $230 |
| 31 | Wyoming | $230 |
| 32 | Idaho | $220 |
| 33 | Indiana | $220 |
The ranking barely moves across tiers — 31st at the simple tier, 37th at moderate, 30th at complex of 47 — so Wyoming keeps roughly the same relative position whether the bankruptcy is straightforward or contested.
$1,350 is 31st of 47 on a straightforward bankruptcy, under Florida ($1,400) and over Georgia ($1,300), $150 under the $1,500 tier midpoint.
$4,600 is 30th of 47 once contested, between Nevada ($4,650) and Missouri ($4,500), $500 off the $5,100 tier midpoint.
The three bands are continuous in Wyoming: the simple tier reaches $2,200 where the moderate tier starts at $2,150, and the moderate tier reaches $4,300 where the complex tier starts at $2,750. A single quoted figure can therefore belong to two different tiers, and the tier label — not the number — is what identifies which.
| Tier | Wyoming | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $1,350 | 31st | $1,500 | 7 |
| moderate | $3,000 | 37th | $3,600 | 13 |
| complex | $4,600 | 30th | $5,100 | 17 |
$1,350 puts Wyoming 31st of 47 on straightforward matters, 6 up on its moderate position, and $150 (10%) under the $1,500 tier midpoint.
7 implied hours at $185: 54% of the moderate tier's 13, over 3-4 months.
Florida ($1,400) and Georgia ($1,300) bracket it — a $100 window.
Nothing else sits within three percent of the $1,350 here, against 2 at the moderate tier.
$4,600 puts Wyoming 30th of 47 on contested matters, 7 up on its moderate position, and $500 (10%) under the $5,100 tier midpoint.
17 implied hours at $275: 131% of the moderate tier's 13, over 3-5 years.
Nevada ($4,650) and Missouri ($4,500) bracket it — a $150 window.
4 states record a complex-tier median within three percent of $4,600, denser than the 2 around the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 29 | Michigan | $1,450 |
| 30 | Florida | $1,400 |
| 31 | Wyoming | $1,350 |
| 32 | Georgia | $1,300 |
| 33 | Louisiana | $1,300 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 28 | Texas | $4,800 |
| 29 | Nevada | $4,650 |
| 30 | Wyoming | $4,600 |
| 31 | Missouri | $4,500 |
| 32 | North Carolina | $4,500 |
In Wyoming a bankruptcy is 6th of 8 at $3,000, between Immigration and Real Estate Closing. At 32% of Criminal Defense ($9,450).
The state does not rank uniformly. Wyoming is 19th of 47 for Personal Injury but 37th for Bankruptcy, a 18-place spread across the matter types tracked here, so its 37th on bankruptcy says little about what the other lines cost.
Wyoming is not equally priced in every practice area. Measured against each matter's own midpoint, DUI / DWI sits on its own midpoint while Bankruptcy runs 17% below its own midpoint — a 17-point spread between the extremes.
The largest tracked median in Wyoming is 5x the smallest, effectively the 5.1x that the typical state records: the internal spread is ordinary even where the levels are not.
0 of 8 matter types rank Wyoming in the upper third, 1 in the lower, 7 between; bankruptcy is 37th.
In percentile terms it sits at the 22th percentile of the 47 tracked states.
| Matter | Simple | Moderate | Complex | Hours | Rank | vs mid | Above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criminal Defense | $3,450 | $9,450 | $29,100 | 34 | 29th | −7% | Nevada |
| Divorce | $2,500 | $8,250 | $21,950 | 30 | 29th | −4% | Wisconsin |
| DUI / DWI | $3,150 | $7,450 | $14,800 | 30 | 27th | level | Wisconsin |
| Personal Injury | $1,500 | $4,850 | $14,150 | — | 19th | −7% | Utah |
| Immigration | $1,900 | $4,400 | $10,750 | 18 | 32nd | −7% | Ohio |
| Bankruptcy | $1,350 | $3,000 | $4,600 | 13 | 37th | −17% | South Carolina |
| Real Estate Closing | $850 | $2,150 | $3,800 | 9 | 26th | −3% | Indiana |
| Estate Planning / Probate | $600 | $1,900 | $5,700 | 8 | 30th | −8% | Oregon |
Simple tier. $1,350 ÷ $185 = about 7 hours, spread over 3-4 months at roughly $386 a month. The $1,650 step to the moderate tier is 6 more hours at that rate.
Work against price. $3,000 to $4,600 is a $1,600 step weighted toward price: 4 more hours at $230 is $920, but $275 across 17 hours adds $765 — 45% of it.
Borrowing the wrong row. Tennessee ($2,950) is $50 light, South Carolina ($3,050) is $50 heavy — but the $3,600 table midpoint is out by $600, 12x the neighbour error.
Contested against simple. At Wyoming's own recorded figures, $4,600 buys 3.4 matters at the $1,350 simple median — or, counted in time, 17 implied hours against 7, a factor of 2.4 — the two ratios differing because the rate rises with the tier.
Verified June 2026. Filing fees change on the Wyomingcourt'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.