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2026 cost estimates for criminal defense in Wyoming, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a criminal defense in Wyoming costs on average $9,450, typically $4,700-$14,200 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $185 to $365 per hour. A moderate-complexity case typically takes 3-6 months to resolve. Common related costs include court filing fee ($100-$300) and bail bond fee (10% of bail).
Data verified: June 29, 2026
| Complexity | Low | Median | High | Typical Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simple | $1,950 | $3,450 | $4,900 | 1-3 months |
| Moderate | $4,700 | $9,450 | $14,200 | 3-6 months |
| Complex | $14,550 | $29,100 | $48,500 | 6-12+ months |
Last verified: June 2026
$185 – $365/ hour
Median: $275/hr
3-6 months
For moderate complexity cases
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</script>Criminal defense costs form primarily around charge severity and how the case resolves. A misdemeanor that ends in a straightforward plea negotiation is the least expensive scenario and is often billed as a flat fee, since the attorney can reasonably predict the hours involved. A felony charge, multiple counts, or a case that proceeds to trial multiplies the work substantially — pretrial motions, evidence review, witness preparation, and the trial itself — which is why most complex criminal defense engagements move to hourly billing or a large retainer with hourly drawdown.
Court-appointed public defenders are available at no direct cost to defendants who qualify financially, which is why the figures on this page reflect private attorney costs specifically. Private representation typically offers more attorney time per case and can be worth it for serious charges, but the actual price a defendant pays scales directly with case complexity and whether the matter is resolved pretrial or goes to trial.
Take a moderate-complexity criminal defense matter in Wyoming. The recorded median total is $9,450, with reported quotes clustering between $4,700 and $14,200. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $1,600–$7,300, which leaves roughly $2,150–$7,850 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 $9,450, the median criminal defense cost in Wyoming runs 5% below the $9,905 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Wyoming carries 3 rows — simple, $1,950–$4,900 at $135–$275/hr over 1-3 months; moderate, $4,700–$14,200 at $185–$365/hr over 3-6 months; complex, $14,550–$48,500 at $275–$455/hr over 6-12+ months — on 3 shared citations. They put it below the midpoint of the table without reaching the bottom quarter.
$9,450 is a median, not the middle of the band — $4,750 above the $4,700 floor, $4,750 under the $14,200 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 51.
Wyoming occupies the 29th row of 51 for a criminal defense. Its $9,450 median trails the $10,200 table midpoint by $750, which is 7% — close enough that a single firm's quote can straddle both figures.
Indiana is the nearest state below at $9,250 — $200 away — while the next state up, Nevada, is a wider $550 step at $10,000. Wyoming therefore sits at the top edge of a band rather than in the middle of one.
Indiana, Florida record medians within three percent of Wyoming's $9,450. A criminal defense quote anywhere in that group is describing effectively the same market.
Rate and total sit 2 places apart — 31st of 51 at $275 an hour against 29th on the criminal defense total — which is close enough to read as the same signal.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Wyoming |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | Pennsylvania | $10,450 | +$1,000 |
| 24 | Michigan | $10,400 | +$950 |
| 25 | Wisconsin | $10,400 | +$950 |
| 26 | Alaska | $10,200 | +$750 |
| 27 | Georgia | $10,150 | +$700 |
| 28 | Nevada | $10,000 | +$550 |
| 29 | Wyoming | $9,450 | — |
| 30 | Indiana | $9,250 | −$200 |
| 31 | Florida | $9,200 | −$250 |
| 32 | Ohio | $9,050 | −$400 |
| 33 | West Virginia | $9,000 | −$450 |
| 34 | Missouri | $8,950 | −$500 |
| 35 | South Carolina | $8,700 | −$750 |
The rows within ten percent are lopsided: 10 below Wyoming against 3 above. $550 up or $200 down moves Wyoming a row, so a downward revision would cost the state far more places than an equivalent upward one would gain — the 29th position is propped up by a thin criminal defense field above it and a crowded one beneath.
Climbing five places would mean passing Michigan, Wisconsin, Alaska, Georgia, Nevada and adding $950 to the $9,450 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under Indiana, Florida, Ohio, West Virginia, Missouri: $500.
$3,900 short of Hawaii ($13,350), $2,850 clear of Alabama ($6,600).
The $9,450 median divided by the $275 median rate implies roughly 34 billable hours. That rounds to the same 34 hours as the peer median, so on workload Wyoming is indistinguishable from the middle of the table at this precision.
The 8.4x step from the simple to the complex tier breaks down as 4.7x the hours against 1.78x the rate — 17 hours at $205 becomes 80 hours at $365. Hours dominate, but the rate contribution is large enough to notice.
From $4,700 to $14,200 the moderate band is $9,500 wide, close to the $10,200 peer median. End to end that is 35 hours at $275.
Across the 3-6 months the sources record for a moderate matter, the $9,450 median is roughly $2,100 a month of elapsed time.
A third ordering: by implied hours Wyoming is 19th of 51 at 34 hours, 10 places above its cost rank of 29th on cost — more work behind the same criminal defense money.
58% up the $4,700–$14,200 band sits the $10,200 table midpoint, buying 37 hours at $275 against the 34 the local criminal defense median implies — 3 hours apart.
| Measure | Wyoming | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $9,450 | 29th |
| Hourly median | $275 | 31st |
| Implied hours | 34 | 19th |
| Simple median | $3,450 | 25th |
| Complex median | $29,100 | 29th |
$275 an hour puts Wyoming between Ohio ($280) and Idaho ($265) — not the criminal defense cost pairing.
No other tracked state records $275 as its median rate, so the figure identifies Wyoming on its own within this dataset.
$9,450 buys 46 hours at $205, 34 at $275, 26 at $365.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 29 | Georgia | $285 |
| 30 | Ohio | $280 |
| 31 | Wyoming | $275 |
| 32 | Idaho | $265 |
| 33 | Indiana | $265 |
Ranked tier by tier, Wyoming slides 4 places downward: 25th at the simple tier, 29th at moderate, 29th at complex. Its headline moderate position sits between the two extremes rather than summarising them.
$3,450 is 25th of 51 on a straightforward criminal defense, under Illinois ($3,450) and over Arizona ($3,400), $50 over the $3,400 tier midpoint.
$29,100 is 29th of 51 once contested, between Florida ($29,300) and Michigan ($28,550), $800 off the $29,900 tier midpoint.
The lower two bands run into each other — the simple tier tops out at $4,900 against a moderate floor of $4,700 — but there is a clear gap of $350 between the moderate ceiling of $14,200 and the complex floor of $14,550. In Wyoming the jump into contested work is a step, not a slope.
| Tier | Wyoming | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $3,450 | 25th | $3,400 | 17 |
| moderate | $9,450 | 29th | $10,200 | 34 |
| complex | $29,100 | 29th | $29,900 | 80 |
$3,450 puts Wyoming 25th of 51 on straightforward matters, 4 up on its moderate position, and $50 (1%) over the $3,400 tier midpoint.
17 implied hours at $205: 50% of the moderate tier's 34, over 1-3 months.
Illinois ($3,450) and Arizona ($3,400) bracket it — a $50 window.
5 states record a simple-tier median within three percent of $3,450, denser than the 2 around the moderate row.
$29,100 keeps Wyoming at 29th on contested matters, the same place it holds on the headline figure, $800 (3%) under the $29,900 tier midpoint.
80 implied hours at $365: 235% of the moderate tier's 34, over 6-12+ months.
Florida ($29,300) and Michigan ($28,550) bracket it — a $750 window.
5 states record a complex-tier median within three percent of $29,100, denser than the 2 around the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 23 | Minnesota | $3,550 |
| 24 | Illinois | $3,450 |
| 25 | Wyoming | $3,450 |
| 26 | Arizona | $3,400 |
| 27 | Florida | $3,350 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 27 | Pennsylvania | $29,650 |
| 28 | Florida | $29,300 |
| 29 | Wyoming | $29,100 |
| 30 | Michigan | $28,550 |
| 31 | Tennessee | $26,900 |
Against the other matter types tracked in Wyoming, a criminal defense carries the largest median of the 8 at $9,450 — ahead of Divorce, the next line down.
The state does not rank uniformly. Wyoming is 19th of 51 for Personal Injury but 37th for Bankruptcy, a 18-place spread across the matter types tracked here, so its 29th on criminal defense 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; criminal defense is 29th.
In percentile terms it sits at the 44th percentile of the 51 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. $3,450 ÷ $205 = about 17 hours, spread over 1-3 months at roughly $1,725 a month. The $6,000 step to the moderate tier is 17 more hours at that rate.
Work against price. $9,450 to $29,100 is a $19,650 step, mostly work: 46 more hours at $275 is $12,650, while moving to $365 across 80 hours adds $7,200. Work carries 64%.
Borrowing the wrong row. Budgeting from Indiana ($9,250) lands $200 under Wyoming; from Nevada ($10,000), $550 over; from the $10,200 table midpoint, $750 out.
Both ends, in time. $4,700 is 17 hours at $275; $14,200 is 52. Over the 3-6 months recorded for a moderate criminal defense, that is 4 to 12 hours a month — the difference between an occasional file review and continuous work.
Contested against simple. At Wyoming's own recorded figures, $29,100 buys 8.4 matters at the $3,450 simple median — or, counted in time, 80 implied hours against 17, a factor of 4.7 — 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.