Wyoming personal representative compensation
Ordinary fees apply to the amount of the decedent’s probate estate accounted for: 10% of the first $1,000, 5% through $5,000, 3% through $20,000, and 2% above. The court may adjust for unusual circumstances and allow just and reasonable extraordinary-service fees.
Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch September 15, 2026.
In Wyoming, the personal representative (executor) is the person the court appoints, or the will nominates, to administer the estate. Wyoming compensation is governed by state statute and, where the statute permits, by the terms of the will or a court order, so the lawful Wyoming fee is whatever those authorities set — not a national rule of thumb.
The calculator above applies Wyoming's reviewed statutory rule to the compensable estate value you enter. The Wyoming figure does not include extraordinary fees — services beyond routine administration (such as litigation, tax elections, or real-property management) that the court may approve separately on top of the ordinary compensation.
In Wyoming, the compensable amount is measured against the figures shown in the estate's court accounting, so two Wyoming estates with the same headline size can produce different lawful fees when what they are made of differs. Enter the figure that matches that basis rather than the gross number on the first account statement, or the Wyoming result will not reflect the rule the statute actually applies.
If the Wyoming will names a specific compensation amount or formula, that term controls unless a beneficiary or the representative petitions the court for modification. When no will exists, or the will is silent on the point, the Wyoming statutory rule becomes the presumptive measure of reasonable compensation for the work.
Wyoming compensation map
A percentage is not a fee answer until its base is known. This Wyoming map identifies the compensation standard and the accounting figure it uses, while keeping court approval and extraordinary work outside an invented total.
| Question | Recorded Wyoming answer | Carry into the case |
|---|---|---|
| What route is being screened? | Summary procedure for distribution of personal or real property | Confirm that the will, prior appointment, family facts, and asset titles fit this route. |
| What property and basis count? | probate property within the rule's stated scope; net of enforceable liens and encumbrances. | Keep real property, liens, beneficiary transfers, and survivorship transfers classified separately. |
| What is the amount screen? | $400,000 | Use the counted property, not a bank-balance shortcut. |
| What is the time or deadline record? | 30 days after death; Wyoming has separate publication and mailed-notice deadlines. Published claims generally run three months from first publication; a mailed claimant receives the later of that date or 30 days after mailing. Multiple triggers make one days value misleading. | Keep the event that starts each clock with the date; do not combine separate periods into one number. |
| What does the cost record establish? | $160 is the recorded statewide amount. | Ask the District Court about local surcharges, copies, publication, bond, and later filings. |
| What does compensation use? | Ordinary fees apply to the amount of the decedent’s probate estate accounted for: 10% of the first $1,000, 5% through $5,000, 3% through $20,000, and 2% above. The court may adjust for unusual circumstances and allow just and reasonable extraordinary-service fees. The relevant base is the estate accounting. | Keep the will, task log, receipts, and accounting base together; extraordinary work is separate. |
Compensation record
This is the registry view of the compensation rule, separate from the calculator result. It shows whether a rate schedule exists and what accounting base the schedule names. A blank band is not permission to borrow a percentage from another state.
| Compensation band | Rate | Read with |
|---|---|---|
| Up to $1,000 | 10% | the estate accounting |
| The next band through $5,000 | 5% | the estate accounting |
| The next band through $20,000 | 3% | the estate accounting |
| Above the prior band | 2% | the estate accounting |
Case-file context
A route answer is easier to use when the facts that can change it stay in the same record. These are the reviewed Wyoming descriptions adjacent to this page\'s main question; they are not a substitute for the source quotations or the receiving court\'s instructions.
Wyoming’s District Court may summarily distribute both personal and real property, including mineral interests, under a $400,000 net-of-liens ceiling.
After 30 days, distributees may apply in District Court for summary distribution when the entire estate, including personal and real property and mineral interests, does not exceed $400,000 less liens and encumbrances.
The district-court clerk charges a $160 original filing fee for civil matters, including $40 for court automation and $10 for indigent civil legal services.
$160 is the recorded statewide amount.
Wyoming has separate publication and mailed-notice deadlines. Published claims generally run three months from first publication; a mailed claimant receives the later of that date or 30 days after mailing. Multiple triggers make one days value misleading.
Court-material note: Wyoming Judicial Branch probate-help and court-locator URLs returned HTTP 403 during verification, so no nonresolving resource is published. Wyoming's summary-distribution route under Wyo. Stat. 2-1-205 is started by an application the applicant drafts, so there is no official statewide small-estate form to download. The Wyoming Judicial Branch probate-help and court-locator pages returned HTTP 403 to automated requests during this review, so no court link is published here rather than one this site could not prove reachable. Ask the District Court clerk in the county of residence for local requirements.
Arithmetic illustration
The recorded Wyoming ceiling is $400,000, and it is tested against probate property within the rule's stated scope, on a basis this site records as net of enforceable liens and encumbrances. Counted that way, $300,000 sits below the Wyoming figure and $500,000 sits above it. Both are comparisons to a published number rather than legal outcomes: two estates holding the same total can land on opposite sides of this line, because what Wyoming counts and how it values it are decided before the comparison is made.
| Illustrative counted amount | Comparison to the Wyoming ceiling | What it does not decide |
|---|---|---|
| $300,000 | Below $400,000 | Title, liens, waiting period, appointment, or creditor duties |
| $500,000 | Above $400,000 | Whether another statutory route or court process applies |
Next evidence to collect
Official material
Wyoming publishes no court artifact in this registry. Wyoming Judicial Branch probate-help and court-locator URLs returned HTTP 403 during verification, so no nonresolving resource is published.
Wyoming Judicial Branch probate-help and court-locator URLs returned HTTP 403 during verification, so no nonresolving resource is published.
Wyoming's summary-distribution route under Wyo. Stat. 2-1-205 is started by an application the applicant drafts, so there is no official statewide small-estate form to download. The Wyoming Judicial Branch probate-help and court-locator pages returned HTTP 403 to automated requests during this review, so no court link is published here rather than one this site could not prove reachable. Ask the District Court clerk in the county of residence for local requirements.
Source trail
The rate is only half of the answer; the other half is the number the rate is applied to, and in Wyoming that number is specific. The reviewed rule measures compensation against the amount of the decedent's probate estate accounted for. Includes inventory values adjusted for reappraisal or sale, estate accretions, and net business income, with stated deductions.
Entering a different figure — the gross value on a bank statement, the net estate after debts, or the total that passed to the heirs — produces a Wyoming number the rule does not support, even when the percentage is applied correctly. The base is the part most often got wrong.
Each band applies its own rate to its own slice of the amount of the decedent's probate estate accounted for, and the compensation is the sum of the slices — not a single rate on the whole figure. Worked at two representative amounts, the Wyoming schedule breaks down as follows.
| Band of the base | Rate | Compensation |
|---|---|---|
| on the first $1,000 | 10% | $100 |
| on the next $4,000 | 5% | $200 |
| on the next $15,000 | 3% | $450 |
| on the balance above $20,000 | 2% | $5,600 |
| Total on this base | $6,350 | |
| Band of the base | Rate | Compensation |
|---|---|---|
| on the first $1,000 | 10% | $100 |
| on the next $4,000 | 5% | $200 |
| on the next $15,000 | 3% | $450 |
| on the balance above $20,000 | 2% | $15,600 |
| Total on this base | $16,350 | |
These figures are illustrations of the schedule at two round numbers, not a quote for any real estate: the operative amount depends on the actual amount of the decedent's probate estate accounted for the Wyoming accounting establishes, and a court may allow more for extraordinary services or less where a will or agreement fixes a different figure.
Each legal input links to the government source reviewed for this page. Source text can change; confirm the current rule before acting.
Reviewed source note: The fees shall be computed on the basis of the amount of the decedent's probate estate accounted for as follows: (i) For the first one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) of the basis, ten percent (10%); (ii) For all sums over one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) but not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) of the basis, five percent (5%); (iii) For all sums over five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) but not exceeding twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) of the basis, three percent (3%); (iv) For all sums over twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) of the basis, two percent (2%).