How much is a speeding ticket in Wisconsin?

The fine, tier by tier

• state-set state law or a statewide schedule fixes this number.
• cap only the statute sets a ceiling; the court picks the amount within it.
• court-set no statewide number exists — the local court’s schedule decides.

The mandatory add-ons

Already inside the totals above — this is the arithmetic that turns the base fine into the payment:

Worked example: 15 mph over a fixed limit (not a 65/70 mph road), first offense, no enhancement zones

The $30 forfeiture is a sixth of what the driver actually owes: the Judicial Conference's schedule stacks the 26% penalty surcharge and three flat court-system charges to print $175.30 as the total deposit, which resolves the citation when paid. After a contested hearing a court sets the forfeiture anywhere in the statutory $30–$300 range, with the same surcharges and costs computed on top.

What raises it

• Work zones and response areas (highway/railroad maintenance or construction, utility work, emergency or roadside response, sanitation workers at risk). Statutory minimum and maximum forfeitures double (range $60–$600), and the schedule prints higher deposits: $213.10 (1–15 over), $263.50 (16–19), $313.90 (20–24), $364.30 (25–29), $452.50 (30–34), $578.50 (35–39), $767.50 (40–44), $893.50 (45+). If the violation causes bodily harm in such an area, it becomes a crime punishable by up to a $10,000 fine or 9 months imprisonment, or both. (Wis. Stat. §346.60(3m)(a); 2026 Deposit Schedule)
• School zone with children present. Forfeiture minimum and maximum double when children are present in a marked school zone; the schedule doubles the deposit column (the 26% surcharge recomputes on the doubled amount, other columns unchanged). School/safety-zone speeding under §346.57(4)(a)–(c) also has its own rows: $187.90 (1–10 over, 3 points) and $200.50 (11–15 over, 4 points), statutory range $40–$300. (Wis. Stat. §346.60(3m)(b), (3); 2026 Deposit Schedule school-zone note and rows)
• 25+ mph over a 55, 65, or 70 mph limit — mandatory suspension. The court must suspend the operating privilege for 15 days upon conviction of exceeding the applicable limit under §346.57(4)(gm) or (h) by 25 mph or more. (Wis. Stat. §343.30(1n))

License points

The deposit schedule prints demerit points on every speeding row: 3 points at 1–10 over, 4 points at 11–19 over, 6 points at 20 or more over.

Accumulating 12 or more demerit points within 12 months suspends the driving privilege: for a regular license, 2 months at 12–16 points, 4 months at 17–22, 6 months at 23–30, one year over 30. Probationary-license, instruction-permit, and unlicensed drivers get 6 months at 12–30 points and one year over 30 — and their points are doubled for second and subsequent convictions. (wisconsindot.gov — Wisconsin's point system)

Local variation — the honest caveat

Municipal-ordinance citations — how many city police write ordinary speeding — are returnable to municipal court, where the $89.50 court-support/justice-information surcharges do not apply and local court costs of $15–$48 replace the $25 circuit-court costs. The municipal total bond = deposit + local costs + 26% penalty surcharge + $10 jail + $13 crime lab, so the same $30-deposit violation runs $75.80–$108.80 depending on the municipality, versus $175.30 in circuit court. Milwaukee County adds $3.50 to circuit-court violations. (2026 Revised Uniform State Traffic Deposit Schedule — Municipal Court Bond Schedule (inside back cover) and per-page footnotes)

• Amounts are the 2026 schedule, adopted by the Wisconsin Judicial Conference under Wis. Stat. §§345.26(2)(a) and 778.25(3) and reviewed annually.
• The deposit is the resolve-without-contest amount; a court retains power after a hearing to set the forfeiture within the statutory range, with the same mandatory surcharges and costs attached.
• Second-offense-within-a-year rows (range $80–$600 for §346.57(2)–(3)-type violations) and the $8 truck-driver-education surcharge for commercial vehicles exist in the schedule and are not tabulated here.
• Statutory forfeiture ranges: $30–$300 for §346.57(4)(d)–(h) and (5); $50–$300 for the 65/70 mph limits in (4)(gm); $40–$300 first offense ($80–$600 repeat) for §346.57(2), (3), and (4)(a)–(c).

Sources

Every figure above was compiled from these sources, with a verbatim quote of the sentence carrying each number stored in the dataset so any row can be re-checked against its origin.

• State of Wisconsin — Revised Uniform State Traffic Deposit Schedule (2026), Wisconsin Court System retrieved 2026-07-17 · 2026
  https://www.wicourts.gov/publications/fees/docs/bondsched26.pdf
• Wis. Stat. §346.60 — Penalty for violating sections 346.57 to 346.595 (official text, docs.legis.wisconsin.gov) retrieved 2026-07-17
  https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/statutes/346.60
• Wis. Stat. §343.30(1n) — Suspension by courts (official text, docs.legis.wisconsin.gov) retrieved 2026-07-17
  https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/statutes/343.30
• Wisconsin DMV (WisDOT) — Wisconsin's point system retrieved 2026-07-17
  https://wisconsindot.gov/Pages/dmv/license-drvs/susp-or-rvkd/point-system.aspx