Probation Conditions Calculator

Despite its name, this calculator focuses on the financial burden of probation rather than the legal conditions themselves — it totals up supervision fees, drug testing, electronic monitoring, mandatory program fees, and the opportunity cost of community service across the full probation term. Monthly supervision fees are tiered by supervision level, from $25 for administrative/unsupervised probation up to $175 for high-risk GPS-monitored cases, and get multiplied straight through by the probation length in months since these fees recur every month regardless of behavior. Drug testing frequency is driven by supervision level (intensive supervision automatically assumes 4 tests/month) or, at lower levels, by a simple toggle for whether testing is required at all (2 tests/month), each priced at a flat $25 per test. Electronic monitoring is billed daily ($12/day, converted from the number of months you specify at 30 days/month) and mandatory programs — substance abuse, anger management, DUI school, and similar court-ordered classes — are each assumed to average $2,000, a rough blend across the wide range those programs actually cost.

Community service doesn't carry a direct dollar fee, but the calculator estimates its opportunity cost at $15/hour of lost work time, reported separately from the "hard cost" total so you can see both figures. A one-time $100 intake fee applies to everyone, plus a $250 presentence investigation fee for intensive or high-risk supervision levels. Because supervision fee schedules, testing costs, and program pricing vary widely by county and private-provider contract, treat these totals as a budgeting starting point — and remember that unpaid supervision fees are themselves a common trigger for probation revocation.