Clear Money Guide
What this guide covers
A quick view of the questions and evidence developed below.
Updated August 3, 2026. Quick answer: Ohio’s executor commission is statutory — 4%, 3%, 2% — but the part that changes the answer is the two extra 1% charges: 1% on real property that is not sold, and 1% on certain property that never entered probate at all. An estate whose main asset is a house passing to the family is bigger than the headline percentages suggest.
The schedule
Under ORC §2113.35, executors and administrators receive 4% of the first $100,000, 3% of the next $100,000 to $400,000, and 2% above $400,000, computed on personal property plus real property that is sold.
The two additions that catch people
The statute adds 1% of the value of real property that is not sold, and 1% of certain property that passes outside probate. The second is the surprising one: it reaches assets the executor never administered in the ordinary sense. Where a house passes to the children rather than being sold, the commission is computed on it at 1% rather than being ignored.
The attorney fee is not on this schedule
Ohio prescribes no attorney percentage. Attorney compensation is reasonable, approved by the probate court, and in practice measured against each county’s own local rule — see Ohio probate attorney fees.
What the whole process costs in this state: Ohio probate cost. Every state’s fee model side by side: probate cost by state.
Work out the number: the executor fee calculator. How the standard is applied where no schedule exists: reasonable-compensation states. Whether to take the fee at all: when the executor is also an heir, and how the fee is taxed.
Statutory text read at each state’s own legislature or official code publisher. General information, not legal advice; a court retains the final say on what compensation is allowed.