You need the premium: $5,000 on $50,000 bail, with 10% as the standard filed rate. Eligible clients may get a reduced filed rate, often 8%. The $50,000 comes from the county felony schedule, added amounts, a judge's warrant, or a court order.
The $5,000 premium on $50,000 bail
The premium for a $50,000 bond is $5,000, which works out to 10% of the bail, the standard filed rate. Your eligibility decides whether the reduced filed rate, often 8%, applies. You do not need $50,000 on hand to post a bond, because the premium is a fraction of the bail.
That premium is the core bail bond cost at this amount. Collateral and allowed case expenses, where they apply, sit outside it. Our bail bond cost guide shows the same math for other bail amounts.
Charges the 2026 schedule lists at $50,000
Pomona police and other agencies in the county work from the same Los Angeles Superior Court schedule when they arrest someone without a warrant. Several rows in the 2026 edition sit at $50,000. Battery with serious bodily injury (PC 243(d)) and assault on a firefighter or peace officer (PC 245(c)) using a deadly weapon that is not a firearm, or force likely to cause great bodily injury, are both on page 14. Corporal injury to specified persons (PC 273.5) appears on page 15, arson of other property (PC 451(d)) on page 19, and grand theft of a firearm (PC 487(d)(2)) on page 20.
Four of those five rows carry the schedule's serious or violent flag. The PC 273.5 row carries a PC 1270.1 reference instead. Our bail schedule guide explains the rows, and our domestic violence bond page covers a PC 273.5 arrest.
How a lower charge climbs to $50,000
A charge priced below $50,000 can leave a family budgeting for a $50,000 bond. The court's felony computation worksheet starts with the highest-priced charge. It adds the scheduled amount for each extra count against a separate victim or on a separate date. Enhancements add fixed sums: $40,000 for a street gang benefit, $30,000 for great bodily injury, and $25,000, once, when the person has other felony charges pending or is on parole, felony probation or probation department supervision. Each prior serious or violent felony conviction adds $50,000, and two or more such priors on a serious or violent charge add far more. A $25,000 charge plus the $25,000 pending-case amount, for example, totals $50,000.
Arrest warrants follow a separate path. Under PC 815a, a judge who issues the warrant sets the bail amount and endorses it on the warrant, provided the offense is bailable. After a warrantless arrest, officers can ask for more. PC 1270.1(e) lets a magistrate raise bail above the schedule without a hearing on a bailable felony, once a sworn peace officer presents a declaration under penalty of perjury.
What a judge must say to change it
A judge can raise or lower the figure within Penal Code limits. Before a court cuts bail below the schedule on a serious or violent felony, PC 1275(c) requires a finding of unusual circumstances and the facts on the record. Making every earlier court date, or committing no new offense, does not count as unusual. On a PC 1270.1 charge such as PC 273.5, a judge who goes above or below the schedule must state the reasons on the record. A defense attorney can say whether a bail-change request fits the case.
At arraignment or a later hearing, the schedule gives a $50,000 guideline for money bail on a felony it marks Book and Release, meaning release after booking on a promise to appear. A judge may use it once the facts change or a statute permits. However the figure arose, the premium for a $50,000 bond stays $5,000 at the standard 10% filed rate.