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Do I get paid for jury duty?

Pick your state for a plain-English answer: whether your employer has to pay you, whether you can be fired for serving, and what the court pays — each backed by a primary-source statute citation.

JurorPay summarizes state-by-state jury-duty pay rules and job-protection statutes. This is procedural civic-duty information, not legal advice. Statutes change; verify directly with your state court, employer HR, or a licensed attorney before relying on this summary.

51 jurisdictions — all 50 states + the District of Columbia.

  • Primary-source statute citations
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The 4-card answer

  • Will your employer pay you?In 8 jurisdictions a state law requires your employer to keep paying you for at least part of your service. In the rest, federal law protects your job — not your paycheck.
  • Can you be fired for serving?Nearly every state — 50 of 51 — has an anti-retaliation statute that makes it illegal to fire, threaten, or penalize you for jury service.
  • What does the court pay?Court per-diem ranges from a few dollars a day to $50 or more, often with a higher rate for long trials and a mileage allowance. Every state page shows the schedule and the statute.

Plus the court per-diem schedule and mileage rule for every jurisdiction.

What you'll learn

Three questions, one click

Every state page answers the questions a jury summons actually raises — without the HR-marketing fluff or scare tactics.

Will your employer pay you?

In 8 jurisdictions a state law requires your employer to keep paying you for at least part of your service. In the rest, federal law protects your job — not your paycheck.

Can you be fired for serving?

Nearly every state — 50 of 51 — has an anti-retaliation statute that makes it illegal to fire, threaten, or penalize you for jury service.

What does the court pay?

Court per-diem ranges from a few dollars a day to $50 or more, often with a higher rate for long trials and a mileage allowance. Every state page shows the schedule and the statute.

A civic obligation, decoded

Jury service is the one civic duty almost every adult is eventually called to.

The rules about pay and protection are public law — but they sit scattered across 51 legislatures and court systems. JurorPay reads them in one place so you can answer one question: what happens to my pay and my job?

The 50-state picture

Where employers must pay

Color-coded by whether state law requires your employer to keep paying you during jury service. Select any state for its full answer.

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Hover or focus a state for a quick summary.
  • Employer pay required
  • No state pay mandate
  • Varies / unverified
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How it works

From summons to answer in four steps

No account, no upload, no waiting. The decoder runs entirely from published statute data.

  • Pick your state

    Search by name or 2-letter code. The picker shows each state's employer-pay status as you type.

  • Read the 4-card answer

    Employer pay, pay duration, job protection, and court per-diem — in plain English.

  • Check the citation

    Every card links to the state legislature or court primary source, with the date we verified it.

  • Verify before you rely

    Statutes change. Use the citation to confirm with your court or HR before serving.

Why trust this

Primary sources, plainly cited

Other results for these queries are HR-software marketing pages. JurorPay is built the opposite way: every claim links to the law that sets it.

  • Read from the source. Figures come from state legislative-information systems and court administrative offices — not aggregators.
  • Honest about gaps. 4 jurisdictions we could not re-verify this cycle carry a visible “provisional” badge instead of a guessed number.
  • Date-stamped. Each state shows when we last verified it. Data compiled June 16, 2026.
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Editorial review

An employment attorney from our review pool is being onboarded to sign off on the jury-leave and anti-retaliation summaries. Until that review is complete, every figure on the site links directly to the state legislature or court primary source so you can verify it yourself. We will publish the reviewer's name, bar number, state, and profile here once secured — and never a placeholder name.

Questions

Jury-duty pay, answered

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Find your state's rule

Employer pay, job protection, and court per-diem — in plain English, with the statute that sets each one.

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Procedural civic-duty information, not legal advice. Verify with your court or HR before relying on any summary.