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Jury duty pay in Alaska

What happens to your pay and your job if you're summoned in Alaska — with the statute behind each answer. Provisional — primary source pending re-verification on June 16, 2026.

At a glance

Employer payNo state employer-pay mandate
Job protectionProtected
Court per-diem$25/day
Status Provisional

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.

Not required

Will your employer pay you?

In Alaska, no state law requires your employer to pay your wages during jury service (federal law protects your job, not your pay). AS 09.20.037 protects employment but expressly does NOT require an employer to pay wages for time spent on jury service or attending court for prospective jury service.

Provisional · primary source pending re-verification

No state mandate

How much, and for how long?

No state-mandated employer pay. You may still be paid voluntarily, under a contract, or under a collective-bargaining agreement — check your employer's policy. The court pays a separate per-diem (see the court-pay card).

Provisional · primary source pending re-verification

Protected

Can you be fired for serving?

Your job is statutorily protected. Alaska law prohibits firing, threatening, or penalizing you for responding to a jury summons or serving. Federal law (28 U.S.C. §1875) adds the same protection for federal-court service.

Provisional · primary source pending re-verification

$25/day

What does the court pay you?

The court pays jurors $25 per day. Reported: $25.00 per full day / $12.50 per half day commencing the second day of service, plus transportation reimbursement at the state mileage allowance. Per-diem amount sourced from aggregator, not a primary court page.

Provisional · primary source pending re-verification

Editor's note on this state

Employer-pay (not required) and job-protection under AS 09.20.037 confirmed via search of the Alaska statutes (Justia mirror). Justia returned HTTP 403 on direct WebFetch, so statute text came from the search-result summary, not a directly-fetched primary page. Court per-diem not confirmed from a primary Alaska Court System page; marked unverified to be conservative.

Sources for Alaska

Each figure links to the primary source we read it from. The federal baseline is 28 U.S.C. §1875 — it protects your job during federal-court service but does not require pay.

  • Employer-pay statute: AS 09.20.037Primary source
  • Anti-retaliation statute: AS 09.20.037Primary source
  • Court per-diem schedule: not specifiedverified June 16, 2026

How Alaska compares on court per-diem

Court-paid daily fee, ranked across all states with a single statewide figure. Alaska is highlighted.

Petit-juror per-diem paid by the court (first/standard day), ranked. 9 jurisdictions set per-diem locally (county-by-county or pegged to minimum wage) with no single statewide figure, and are omitted here rather than shown as a guessed amount. Where a state pays a higher rate for extended service, this chart shows the standard day rate. See each state page for the full schedule and citation.

Other states with similar rules

Check another state

Same answer, any jurisdiction.

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

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.