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Jury duty pay in Colorado

What happens to your pay and your job if you're summoned in Colorado — with the statute behind each answer. Verified against a primary source on June 16, 2026.

At a glance

Employer payEmployer pay required
Job protectionProtected
Court per-diemVaries
Status Verified

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.

Required

Will your employer pay you?

In Colorado, your employer is required to keep paying you during jury service. C.R.S. 13-71-126 requires employers to pay regularly employed jurors their regular wages, not to exceed $50/day (more by mutual agreement), for the first three days of juror service or any part thereof. 'Regular employment' includes part-time, temporary, and casual employment.

Primary source · verified June 16, 2026

Employer-paid

How much, and for how long?

C.R.S. 13-71-126 requires employers to pay regularly employed jurors their regular wages, not to exceed $50/day (more by mutual agreement), for the first three days of juror service or any part thereof. 'Regular employment' includes part-time, temporary, and casual employment.

Primary source · verified June 16, 2026

Protected

Can you be fired for serving?

Your job is statutorily protected. Colorado 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.

Primary source · verified June 16, 2026

Varies

What does the court pay you?

No court per diem for the first three days (employer pays wages up to $50/day). The state pays $50/day from the fourth day onward (C.R.S. 13-71-129); jurors paid under that section are not entitled to additional travel/expense reimbursement.

Primary source · verified June 16, 2026

Editor's note on this state

Employer-pay mandate (up to $50/day first 3 days) and state $50/day from day 4 confirmed by directly fetching the official Colorado Judicial Branch FAQ, which cites C.R.S. 13-71-126 and 13-71-129. Anti-coercion attributed to C.R.S. 13-71-134 via search. court_per_diem_petit_usd null because for the first three days the EMPLOYER (not the court) pays; the state per diem ($50) applies only after day 3.

Sources for Colorado

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.

How Colorado compares on court per-diem

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

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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.