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Jury duty pay in Connecticut

What happens to your pay and your job if you're summoned in Connecticut — 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 Connecticut, your employer is required to keep paying you during jury service. Conn. Gen. Stat. 51-247(a) requires each full-time employed juror to be paid regular wages by the employer for the first five days (or part thereof) of jury service. 'Full-time employed juror' = a non-temporary, non-casual position normally requiring 30+ hours/week.

Primary source · verified June 16, 2026

Employer-paid

How much, and for how long?

Conn. Gen. Stat. 51-247(a) requires each full-time employed juror to be paid regular wages by the employer for the first five days (or part thereof) of jury service. 'Full-time employed juror' = a non-temporary, non-casual position normally requiring 30+ hours/week.

Primary source · verified June 16, 2026

Protected

Can you be fired for serving?

Your job is statutorily protected. Connecticut 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?

First five days: employer pays full-time jurors' regular wages; part-time/unemployed jurors get state reimbursement of $20-$50/day for out-of-pocket expenses including $0.20/mile round trip. The state pays all jurors $50/day for the sixth day and each day thereafter (51-247(c)).

Primary source · verified June 16, 2026

Editor's note on this state

Employer-pay mandate (first 5 days), 30-hr full-time definition, $50/day from sixth day, $20-$50 reimbursement and $0.20/mile confirmed via NACDL (citing 51-247(a)/(c) and 51-247a) and a CT employment-law source. Official cga.ct.gov statute and CT Judicial PDF failed to fetch (TLS cert error / unreadable binary); data confirmed from secondary sources citing exact subsections. court_per_diem_petit_usd null because employer pays days 1-5.

Sources for Connecticut

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 Connecticut compares on court per-diem

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