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Jury duty pay in Florida

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

At a glance

Employer payNo state employer-pay mandate
Job protectionProtected
Court per-diem$15/day
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.

Not required

Will your employer pay you?

In Florida, no state law requires your employer to pay your wages during jury service (federal law protects your job, not your pay). Florida law does not require employers to pay wages during jury service. Fla. Stat. 40.24 compensates only jurors who are not regularly employed or who do not continue to receive regular wages; an employer may withhold an amount equal to the statutory jury fee from an employee who is paid regular wages while serving.

Primary source · verified June 16, 2026

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).

Primary source · verified June 16, 2026

Protected

Can you be fired for serving?

Your job is statutorily protected. Florida 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

$15/day

What does the court pay you?

The court pays jurors $15 per day. $30 per day after day 3.

Primary source · verified June 16, 2026

Editor's note on this state

Per-diem ($15/day first 3 days; $30/day from day 4) paid only to jurors not receiving regular wages, read directly from the official Florida Legislature statute page for 40.24. Job-protection citation 40.271 came from a web search snippet, NOT a fetched primary source, so its source URL is left null; existence of statutory anti-retaliation protection is well-supported but the exact section number is unverified here. (This corrects the prior sibling-site fabrication of 'Florida §222.11', which is the homestead/wage-exemption statute, unrelated to jury duty.)

Sources for Florida

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: Fla. Stat. § 40.24Primary source
  • Anti-retaliation statute: Fla. Stat. § 40.271verified June 16, 2026
  • Court per-diem schedule: not specifiedPrimary source

How Florida compares on court per-diem

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