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Jury duty pay in Georgia

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

At a glance

Employer payEmployer pay varies
Job protectionProtected
Court per-diemVaries
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.

Varies

Will your employer pay you?

Georgia has no clear statute mandating employer-paid wages during jury service. Georgia has no statute that plainly mandates employer-paid wages during jury duty. A 1989 Georgia Attorney General opinion (Op. No. 89-55) interprets 'penalize' in the anti-retaliation statute to mean an employer must not cause an employee a net financial loss for jury service, allowing offset of jury pay against wages. This is an AG interpretation, not an explicit statutory pay requirement; the AG opinion text was not fetched. Treated as null pending primary verification.

Provisional · primary source pending re-verification

Varies

How much, and for how long?

Pay duration and amount are not set by a clear Georgia statute. Confirm with your employer's HR and your state court.

Provisional · primary source pending re-verification

Protected

Can you be fired for serving?

Your job is statutorily protected. Georgia 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

Varies

What does the court pay you?

Georgia's court per-diem is set locally (often county-by-county) rather than by a single statewide figure. Check with the court named on your summons.

Provisional · primary source pending re-verification

Editor's note on this state

Georgia statute pages (Justia, FindLaw, legis.ga.gov) all returned HTTP 403/blocked on WebFetch, so no primary statute text was read. Job protection is real (anti-retaliation against discharge/discipline for jury attendance, reportedly O.C.G.A. 34-1-3) and per-diem is a county-set expense allowance fixed annually by each county's grand jury (reportedly O.C.G.A. 15-12-7, range ~$5-$50/day) — confirmed in concept by the official Southern Judicial Circuit court site and a Liberty County $30/day example. Because no statewide dollar figure exists and statute text could not be fetched, citations and amounts left null.

Sources for Georgia

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: not specifiedverified June 16, 2026
  • Anti-retaliation statute: not specifiedPrimary source
  • Court per-diem schedule: not specifiedPrimary source

How Georgia compares on court per-diem

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

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.