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Jury duty pay in Louisiana

What happens to your pay and your job if you're summoned in Louisiana — 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-diem$25/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.

Required

Will your employer pay you?

In Louisiana, your employer is required to keep paying you during jury service. Employer must grant a leave of absence of up to ONE day without loss of wages (or sick/personal/other leave) for state petit/grand jury or central jury pool service (RS 23:965(B)(1)). Beyond one day there is no statutory wage-pay requirement. Violation: employer must pay the one day's full wages and is fined $100-$500 per offense.

Primary source · verified June 16, 2026

Employer-paid

How much, and for how long?

Employer must grant a leave of absence of up to ONE day without loss of wages (or sick/personal/other leave) for state petit/grand jury or central jury pool service (RS 23:965(B)(1)). Beyond one day there is no statutory wage-pay requirement. Violation: employer must pay the one day's full wages and is fined $100-$500 per offense.

Primary source · verified June 16, 2026

Protected

Can you be fired for serving?

Your job is statutorily protected. Louisiana 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

$25/day

What does the court pay you?

The court pays jurors $25 per day. Mileage not less than 16 cents/mile nor more than the rate in effect for state officials; one charge each way (RS 13:3049(B)). Rates set by district judges en banc subject to parish approval; the $25 figure is the criminal-case juror compensation rate.

Primary source · verified June 16, 2026

Editor's note on this state

RS 23:965 full text fetched from FindLaw (current as of Jan 1 2023): subsection A = anti-discharge/job protection, subsection B = one-day paid leave. RS 13:3049 fetched gives $25/day criminal-case juror compensation. Official legis.la.gov was unreachable (DNS) and Justia is Cloudflare-blocked; FindLaw used as code mirror. No extended-service higher rate in the fetched RS 13:3049 text.

Sources for Louisiana

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 Louisiana compares on court per-diem

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