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Jury duty pay in Tennessee

What happens to your pay and your job if you're summoned in Tennessee — 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$10/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 Tennessee, your employer is required to keep paying you during jury service. Employers with five (5) or more employees on a regular basis MUST pay a summoned employee their usual compensation (employer may deduct the juror fee, or pay full wages without deducting). Does not apply to employees employed on a temporary basis less than six (6) months. No requirement to pay for more time than actually spent serving/traveling.

Primary source · verified June 16, 2026

Employer-paid

How much, and for how long?

Employers with five (5) or more employees on a regular basis MUST pay a summoned employee their usual compensation (employer may deduct the juror fee, or pay full wages without deducting). Does not apply to employees employed on a temporary basis less than six (6) months. No requirement to pay for more time than actually spent serving/traveling.

Primary source · verified June 16, 2026

Protected

Can you be fired for serving?

Your job is statutorily protected. Tennessee 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

$10/day

What does the court pay you?

The court pays jurors $10 per day. $30 per day for jurors selected to serve. Statutory minimum $10/day attendance; counties may set higher (e.g., $11 flat or by ordinance); sequestered jurors at least $30/day. Mileage 10 cents/mile if the county legislative body so allows (TCA 22-4-101).

Primary source · verified June 16, 2026

Editor's note on this state

Employer-pay rule (5+ employees, exclude temp <6 months) confirmed via official CTAS and MTAS (Univ. of Tennessee county/municipal advisory services). TCA 22-4-106 also embeds job protection. Per-diem ($10 min, $30 sequestered, 10c/mile) under TCA 22-4-101 came from 2024 TN Code search text, not a directly fetched primary page, so _source_url_perdiem is null; the $30 'extended' value is the sequestered rate, not a day-threshold tier.

Sources for Tennessee

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: Tenn. Code Ann. § 22-4-106Primary source
  • Anti-retaliation statute: Tenn. Code Ann. § 22-4-106Primary source
  • Court per-diem schedule: not specifiedverified June 16, 2026

How Tennessee compares on court per-diem

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