# How much do you get paid for jury duty? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 9, 2007, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492 "2007-02-09T14:29:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492/1 "2007-02-09T14:29:54Z")
My wife works benifits for a large company. Last night she asked me how much I got paid when I had jury duty a few months ago because her company pays you for the time you’re on jury duty. However, they can take out of your paycheck if you get paid for more then lunch, gas, and parking. So, how much do you get paid in different places? I got $15 a day, plus and extra $5 for staying after 5pm. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492/2 "2007-02-09T14:47:12Z")
I get $15 and that barely covers parking at the nearest garage. Also, my company doesn’t pay it, so I need to use a vacation day, too. Next time I get jury duty, I’m thinking about calling in sick. I’m struggling with the moral implications of this. Either way, you can consider that I’m out a few hunge by going to jury duty. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492/3 "2007-02-09T14:54:44Z")
I think it was $25.00, perhaps $30.00. I parked on a meter and didn’t get a ticket; the county would supposedly pay for it if I had. Now I have to declare that on my income tax, and can’t remember how much it was. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492/4 "2007-02-09T15:14:24Z")
$10.00 per day plus mileage if you drive, a couple of bus passes per day if you don’t (I didn’t). ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492/5 "2007-02-09T15:21:58Z")
For the county I got $45 a day. For the city, a princely $5. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492/6 "2007-02-09T15:44:53Z")
It’s $12 a day around here. Actually, the only two times I’ve been called, they sent us home after an hour, so it wasn’t a bad wage. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492/7 "2007-02-09T18:22:45Z")
I worked a job that paid for you to go, but you had to sign over the stipend to them. Cheap bastards. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492/8 "2007-02-09T18:51:58Z")
In Kentucky it’s $12.50 a day, and has been for at least the last 20 years. I don’t know about before that. Where I work, you get paid the same as if you were here, so it’s like a big fat free 12 bucks for your trouble. Whee! ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492/9 "2007-02-09T18:58:01Z")
$5. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492/10 "2007-02-09T19:04:09Z")
I served on a county trial a year ago, and I believe each of us got paid $30 per day plus something for mileage from our home to the courthouse. And lunch was on the county. Excellent, jail food and we could pick from a menu. No kidding – the chef’s salad was really great! ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492/11 "2007-02-09T19:13:41Z")
I don’t know how much one gets paid around here by the state/county, but at my last job, if you had jury duty, you got paid the whole day at your normal rate, and it didn’t use vacation or sick days. They were great about things like that. Hell, if you were a volunteer emergency service member (firefighter or EMT,) you could leave your job to go on a call and the time you spent on the call you’d get paid for and again, it wouldn’t use sick or vacation time. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492/12 "2007-02-09T21:00:50Z")
$40/day in New York City. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492/13 "2007-02-09T21:11:31Z")
$15, but you only get that if your employer doesn’t pay you. Mine does. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492/14 "2007-02-09T21:16:48Z")
Around $10 but I declined it. It seemed pitiful. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492/15 "2007-02-09T23:56:27Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] I don’t know how much one gets paid around here by the state/county, but at my last job, if you had jury duty, you got paid the whole day at your normal rate, and it didn’t use vacation or sick days. They were great about things like that. [/QUOTE] Same here. JD doesn’t affect our PTO, and we get to keep whatever pittance ($15 per day after the first day) we might get from the court. They also give us up to two paid hours for voting in general (statewide) elections. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492/16 "2007-02-10T00:56:22Z")
$40/day + $8/parking max + .445/mile. All this has to be turned over to my employer because they pay me my regular salary while I’m doing my civic duty. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492/17 "2007-02-10T01:57:57Z")
I get full pay, because I work for a government agency that continues to pay me while I’m on jury duty, including all benefits and overtime. For folks whose employers don’t pay, they will get paid a rate which I don’t remember off the top of my head, but it’s reasonable daily blue collar pay. The problems arise for those in higher income brackets, or the self-employed. The latter group, however, can often apply to be excused based on potential harm to their business if there is going to be a long trial. ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492/18 "2007-02-10T02:02:55Z")
$30/day for a county trial. We had to buy or pack our own lunches. No fancy chef’s salad for us! ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492/19 "2007-02-10T02:13:53Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] I don’t know how much one gets paid around here by the state/county, but at my last job, if you had jury duty, you got paid the whole day at your normal rate, and it didn’t use vacation or sick days. They were great about things like that. Hell, if you were a volunteer emergency service member (firefighter or EMT,) you could leave your job to go on a call and the time you spent on the call you’d get paid for and again, it wouldn’t use sick or vacation time. [/QUOTE] This is the same for me at my current job. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492/20 "2007-02-10T02:28:35Z")
[QUOTE=gotpasswords] They also give us up to two paid hours for voting in general (statewide) elections. [/QUOTE] But did you get Town Meeting Day off from work? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492.md?page=2)