# How much do you get paid for jury duty?

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492/21 "2007-02-10T03:09:28Z")

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$6 for the one day, but I donated it to the poor starving children or whatever the option was.

It was muni court, and there’s a large free parking lot near the police station/court house. If it had been county court, it would have been on the other side of downtown where there are no free lots, and I would have been responsible for the parking fees.

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**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492/22 "2007-02-10T04:03:18Z")

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I just “served” two weeks ago. It was $15 for a half day, $35 if it went the full day. Parking was provided by the county. My employer paid my salary as well. It was an interesting experience–8 plus hours of questioning and then (sob!) I was rejected.

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**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492/23 "2007-02-10T05:32:15Z")

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Jury duty fees here seem to start from $31 per day for up to 3 hours minimum, plus travelling expenses. Not too good paywise, actually. If ever I got called up (so far, I haven’t), I’d lose a lot of dough.

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**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492/24 "2007-02-10T08:15:05Z")

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I just got a check for $101.36 for two days of jury service\*. I believe that was $40 a day, plus two days of mileage from where I live in Decatur to the Federal courthouse in downtown Atlanta.

(\*They didn’t actually pick me; it just took them two days to get through jury selection–it was for that woman, since convicted, who–I guess I don’t have to say “allegedly” anymore–conspired to steal trade secrets from Coca-Cola.)

Edited to add: And I got my regular salary in addition, since I work for a very large unionized Phone Company.

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**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-get-paid-for-jury-duty/391492/25 "2007-02-10T14:49:42Z")

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[QUOTE=gigi]  
I worked a job that paid for you to go, but you had to sign over the stipend to them. Cheap bastards.  
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My job’s kind of the same way. Jury duty is $5 a day; if I get called, I can either sign over my jury duty stipend to my company and get paid my regular salary for that day, or I can keep the jury duty pay and forfeit my salary for the day. That’s a no brainer.

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