# Self-employed, only wage earner-- exempt from jury duty?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-employed-only-wage-earner-exempt-from-jury-duty/608579>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 6, 2012, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-employed-only-wage-earner-exempt-from-jury-duty/608579 "2012-01-06T02:22:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-employed-only-wage-earner-exempt-from-jury-duty/608579/21 "2012-01-06T15:42:28Z")

</div>

I am a sole proprietor. That alone would not have been enough, however the fact that my employees would all have the time off without pay got me out of it. Ideally, I would have enjoyed serving, but not enough to pay employees for three days off.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-employed-only-wage-earner-exempt-from-jury-duty/608579/22 "2012-01-06T17:45:48Z")

</div>

Auto repair facility - we’ve had several of our technicians get called, and have written to the court asking that they be excused as this would cost our company approximately $1,000 per day in lost income from that tech. Never had any trouble getting them off.

This is in Washington State.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-employed-only-wage-earner-exempt-from-jury-duty/608579.md?page=1)