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

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.

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.