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Payment for extended jury duty?

Do jurors in long trials get paid more than the standard $5 per day (or whatever it is these days)? Most employers will only pay for 5 jury days per year and then it is up to the employee to use PTO days to cover any other time. Some big profile trials can last months, does the government (local, state, federal, dependent on the court?) step in and provide a larger stipend after a while to cover costs or are these people just screwed?

Every state has it's own rules. I've served on juries in TX and MO. Neither paid very much, certainly a fraction of my regular pay.

My company allowed me to choose if I wanted to keep the jury pay or turn it over to them. If I turned it over to the company I would be paid my regular salary regardless of the length of the trial. If I kept it, I would be put on vacation until my vacation pay ran out and then on unpaid leave of absense for the remainder of the time. As the jury pay was only about 10% of my regular salary, I signed the check over to the company.

Most states have laws that will protect your job if you are serving on a jury. It's generally left up to the employer as to how to handle the pay issue. Many larger companies are like mine, but not all of my fellow jurors were so lucky. As they say, Freedom isn't Free!

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