9 records
Does my employer have to pay me while I'm on jury duty, and for how many days?
9 records, one fact each. Every value is transcribed from the source that states it and carries the sentence it was taken from: 9 sources across 7 sites, last checked 2026-09-02, due for re-check by 2027-09-02. Every record is listed below, each linking the page its value came from.
About this data
Federal law (FLSA) does not require a private employer to pay an employee for time spent on jury duty — only eight states plus the District of Columbia impose any wage-continuation mandate at all, and where one exists the terms vary sharply: full regular wages with no cap (Alabama), full wages minus whatever fee the court itself pays the juror (Nebraska, Tennessee, DC), a flat dollar-per-day cap (Colorado $50/day, New York $72/day), or a mandate limited to a small fixed window (Louisiana covers one day only; Massachusetts and Colorado three days; Connecticut and DC five days). Several also exempt small employers below a headcount threshold (Tennessee under 5 employees; DC and New York's dollar floor apply only above 10 employees). Free HR-vendor comparison charts on this exact topic exist (Clockspot, Workforce.com) but Clockspot's own table flags five of its core-state rows — Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Tennessee, DC — as 'commonly described, confirm before coding' rather than sourced to the statute text itself; this asset states all eight states plus DC against the primary code section. Each record is one jurisdiction with an employer pay mandate, giving the pay rule as the statute states it (amount, duration, any employer-size exemption) plus the citation. Jurisdictions with no mandate are omitted rather than asserted — the absence is the majority position and isn't claimed here without a source stating it for that specific state. Answers 'does my employer have to pay me for jury duty', 'how many days of jury duty must my employer pay for', 'can my employer deduct the court's juror fee from my pay'.
The data
| State | Employer pay rule | Statute | Employer size exemption |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | any full-time employee shall be entitled to his or her usual compensation received from such employment | Ala. Code § 12-16-8 | |
| Colorado | All regularly employed trial or grand jurors shall be paid regular wages, but not to exceed fifty dollars per day unless by mutual agreement between the employee and employer, by their employers for the first three days of juror service or any part thereof. | C.R.S. § 13-71-126 | |
| Connecticut | Each full-time employed juror shall be paid regular wages by the juror's employer for the first five days, or part thereof, of jury service. | Conn. Gen. Stat. § 51-247 | |
| District of Columbia | For jury service of 5 days or less, petit or grand jurors employed full-time in the District of Columbia shall be entitled to their usual compensation less the fee received for jury service. | D.C. Code § 15-718 | Employers with 10 or less employees shall not be required to pay a juror-employee his or her usual compensation. |
| Louisiana | be granted a leave of absence by his employer, of up to one day, for that period of time required for such jury duty. Such leave of absence shall be granted without loss of wages, or sick, emergency, or personal leave or any other benefit. | La. R.S. 23:965 | |
| Massachusetts | Each regularly employed trial or grand juror shall be paid regular wages by his employer for the first three days, or part thereof, of juror service. | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 234A, § 48 | |
| Nebraska | No employer shall subject an employee to discharge, loss of pay, loss of sick leave, loss of vacation time, or any other form of penalty on account of his or her absence from employment by reason of jury duty, except that an employer may reduce the pay of an employee by an amount equal to any compensation, other than expenses, paid by the court for jury duty. | Neb. Rev. Stat. § 25-1674 | |
| New York | An employer may, however, withhold wages of any such employee serving as a juror during the period of such service; provided that an employer who employs more than ten employees shall not withhold the first seventy-two dollars of such juror’s daily wages during the first three days of jury service. | N.Y. Judiciary Law § 519 | |
| Tennessee | the employee shall be entitled to the employee's usual compensation received from such employment; however, the employer has the discretion to deduct the amount of the fee or compensation the employee receives for serving as a juror. | Tennessee Code Title 22. Juries and Jurors § 22-4-106 | If an employer employs less than five (5) people on a regular basis or if the juror has been employed by an employer on a temporary basis for less than six (6) months, the employer is not required to compensate the juror during the period of jury service pursuant to this section. |
Where this came from
Every record above links the page it was taken from and quotes the sentence that states it. These are the 9 sources this dataset was assembled from.
- codes.findlaw.comhttps://codes.findlaw.com/al/title-12-courts/al-code-sect-12-16-8/
- codes.findlaw.comhttps://codes.findlaw.com/co/title-13-courts-and-court-procedure/co-rev-st-sect-13-71-126/
- cga.ct.govhttps://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_884.htm#sec_51-247
- code.dccouncil.govhttps://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/15-718
- legis.la.govhttps://legis.la.gov/Legis/Law.aspx?d=84020
- malegislature.govhttps://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIII/TitleII/Chapter234A/Section48
- nebraskalegislature.govhttps://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-1674
- newyork.public.lawhttps://newyork.public.law/laws/n.y._judiciary_law_section_519
- codes.findlaw.comhttps://codes.findlaw.com/tn/title-22-juries-and-jurors/tn-code-sect-22-4-106/
Machine-readable
- data.jsonThe whole dataset — every record with its source URL and source quote.
- Open Knowledge Format bundleOne JSON object per line — every record's frontmatter and quoted span exactly as it is held here, in one fetch.
- data.csvThe same records as one flat table, for a spreadsheet or a dataframe. The last four columns are the source URL, the quoted sentence it was read from, the date we last checked it, and which columns are our reading rather than the page's words.
- How this is made and checkedWhat "verified against source" does and does not mean.
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