# District of Columbia — Jury duty employer pay requirements by US state — whether an employer must keep paying wages during jury service, how much, for how long, quoted from the state's own statute

For District of Columbia, employer pay rule is 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; employer size exemption is Employers with 10 or less employees shall not be required to pay a juror-employee his or her usual compensation; statute is D.C. Code § 15-718, recorded from its source on 2026-09-02.

- **State:** District of Columbia _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Employer pay rule:** 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. _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Employer size exemption:** Employers with 10 or less employees shall not be required to pay a juror-employee his or her usual compensation. _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Statute:** D.C. Code § 15-718 _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> (c) 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. A person shall not be considered a full-time employed juror on any day of jury service in which that person:

## Where each value comes from

This source states these in separate places, so each value is shown with the passage that states it.

### Employer size exemption

> (2) Would not have worked more than 1/2 of a shift that extends into another day if the employee were not serving as a juror on that day. Employers with 10 or less employees shall not be required to pay a juror-employee his or her usual compensation.

### Statute

> Code of the District of Columbia § 15–718. Juror fees.

## Source

- https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/15-718

Last verified: 2026-09-02. Review by: 2027-09-02.
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