# Massachusetts — 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 Massachusetts, employer pay rule is 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; statute is Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 234A, § 48, recorded from its source on 2026-09-02.

- **State:** Massachusetts _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Employer pay rule:** 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. _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statute:** Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 234A, § 48 _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> Section 48. 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. Regular employment shall include part-time, temporary, and casual employment as long as the employment hours of a juror reasonably may be determined by a schedule or by custom and practice established during the three-month period preceding the term of service of such juror.

## Where each value comes from

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

### Statute

> General Law - Part III, Title II, Chapter 234A, Section 48

## Source

- https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIII/TitleII/Chapter234A/Section48

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