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I would love to do jury duty. It's one of your obligations as a US Citizen, treat it like that.
Then they should get paid a living wage.
Fifteen dollars is way beyond minimum wage from what I've read online. Also they apparently give them sandwiches and coffee and let's them sit. It's not like any US corporation would go that far. Unless they'd grab their organs later on.
It's $15 per day, not per hour.
That was a lot in 1922! And don't forget the sandwiches!
You don't get less pay for an easier day at any corporation either. We get paid for our time, regardless of how efficiently the employer chooses to spend that time.
Yeah. The right to trial by a jury of your peers is an amazing privilege that comes with the responsibility of willingness to serve on one. You don’t need to love your country to be proud to do it, just to love your fellow humans and to understand how much worse the alternatives are.
None of my peers can afford to miss work for $15 per day.
Fwiw, some states require employers to compensate employees at their regular wage while serving on a jury. Probably not relevant to you in particular, since I think only 10 do (plus DC), but it's worth checking out if you're unsure. Especially since some of the states that do have such provisions may not be the ones you might expect. Alabama and (parts of) Florida come to mind.
Furthermore, in states where such compensation is not compelled by law, employers are free to develop their own policies, which may include full compensation for jury duty or other mandatory court summons (e.g. being a witness). I'm sure that that is not common, per se, but it bears investigation if you find yourself in that situation. Either by contacting your HR department, or reading the policies yourself, depending on the competency or sliminess of your HR contacts.
Cool. I would love be to be able to pay rent and buy food, and jury duty is incompatible with that