| | It might be $9 per day where Kurt Eichert is. It is different in different places. In Phoenix, the rules are $12 per day, plus 34½¢ per mile round trip -- or you can be reimbursed for travel with city bus tickets.
http://phoenix.gov/COURT/juryduty.html#PAYMENT
On the other hand
FEES: Jurors are paid $17.50 per half-day, and $35.00 per full day, for jury service attendance. Mileage from your home to the courthouse is reimbursed at the federal set rate, currently .405 cents per mile (round trip). Jurors serving a full-day of jury service may receive a $4.00 meal allowance stipend.
(Portage County "in the heart of Wisconsin.")
http://www.co.portage.wi.us/Clerk%20Of%20Courts/jury_service.htm
In Delaware County, Pennsylvania:
Will I receive payment for jury duty?
Jurors receive $9.00 a day for the first three days of service. Beginning on the fourth day, the rate increases to $25.00 per day. Jurors also receive mileage for each day of service. The amount is 17 cents per mile which is calculated from post office to post office (Media).
http://www.co.delaware.pa.us/jguide/questions.html#8
U.S. District Court for Salt Lake City, Utah, pays $40 per day plus 40.75 cents per mile. If you have to travel more than 80 miles one-way (realistic out west), then you can use up to $118 per day for hotel plus $8 for parking in addition to the $40.
http://www.utd.uscourts.gov/documents/jury_pay.html
Moreover, many employers, especially large corporations (though small companies, also), government entities and quasi-government entities (universities, for instance) will pay your salary while you are on jury duty. In such cases, you may have to declare the money paid to you for jury duty to be deducted from your daily wages -- but not in all A South Dakota judge ruled that the two situations, work and jury duty, are not related.
http://www.state.sd.us/attorney/applications/documents/oneDocument.asp?DocumentID=433
Personally, I am sorry that there is no way to link that with consequences. In other words, an employer who does not pay regular wages (without regard to jury duty payments) -- or a person who does not want to serve on a jury -- should just lose their right to trial by jury. There is no way to make that work, of course, so it is just a sentiment, not a proposal.
Laure Chipman wrote: "Yes, I think we could do fine with a voluntary system. There must be plenty of senior citizens, or others who don't need to work, who would get a kick out of serving on juries."
And that's who you want on your jury? I have a hard enough time with the theory that people who know nothing at all are best qualified to make the hardest choices.
There are two theories of government at work here. At the local level, for instance, city council is often unpaid or lowly paid. Here in Ann Arbor, city council is $13,000 per year and county board of commissioners is $13,000 to $18,000 per year. We do not want public service to be lucrative because we do not want people to pursue it for the wages alone. That is based on some altruist-collectivist ideas about money and social class.
Should we pay, say $1000 a day for jury duty and have American Bar Association or American Arbitration Association certification for jurors? Should we have community college classes in Juroring, like we do for court reporting or law enforcement, so you have an associate's in jury duty and compete for jobs based on qualifications and experience? Would that be better?
Would people render better verdicts knowing that they might affect their future employment as jurors?
We are promised a jury of our "peers" in a society that has no legal recognition of "peerage." The Green Party is not alone among leftists in advocating for juries constructed for the race and gender of the accused. So, do I want a jury of Siculo-Magyars? Do I want a jury of Objectivists? Do I want a jury of 56-year old men without male pattern baldness? Blood type B positives? Aircraft pilots? Numismatists? All of the above?
I work for myself. If I serve on a jury, there is no paycheck, except that from the court. Even so, I consider it a small price to pay for the benefit of having trials by juries.
(Edited by Michael E. Marotta on 7/22, 12:17pm)
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