Pilot Program Is Raising Juror Pay As An Incentive For People To Show Up For Jury Duty

If you are going to get stuck with jury duty, you might as well make a couple bucks.

You won’t get much in Riverside County for doing your civic duty and actually showing up for jury duty.   In fact, on Day One, you get nothing at all, zero, zilch, squat diddly nothing.   If you get called back for a second day and get on a jury, you will earn fifteen dollars a day and reimbursed for the miles you drive to the courthouse, 34 cents a mile.

You can ride the Sunbus for free, to jury duty, just show the driver your jury summons.

But in some counties, there is hope for a bigger payday for jury duty.   A new pilot program just started, and it raises jury duty pay from 15-dollars a day to 1-hundred dollars a day in  Alameda, El Dorado, Fresno, Imperial, Monterey, San Bernardino and Shasta Counties. The mileage reimbursement is also doubled.

The State of California is not really interested in giving you more money, but it is trying to offer an incentive as a way to gerry-mander juries, by getting a more diverse group of jurors to even show up for jury duty. 

One Hundred Dollar bill photo from Alpha Media Portland OR