[GovernmentShrinker]

$40/day is a 20% pay cut? You make $250/week for "a demanding job that requires a lot of travel"? This doesn't sound right.

[1L]

$40/day is a 20% pay cut? You make $250/week for "a demanding job that requires a lot of travel"? This doesn't sound right.

I think he was referring to the hit he would take in his salary by not being there the days he would serve on jury duty. If he made 100K per year, and missed out on salary (and commissions) because of his absense of 20K per year, the $40 a day doesn't add too much.

I thought GJ duty was once a month, so the better question is where he got the 20%.

[quienyo]

Federal Grand Jury Duty will probably involve two days a month, possible four, depending on the district. Of course, it could be as little as one day a month, also depending on the district.

Of course, you could bring up your opposition the notion of the Grand Jury, but as it is required by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, you'll be unlikely to get it removed from the Constitution before your term of service begins.

As a last resort, you could go in a tell all the other Grand Jurors (who are also being inconviencned), that you are much more worthy of being excused than they because of your prior service to your Country and your much better paying job. This will likely only antagonzie them, but it could be fun.

And last of all, in Shelby County, TN, you recieve exactly $6.00/day for jury service - no mileage allowance, no parking fees, nothing more than the $6.00. So be glad it's the Federal Government that has requested you to perform your Constitutional Duty, because if it were the state, you'd have to find some way to make up that $34.00/day plus mileage you would be missing.

[texson66]

Sorry. I meant that I will lose a day's pay ($40 is the feds idea of compensation)(4 days paid out of five= 80%) AND after 10 days of duty my company will not compensate me after that period of time.