Jury duty pay in Colorado

Employers pay regular wages up to $50 a day for the first 3 days. From the fourth day the state pays $50 a day¹²³

First three days are paid by the employer. Self-employed jurors can ask the court for up to $50 a day for those days.

Your rights as a juror

Must your employer pay you?: Yes. Employers must pay regularly employed jurors, including part-time and temporary, regular wages up to $50 a day for the first 3 days¹
Job protection: Employers may not deprive a juror of employment or benefits or harass, threaten or coerce them. Willful violation is a class 2 misdemeanor¹
Postponing or being excused: You have the right to one postponement by mail, email, the county online form or the jury commissioner²

Many counties pay more than the state minimum, and your summons usually says what you will be paid. If something here is not covered, your summons or the court clerk can tell you.

Sources

Information for Employers, Colorado Judicial Branch, checked 1 November 2026
Jury System, Colorado Judicial Branch, checked 1 November 2026
C.R.S. 13-71-129, public.law (secondary), checked 1 November 2026

Checked 1 November 2026. "Secondary" marks a copy of the law we used because the official site could not be read.