Jury duty pay in Oklahoma
$50a day to start
$50 for each day's attendance before any court of record1
Latest amendment listed is effective Nov. 1, 2023.
Your rights as a juror
- Mileage
- Mileage going to and returning from jury service each day under the State Travel Reimbursement Act1
- Must your employer pay you?
- No. Employers need not pay wages. The employee decides whether to use paid leave or take leave without pay2
- Job protection
- After notice, an employee may not be fired or face adverse action for jury service or be made to use leave. Misdemeanor with fine up to $5,0002
- Postponing or being excused
- Service is automatically postponed if the employer has five or fewer full-time employees and another employee was summoned for the same period2
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
- 28 O.S. 86, CounselStack (secondary), checked 1 November 2026
- 38 O.S. 34, Justia (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.