Jury duty pay in Queensland.
Queensland pays $153.30 a day once you are empanelled, $51.30 if you attend but are not selected, and $204.60 a day after the 20th weekday. Employers add make-up pay for full-time and part-time staff: 10 days in the private sector, the whole trial in state and local government.
Your Queensland jury service
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| Component | Formula | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Empanelled, weekdays 1 to 20 | 15 × $153.30 | $2,299.50 |
| Attendance pay you keep | Taxable unless refunded to employer | $2,299.50 |
| Travel | 15 × $0.00 fare | $0.00 |
| Meals, jury allowed to separate | 0 × $18.00 + 0 × $30.50 | $0.00 |
| Employer pay, first 10 work days off | Base pay less court pay | $1,127.00 |
| Employer pay, later work days | Nothing under the NES | $0.00 |
| Total paid to you | Court pay kept + travel + meals + employer pay | $3,426.50 |
| Against your normal pay | 15 work days × $266.00, excluding travel and meals | -$563.50 |
Disclaimer: An estimate, not legal advice. It assumes the court sits on consecutive weekdays from your first day, and that your award or agreement adds nothing beyond the setting you chose. The court, not this page, decides what it pays you.
How the Queensland jury pay calculator works
Enter any days you attended without being empanelled, then the weekdays you served on the trial. Queensland counts the step-up by weekday of the trial: the 21st weekday you serve is the first at the higher rate. Weekends do not count toward the 20.
Then choose who employs you. Private sector staff get the National Employment Standards (NES) floor of 10 days. Queensland state and local government staff get make-up pay under the Queensland Employment Standards (QES) for the whole of jury service, worked out after travel as well as court pay is taken off. Casuals are left out of the QES maths for the reason set out below.
Jury Regulation 2017 (Qld), reprint current from 1 July 2026; Industrial Relations Act 2016 (Qld) s 119, reprint current from 1 January 2026; Fair Work Ombudsman, Jury duty, updated 10 August 2026 (retrieved 6 October 2026). Checked 7 October 2026.
Queensland jury pay rates from 1 July 2026
Schedule 2 of the Jury Regulation 2017 sets the amounts, and Queensland Courts publishes the same table. Each rate is per day or part of a day.
| Situation | Per day or part day |
|---|---|
| Attended under summons, not empanelled | $51.30 |
| Empanelled juror or reserve juror, weekdays 1 to 20 | $153.30 |
| Empanelled, each day served after the 20th weekday | $204.60 ($153.30 + $51.30) |
| After the 20th weekday, trial adjourned for a full day or you are not required | $153.30 less your earnings that day |
| Lunch, if the jury is allowed to separate | $18.00 |
| Dinner, if the jury is allowed to separate | $30.50 |
Jury Regulation 2017 Sch 2, as replaced by 2026 SL No. 61.
These amounts change every 1 July. Schedule 2 has been replaced by a new regulation each year from 2018 to 2026, so a figure such as $126.30 or $134.10 that you find elsewhere is an earlier year's rate.
Jury Regulation 2017 (Qld), reprint current from 1 July 2026; Queensland Courts, Payment for jury service, modified 1 July 2026. Checked 7 October 2026.
Travel and meal allowances in Queensland
Section 11 of the Regulation sets an order of preference. Where public transport is reasonably available you are reimbursed the fares. Where it is not, a taxi or booked hire vehicle fare is reimbursed. Driving yourself pays 40 cents a km, or 15 cents a km on a motorbike.
| Driving, each way | Each day at 40 cents a km |
|---|---|
| 10 km | $8.00 |
| 30 km | $24.00 |
| 50 km | $40.00 |
Computed for a return trip each day.
Lunch ($18.00) and dinner ($30.50) are paid only when the jury is allowed to separate. Queensland Courts does not pay parking fees, and it does not reimburse childcare or any other arrangement you make in order to serve.
Jury Regulation 2017 (Qld), reprint current from 1 July 2026; Queensland Courts, Payment for jury service, modified 1 July 2026. Checked 7 October 2026.
Does your employer have to pay you for jury duty in Queensland?
For most private sector workers the answer is the federal minimum. Full-time and part-time employees are paid for their first 10 days off work on jury duty: base pay for the ordinary hours they would have worked, less whatever the court paid them, with expense allowances such as travel and meals left out. Casuals receive nothing from the employer under the NES. Queensland Courts adds that anything beyond that depends on your award and any arrangement with your employer. The federal rules in full are in community service and jury duty leave.
Queensland government and local government employees are covered by the QES, and IR Act 2016 s 119 gives them more. For the whole period of jury service leave, with no 10-day limit, the employer pays the difference between your ordinary rate and the court's remuneration and allowances other than meal allowances. That means travel is deducted as well as court pay. It is due on or before the first practicable pay day after you hand over your attendance document (s 119(4)).
Private employers: unresolved. IR Act s 13(1) says the QES jury service leave provisions "may apply" to employers covered by the Fair Work Act. Queensland kept jury service out of its referral of powers to the Commonwealth, but only "except to the extent that the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cwlth), as originally enacted, deals with the matter", and the NES does deal with jury pay. The Office of Industrial Relations points private sector workers to the NES. No source says a private employer must pay beyond 10 days, so the calculator does not assume it. If it matters to you, ask the Fair Work Ombudsman or a lawyer.
If your employer does keep paying you, Queensland Courts asks you to give it your jury service allowances and a copy of your remittance advice or statement of attendance, which lists each day you attended and what was paid.
Fair Work Ombudsman, Jury duty, updated 10 August 2026 (retrieved 6 October 2026); Queensland Courts, Payment for jury service, modified 1 July 2026; Industrial Relations Act 2016 (Qld) s 119, reprint current from 1 January 2026; Industrial Relations Act 2016 (Qld) s 13, reprint current from 1 January 2026; Fair Work (Commonwealth Powers) and Other Provisions Act 2009 (Qld) s 3, reprint current from 1 December 2025; Office of Industrial Relations (Qld), Modern employment conditions. Checked 7 October 2026.
Long trials: after the 20th weekday and adjourned days
Once you have served more than 20 weekdays on a single trial, the court adds $51.30 a day, taking you to $204.60. If after that point the trial is adjourned for a full day, or you are not required, you are paid a daily allowance of $153.30, reduced by your earnings that day as decided by a sheriff (Regulation s 10(3)). If you do not give the sheriff those details for the day, nothing is paid for it (s 10(5)).
For a private sector employee on the NES, days 11 to 20 are the lean stretch: the employer has stopped paying and the court has not yet stepped up. A QES employee who is not needed at court on a day they would normally work must present for work at the earliest reasonable opportunity, if practicable (IR Act s 119(6)).
Casuals and the self-employed in Queensland
The court rates carry no employment test, so a casual or a self-employed juror is paid the same $51.30 or $153.30 as anyone else, with no higher rate for being employed.
Casuals
No NES jury pay comes from the employer. Whether QES s 119 reaches casuals is open: the section applies to "the employee" and does not expressly exclude casuals, while the QES carer's and bereavement leave sections deal with casuals by name, and the Office of Industrial Relations says casuals generally get no paid leave under the QES. The calculator therefore leaves casuals out of the QES make-up pay.
Self-employed
The court does not pay lost business income. The Jury Act 1995 allows a special payment for financial loss from being unable to run a business or earn while serving, but only if the trial continued for at least 30 days, and only on a written application to the Minister (s 64(2), (3)).
Jury Regulation 2017 (Qld), reprint current from 1 July 2026; Fair Work Ombudsman, Jury duty, updated 10 August 2026 (retrieved 6 October 2026); Industrial Relations Act 2016 (Qld) s 119, reprint current from 1 January 2026; Office of Industrial Relations (Qld), Modern employment conditions; Jury Act 1995 (Qld), reprint current from 30 March 2017. Checked 7 October 2026.
Tax and Centrelink
Queensland Courts says the attendance allowance is taxable: declare it on your tax return unless you refunded it to your employer, and declare it to Centrelink if you are unemployed. Meal and travel allowances do not have to be declared. The ATO's myTax instructions match: attendance fees you keep go in other income, and fees paid over to an employer who kept paying you are left out.
Queensland Courts, Payment for jury service, modified 1 July 2026; ATO, myTax 2026 Other income, updated 19 August 2026. Checked 7 October 2026.
Your job is protected in Queensland
Under Jury Act 1995 s 69, a person must not terminate anyone's employment, or prejudice them in it, because they are, were or will be absent on jury service. The maximum penalty is 1 year's imprisonment.
For QES employees, s 119(1) of the IR Act adds a right to take jury service leave, with a duty to tell the employer as soon as practicable. The Jury Act 1995 itself contains no express ban on requiring you to use annual leave for jury service.
Jury Act 1995 (Qld), reprint current from 30 March 2017; Industrial Relations Act 2016 (Qld) s 119, reprint current from 1 January 2026. Checked 7 October 2026.
Queensland jury pay worked examples
All five use the rates from 1 July 2026.
Mia, full-time in the private sector, Monday to Friday, 7.6 hours at $33.00 ($250.80 a day), empanelled on day 1 of a 25-weekday trial, takes the train. Court: 20 × $153.30 + 5 × $204.60 = $4,089.00. Employer under the NES: 10 × ($250.80 − $153.30) = $975.00, then nothing for days 11 to 25. She receives $5,064.00 against a normal $6,270.00, a $1,206.00 shortfall: 10 × $97.50 for days 11 to 20 and 5 × $46.20 for days 21 to 25. The $4,089.00 is taxable.
The same trial, with Mia employed by a Queensland government department under the QES. Her employer pays 20 × $97.50 + 5 × $46.20 = $2,181.00, and with the court's $4,089.00 she receives exactly her normal $6,270.00. Had she driven 30 km each way ($24.00 a day), s 119(3)(a) deducts that too, cutting the make-up to $73.50 a day for days 1 to 20.
Ben, part-time, attends 3 days without being empanelled, all on his usual work days at $250.80. Court: 3 × $51.30 = $153.90. NES make-up: 3 × $199.50 = $598.50, using 3 of his 10 NES days.
Jack, casual, empanelled for 5 weekdays. Court: 5 × $153.30 = $766.50. His employer pays nothing under the NES.
An adjourned day after the 20th weekday. Mia goes to work and earns $250.80. The daily allowance is $153.30 less $250.80, so $0 (Regulation s 10(3)).
Jury Regulation 2017 (Qld), reprint current from 1 July 2026; Queensland Courts, Payment for jury service, modified 1 July 2026; Fair Work Ombudsman, Jury duty, updated 10 August 2026 (retrieved 6 October 2026); Industrial Relations Act 2016 (Qld) s 119, reprint current from 1 January 2026; ATO, myTax 2026 Other income, updated 19 August 2026. Checked 7 October 2026.
Related calculators and guides
- Community service and jury duty leave, the NES rules behind private sector make-up pay.
- How much you get paid for jury duty in NSW, where the court rate steps up at day 11.
- Jury duty payment in WA, where employers pay full wages and claim them back.
- QLD leave calculator, long service leave and public holidays in Queensland.
- QLD pro-rata long service leave, the other QES entitlement that may reach private employers.
Sources
- Queensland Courts, Payment for jury service, modified 1 July 2026, retrieved 7 October 2026.
- Jury Regulation 2017 (Qld), reprint current from 1 July 2026, retrieved 7 October 2026 (Schedule 2 is replaced every year; the Regulation expires 1 October 2027).
- Jury Act 1995 (Qld), reprint current from 30 March 2017, retrieved 7 October 2026.
- Industrial Relations Act 2016 (Qld) s 119, reprint current from 1 January 2026, retrieved 7 October 2026.
- Industrial Relations Act 2016 (Qld) s 13, reprint current from 1 January 2026, retrieved 7 October 2026.
- Fair Work (Commonwealth Powers) and Other Provisions Act 2009 (Qld) s 3, reprint current from 1 December 2025, retrieved 7 October 2026.
- Office of Industrial Relations (Qld), Modern employment conditions, retrieved 7 October 2026 (no date shown on the page).
- Fair Work Ombudsman, Jury duty, updated 10 August 2026, retrieved 6 October 2026.
- ATO, myTax 2026 Other income, updated 19 August 2026, retrieved 7 October 2026.
Published 7 October 2026. Checked against these sources on 7 October 2026. This is general information, not legal advice.
Queensland jury duty pay questions.
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Does my employer have to pay me for jury duty in Queensland?
Do I get paid for jury duty in QLD if I am not selected?
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Do I get paid for parking or childcare during jury duty in QLD?
Do I give my jury pay to my employer in Queensland?
Is jury duty pay taxable in Queensland?
I am self-employed. Can I claim lost income for jury duty in QLD?
Can I be sacked for jury duty in QLD?
Do casuals get paid for jury duty in QLD?
Where the Queensland figures come from.
Court rates, meals and travel are from the Jury Regulation 2017 (Qld), reprint current from 1 July 2026, matched against the Queensland Courts payment page (modified 1 July 2026). Protection and the 30-day special payment are from the Jury Act 1995 (Qld) ss 64 and 69. QES make-up pay is from IR Act 2016 (Qld) ss 13 and 119, read on the official Queensland Legislation reprint current from 1 January 2026.
NES make-up pay follows the Fair Work Ombudsman (updated 10 August 2026), and tax the ATO's myTax 2026 instructions. Whether s 119 binds private employers, and whether it covers casuals, is left open in the sources, so the calculator applies neither. Rates reset each 1 July. Not legal advice.