Washington — Compensation for jury service at federal courts around the country had languished 28 years without an increase, starting at a $40 daily rate that jurors in the nation’s capital recently called “abysmal,” below the federal minimum wage and a hardship.

In that same period since 1990, annual salaries for members of Congress have rocketed 80 percent, climbing to $174,000 a year from $96,600 before inflation.

But lawmakers on Friday got around to giving a pay raise to the more than 50,000 Americans who serve as federal jurors each year, adding the hike as part of the $1.3 trillion spending bill President Donald Trump signed on Friday.

Congress increased the pay by $10 a day — an amount that brings jurors closer to the federal minimum wage daily rate of $58 a day.