diff --git a/src/main.go b/src/main.go
index f8ea35d..6ab7f75 100644
--- a/src/main.go
+++ b/src/main.go
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ var (
     MaxTxWeight = 4000000
     BlockHeaderWeight = 320
     MaxTotalWeight = 4000000 - BlockHeaderWeight
+    MaxFee = 20616923
 
 )
 
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ func LogDetailsAboutTx(tx txn.Transaction){
 }
 
 func main() {
-    picker := txnpicker.NewTransactionPicker(MempoolDirPath, MaxTxWeight, MaxTotalWeight)
+    picker := txnpicker.NewTransactionPicker(MempoolDirPath, MaxTxWeight, MaxTotalWeight, MaxFee)
     txns := picker.PickUsingPQ()
     candidateBlock := mining.GetCandidateBlock(txns, true)
     mining.MineBlock(candidateBlock, OutputFilePath)
diff --git a/src/txnpicker/picker.go b/src/txnpicker/picker.go
index e1c2213..1bd80b3 100644
--- a/src/txnpicker/picker.go
+++ b/src/txnpicker/picker.go
@@ -11,28 +11,34 @@ type TransactionsPicker struct {
     MempoolDirPath string
     MaxTxWeight int
     MaxTotalWeight int
+    MaxFees int
 }
 
-func NewTransactionPicker(mempoolDirPath string, maxTxWeight int, maxTotalWeight int) TransactionsPicker {
-    return TransactionsPicker{MempoolDirPath: mempoolDirPath, MaxTxWeight: maxTxWeight, MaxTotalWeight: maxTotalWeight}
+func NewTransactionPicker(mempoolDirPath string, maxTxWeight int, maxTotalWeight int, maxFees int) TransactionsPicker {
+    return TransactionsPicker{MempoolDirPath: mempoolDirPath, MaxTxWeight: maxTxWeight, MaxTotalWeight: maxTotalWeight, MaxFees: maxFees}
 }
 
 
+
 // PickTransactionsUsingPQ picks valid transactions from the mempool using priority queue. Transaction with higher fee/weight ratio is considered to be high priority. 
 func (tp *TransactionsPicker) PickUsingPQ() []*txn.Transaction {
     q := getTxnsQ(tp.MempoolDirPath)
     txns := make([]*txn.Transaction, 0)
     totalWeight := 0
+    totalFee := 0
 
     item := q.Pop(); 
     for item != nil {
         tx := txn.Transaction(item.(Item))
         weight := tx.GetWeight()
+        fee := tx.GetFees()
         fmt.Printf("Weight of the transaction: %d\n", weight)
         fmt.Printf("Txid: %x\n", utils.ReverseBytes(tx.TxHash()))
-        if(weight+ totalWeight < tp.MaxTotalWeight) {
+        if((weight+ totalWeight < tp.MaxTotalWeight) && (fee + totalFee < tp.MaxFees)) {
             txns = append(txns, &tx)
             totalWeight += weight
+            totalFee += fee
+
         }
         item = q.Pop()
     }