How often do you prefer to be paid?

[mrodgers]

I was weekly at my high school job. Biweekly ever since. Weekly or biweekly it doesn't matter to me.

Twice a month would be weird to me, but not that bad. I'm hourly, I'd guess this is a salary thing because figuring out overtime and such would be a nightmare with twice a month.

I wouldn't care for once a month. Not every bill would be ready to be paid only once a month. I would have to remember to go in and pay some of them when they were ready and would most likely get all messed up from that.

I would love to get paid just once.... from a lottery ticket and never get paid again

 

[tvguy]

Didn’t you and others notice right away and complain? It took a couple of years for the company to make it right??

Nobody noticed. The twice monthly pay period was in place before I started. In my case, it was my first and only salaried job. So no hours on the paycheck stub. And the checks were only short 3%, not enough for anyone to notice.

 

[TippyThomas]

In my younger days when money was more of an issue I would have preferred weekly just because I hadn't learned effective budgeting yet. Now I really have no preference because I just pay things as they come due. Heck, most of them just get auto-paid these days. I really don't have to do anything.

 

[kdonnel]

Nobody noticed. The twice monthly pay period was in place before I started. In my case, it was my first and only salaried job. So no hours on the paycheck stub. And the checks were only short 3%, not enough for anyone to notice.

I would notice 3%.

 

[disykat]

I definitely prefer monthly, but it's not a big deal that DH gets paid every other week now that we have enough of a slush fund to cover gaps.

Monthly was just so "clean." Same amount every month (as opposed to most months have two paychecks, some have 3, etc.) Budget matched income evenly, no need for "the insurance payment will come out of the 3rd paycheck next month so I'll take from savings and pay it back then."

I sit down once a month and check all my (and my parent's) accounts (most are on autopay) and it's nice to be able to go through the paychecks at the same time.

 

[tvguy]

I would notice 3%.

Worked out to about $20 a paycheck after taxes for me at my salary at that time. But I had had never been salaried before, so my checks were exactly the same amount every paycheck, no reason to check.

 

[ShirikiUtundu]

And by the way, Disboard, STOP sending me notices while I’m composing a reply to a post on my phone. It messes up my reply and IDGAD that someone else replied. I’ll see that reply soon enough; I don’t need to be informed of it.

Bah humbug to you too.

you should be able to turn that off under preferences

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Every two weeks is fine... I pretty much treat it monthly, and do everything once a month, however it is nice to have that 2 week interval so that just in case something were to come up in the middle of the month, you would have more in your account.

 

[AgentMama]

Nobody noticed. The twice monthly pay period was in place before I started. In my case, it was my first and only salaried job. So no hours on the paycheck stub. And the checks were only short 3%, not enough for anyone to notice.

It should have been immediately apparent the first year end when people received their W2s and their salary was short, even if missed during the year (I'm pretty sure I would pick that up within the 1st or 2nd paycheck).

I've been paid most of the ways listed throughout my career and really don't have a preference.

 

[tvguy]

It should have been immediately apparent the first year end when people received their W2s and their salary was short, even if missed during the year (I'm pretty sure I would pick that up within the 1st or 2nd paycheck).

I've been paid most of the ways listed throughout my career and really don't have a preference.

It was caught by a Mortgage Broker helping an employee get a mortgage. The pay check stubs and the stated salary didn't match up. Nobody else caught it. I think most people ignore their gross wage figures, since their net income is what they can spend.

 

[bcwife76]

Non-American here, what kind of companies pay weekly?
I think here it might only be temp agencies, don't think we have bi-weekly. The default is monthly, for I think 90-95% of the companies.

We are in Canada. My husband is a UPS driver and gets paid weekly.

 

[mom2rb]

I get paid on the 1st and 15th, DH every two weeks. I like it when our checks are spread out so that we always have money. I hated it when I was on the same two week schedule as him.

 

[Metro West]

We get paid bi-weekly...my old job paid once a month. That definitely took some getting used to.

 

[DisneyTeacher]

Other than college jobs I’ve only been paid once a month. I really like it but don’t know any different. The only time it is hard is new teachers waiting for their first check, it can be six weeks from the start of school in august to their first pay check at the end of September. We also don’t have a choice, we get paid over 12 months.

 

[cjlong88]

I have no preference. In my previous job I was paid monthly. Now I’m paid on the 15th and last day of the month. I guess if I had to choose I would select the latter.

 

[CallieMar]

Current job is monthly. Waiting for that first paycheck was a little painful, but now monthly is easier for me to budget for. Previous job was biweekly, then moved to weekly for a couple of years, then back to biweekly again. I was a little less financially stable back then so weekly was better.

 

[tzolkin]

My spouse and I are both paid monthly. When his job switched from biweekly to monthly everyone freaked out about how they would pay their bills.

 

[fla4fun]

I have been paid weekly, bi-weekly, and 1st/15th, and none seemed all that much better than another.

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

I am paid on the final working day of every month but would like bi-weekly.

 

[ncc1701]

Retired now but I preferred bi-weekly over twice a month. Think I only job that was paid weekly. It was a Summer job in College
DH, before he retired, was paid twice a month by his last employer . He was there over 30 years.