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35 points

What’s a middle of the month paycheck? Are some people getting paid twice a month?

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Every job I’ve had paid every other week.

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I’ve only heard of jobs paying monthly or weekly here in the UK.

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1st and 15th is common. Every Friday is common. Every other Friday is common too.

^ my experience the past 4 decades in the USA.

I’ve never had monthly but that would be dope.

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8 points

Fortnightly here in Australia.

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Interesting. Every job I’ve ever had paid biweekly as well. I’m in the USA. Sometimes even enormous hoops were jumped through in order to provide it on that schedule.

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Everywhere I worked in North America (USA and Canada) paid bi-weekly.

Everywhere I’ve worked in Europe (Germany and UK) paid monthly.

I would guess that this is just a difference in norms

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9 points

Most places in the US pay semi-monthly (twice a month) or bi-weekly (every other week)

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3 points

Do bills also come twice a month? Like, do you pay your rent, mortgage insurance, internet, tv, cell phone, etc. every two weeks?

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5 points

Bills are once a month.

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I pay most of my bills with my end of the month paycheck and the middle of the month paycheck is for necessities/savings/fun stuff. Mostly necessities/savings though.

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Some places pay you twice a month. On the 15th of the month and on the last day of the month. The benefits being that it’s easy to understand, easier on payroll and aligns with most business cycles and for employees is easier to plan your expenses. Cons being that it’s good for salaried employees and bad for hourly employees.

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2 points

Fortnightly seems to be the norm here in Australia

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Ive never not been paid weekly. Ive worked labourer jobs, technical trade jobs, and office jobs, and all have paid me weekly.

Fortnightly would be annoying. Monthly would be a nightmare.

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4 points

Monthly is just fine if you understand it’s the same amount of money regardless.

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In the US, “most” corporate jobs are two weeks (26 pays).

For a while bi-monthly was popular in some sectors ( 1st and 15th usually)

Monthly happens but it’s extremely rare.

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