# What Day Of The Week Are You Paid? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 13, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038 "2010-10-13T19:42:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/1 "2010-10-13T19:42:51Z")
I was thinking about this and I have had a job where my paycheck was issued, every day of the week. Most commonly I have been paid on a Friday, but I have had pay day fall on every day of the week, including one job that paid the checks out on Sunday So what about you, what day of the week does your current payday fall on? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/2 "2010-10-13T19:44:39Z")
Since my payday falls on the last business day of the month, this cycle that’s a Friday. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/3 "2010-10-13T19:48:06Z")
Ostensibly Friday, but it hits my bank at 5:30 Thursday afternoon on the dot. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/4 "2010-10-13T19:48:57Z")
Every other Friday. (Salaried office job.) The Other Shoe recently acquired a p/t retail job that … pays every other Friday. (We’re off-schedule from each other, meaning $ trickles in a little more constantly, rather than in bursts. Which totally rocks!) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/5 "2010-10-13T19:50:52Z")
Thursdays. ---
**Author:** ![Skara\_Brae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/6 "2010-10-13T19:52:58Z")
I get paid on the 1st and the 15th, so whatever day that falls on…I think it is the earlier business day if it falls on a weekend. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/7 "2010-10-13T19:56:43Z")
Currently, and most of my jobs, every other Friday. My first job I got paid every Thursday. At a couple of points in my life, every day (I got paid cash [off the books] at the end of every day). ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/8 "2010-10-13T20:00:41Z")
First of the month; money will hit the account one day early or late if the 1[sup]st[/sup] falls on Saturday (our weekend is Friday+Saturday) ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/9 "2010-10-13T20:31:10Z")
Although this is the type of thread that could go in either place, I’m moving it from IMHO to MPSIMS at the request of Mr. **Markxxx** , the OP. Ellen Cherry ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/10 "2010-10-13T20:40:27Z")
I’m self employed so I get paid on whatever day it happens that there’s some money left after everything else has been paid. I do remember one job though, at which we were paid on Tuesday. Someone asked the boss why once because it seemed odd to him. The answer was that when payday was Friday guys from the warehouse would call him, or their supervisor to bail them out of jail. He didn’t like getting up at night, and after he moved payday to Tuesday the jailhouse calls slowed, and eventually stopped. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/11 "2010-10-13T20:48:32Z")
We have to pick up our checks in person at the main office every other Friday after 5:30 pm-no direct deposit, no mailing them, and no friend or relative picking it up for you. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/12 "2010-10-13T20:50:46Z")
I’m paid on the last business day of the month, so it varies just a bit from one month to another. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/13 "2010-10-13T21:08:35Z")
I get paid the 15th and the end of the month, but if these dates fall on a weekend then it is early, except during eclipses of the moon or St. Swithin’s day, when … That was when I stopped reading the document and went to read a manual written in Chinese English for relaxation. So the next one is Friday, unless it is Thursday. It is never late, at least. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/14 "2010-10-13T21:18:17Z")
I get my paystub every other Friday (or three times this month. Woo!) I get paid directly to my bank Thursday at midnight. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/15 "2010-10-13T21:27:06Z")
I’m paid fortnightly, on alternate Thursdays, directly into my bank account. Today is a pay day. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/16 "2010-10-13T21:35:53Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > I get paid the 15th and the end of the month, but if these dates fall on a weekend then it is early. This. With direct deposit, at 12:01 AM. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/17 "2010-10-13T21:41:20Z")
I am paid once a month. I shoot for the last Friday of the month, but sometimes the client has not paid his bill yet, so I have to pay us late. ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/18 "2010-10-13T21:53:15Z")
15th and last day of the month. My husband gets paid every second Wednesday. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/19 "2010-10-13T22:14:08Z")
Federal paydays are biweekly on Friday, but my pay is always in my account on Thursday morning. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/20 "2010-10-13T22:50:20Z")
15th and the last business day of the month. I miss every other Friday. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038.md?page=2)