# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/21 "2010-10-13T22:53:14Z")
When I was working we officially got paid every other Wednesday. But we were actually paid every other Thursday. (The paychecks were issued on Wednesdays but they weren’t valid until the next day.) Now that I’m retired I get a check on the first of the month. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/22 "2010-10-13T22:54:19Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > I was thinking about this and I have had a job where my paycheck was issued, every day of the week. Out of curiousity, was that a biblical practice? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/23 "2010-10-13T23:56:49Z")
When we started our business I’d get paid whenever I begged for it. Then once we had regular money it was every two weeks on a Friday. Then I was like “wait, I can pay us however I wan to.” So I started every week, on a Friday. Then I realized there was absolutely no reason to wait a week to pay ourselves for the previous week. So now I run payroll every week on Monday, scheduling direct deposit for Wednesday. Me and the other employee get our money late on Tuesday but I think the other guy, who doesn’t use a credit union, has to wait until late Wednesday. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/24 "2010-10-14T01:21:13Z")
I get paid the 1st of the month from my disability check. Mom gets paid the 20th, which seems to be the standard for teachers around here. Dad gets paid every other Wednesday. Only my sister, who gets paid every Friday, fits the idea of the OP. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/25 "2010-10-14T01:54:44Z")
Technically every second Friday, but it gets direct deposited Thursday at midnight. I get my statement in the mail usually Thursday or Friday. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/26 "2010-10-14T01:57:35Z")
I’m self-employed. I put checks from clients into the business account whenever they come in. Then I transfer money from that account to my personal account whenever I need money for bills. Usually the money coming in keeps up with the money going out, but sometimes there is a lag in collections and I have to wait (and postpone paying bills) until it catches up. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/27 "2010-10-14T03:36:25Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > I get my paystub every other Friday (or three times this month. Woo!) > > I get paid directly to my bank Thursday at midnight. This. I think I’ve been paid in the past every day of the week except Sundays and Tuesdays. Mondays when I worked at the bar, Wednesdays when I worked at the car plant, Thursdays at the poultry plant, Fridays at this job, Saturdays at one retail job and the first and fifteenth at several office jobs. ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/28 "2010-10-14T04:03:30Z")
I don’t know. I was hoping this thread would help me to find out. Anybody ever work for a state government with a confusing system? I think it has something to do with being paid twice a month = 24 checks whereas 52 weeks /2 = 26. I’m paid usually in the second week of the month the 11th through the 14th and at the end of the month 25th through 28th. I have a salary and my checks are all the same but are for different amounts of hours, so my hourly wage actually fluctuates depending on how many days are in the pay period. ---
**Author:** ![Driver8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Driver8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Driver8)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/29 "2010-10-14T05:03:11Z")
I get paid on the 1st and the 15th of every month. My wife gets paid every second Friday. When I moved to the United States from South Africa I found being paid roughly twice a month to be weird, it is more normal in South Africa for salaried employees to be paid once a month. I think mine came in on the last working day of each month. ---
**Author:** ![AmunRa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@AmunRa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmunRa)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/30 "2010-10-14T05:05:35Z")
My most recent job paid on the last working day before the 1st and 15th of each month (if the first is on a Tuesday I get paid the first, if the 15th is on a Sunday, or Monday federal holiday I would get paid Friday). It was direct deposit and for whatever reason the money usually appeared in my account a full day before “pay day.” My high school minimum wage job paid every other Friday, no direct deposit. I usually just picked up the check on the next day I was scheduled. ---
**Author:** ![Hokkaido\_Brit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d26b3c/32.png) [@Hokkaido\_Brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokkaido_Brit)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/31 "2010-10-14T10:13:14Z")
I am self employed but the students’ direct deposits are taken on the 28th of the month, or later if there is a holiday in the way. It usually arrives in my account around the 1st of the next month. My husband is paid on the 18th so we have income roughly every two weeks, which is nice. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/32 "2010-10-14T10:31:23Z")
My current agent pays me on the 30th of each month (the bill from 30sh days before) or the closest working day. I had a different agent who paid on the 10th of each month (the bill received before the 4th of the same month) or the next working day. I’ve got an automatic payment from my “company” account to my “me” account, set to go on the 1st of each month or the next working day and labeled “paycheck”. Receiving a regular “paycheck” into that account means 1% less interest on my mortgage 🙂 and transfers labeled “paycheck” also pay less expenses than other kinds, so it’s nice. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/33 "2010-10-14T10:36:44Z")
Sixth day of the month for me, and paid mostly in advance (i.e. payment on October 6th covers October 1 - 31). When the 6th is on a weekend or holiday, it usually (but not always) comes in on the Friday before. Oddly, the amount varies depending on the number of days in the month. I’m not sure if this is a common thing - I assumed most businesses just divided annual salary by 12 when paying monthly. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/34 "2010-10-14T10:56:38Z")
Except for some low paid-by-the-hour jobs, getting paid weekly seems to have fallen out of favour in the UK. I’ve only ever been paid monthly, either the last Friday of the month or the last day of the month, directly into my bank account, and this is true of everyone I know. A few years ago my (now ex) husband worked for a US company that brought their US practices to the UK, such as office workers like my ex wearing a uniform and being paid weekly. This was actually a major pain at the time as all our bills/mortgage payments etc were paid monthly, usually the first week of the month, and my husband was not noted for his budget control. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/35 "2010-10-14T10:59:24Z")
I’m paid monthly on the 25th, or the closest working day to the 25th. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/36 "2010-10-14T11:33:51Z")
Last business day of the month. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/37 "2010-10-14T11:45:01Z")
Every other Friday, and my direct deposit hits at 6 am. But the tiny allotment I have going to a second account is available to me on Thursday. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/38 "2010-10-14T13:18:02Z")
I don’t really know, actually. I’ve been too busy at work to ask, because it’s really not a priority. I’m pretty sure I do get paid, though. I know there was a mild SNAFU with my direct deposit, but I’m confident that it’s been ironed out. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/39 "2010-10-14T13:31:40Z")
Twice a month (15th and last day - or the last business day before either of those). **Typo Knig** gets paid every other Friday. In both cases, the direct deposit shows up the evening before. Every now and then, this results in a month with an “extra” payday which is always nice. I did have one job where I got paid weekly. In cash, no less, and this was a real employer, with taxes taken out and everything. It was a retail store and this was before credit cards were quite as common, so they had a lot of cash on hand. I used to have to go down to the other end of the mall on my break period, and deposit my pay at the bank branch. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038/40 "2010-10-14T13:32:02Z")
Wednesdays, every other week. I have direct depost to my bank but get a receipt from the payroll office. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-of-the-week-are-you-paid/557038.md?page=3)