POLL: How Often Do You Receive Your Paycheck?

Monthly. Love it. Took some getting used to but once I did, wouldn't go back to any other way if I had a choice

I get paid weekly by my daycare clients.

My husband gets paid every other Friday, regardless of date.
He has, in the past, gotten paid bi-monthly by date (1st and 15) and I hated that. It wasn't always evenly spaced out, if paydates fell on weekends or holidays that messed things up. It was inconsistent and confusing.

I get paid every other week on Wednesday.

Hubby gets paid the 15th and 29/30th of the month.

Plenty of $$$$$$ available throughout the month. We like it this way.

My husband gets paid every other week, on alternating weeks at two jobs. I get paid whenever I host a pop-up event or do a catering, as often as every week or as seldom as twice a month. Usually we have money coming in twice a week, once for him and once for me/us (he does the events with me but not usually the caterings).
The best pay schedule for us is making the money ourselves every day in our own restaurant and not waiting for someone else to pay us. In 2015, that is exactly what we plan to be doing!

What is this "paycheck" you speak of?!

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I get paid every two weeks. My husband gets paid every two weeks - opposite of my paycheck...so it's like we get paid weekly!! LOL!!

I prefer every two weeks. For a LONG time it was the 1st and 15th..but I prefer every two weeks.

I do NOT like weekly. It's also a hassle for payroll to do it every week.

I get paid twice a month. We're not on a tight budget so it doesn't matter but since most bills are monthly, I've always thought being paid monthly makes the most sense. I can see on a tight income the first weekly or biweekly pay checks missed would be tough but after that, it shouldn't matter. People shouldn't spend more in a month than they make so being paid monthly would seem to make it clearer when someone is over spending. But just my opinion.

Monthly. It requires some planning but it's fine.

In general I get paid every other Friday... except that I don't get paid from mid June through August and then for September they pay us a couple of weeks in a row and then don't pay us for three weeks in an effort to get people their first checks quickly.

In my old school district we got paid on the first of the month.

I actually liked monthly better because you had ALL your money and could budget in your own way. I paid all my bills at the beginning of the month (no matter when they were due) and took care of stuff early, so I always really knew what I had. With this two week schedule I still pay most bills at the beginning, but that leaves almost nothing until the next check comes in.

Every other Friday.

I used to be paid bimonthly, and it was annoying as heck! Lol.

Every other Friday. DH gets paid bimonthly.

I would prefer every Friday, but this is fine. Once a month is hard.

We're on SSDI so we get paid once per month on the 3rd.

I get child support every Tuesday from one of my grand kids dads, he get paid every Friday.

I get child support from the other grand kids dad every other Saturday. He gets paid every other week.

On one hand I like getting paid once per month for the main income, it pays the big bills and buys groceries. Then when I get child support through out the month it pays for things like pull ups, laundry soap I forgot that first week of the month and stuff we run out of.

So my perfect preference would be for one person to get paid once per month and the other adult get paid every week.

Most jobs I've had I was paid every two weeks. Seems about right.
My husband gets paid once a month, on the tenth (random, right?)

My pay check is every other week on friday...I do direct deposit. Feels like I never see my money....hubs is self employed and money either tickles, gushes, or just doesn't come in at all..having a long dry spell and I am so worried.

I am a teacher and get paid once a month on the 10th. Would prefer 2 times a month. I wish I had the good feeling more often when I get paid!

I seem to be the odd man out. I have two jobs, I get paid weekly at both of them. I have also worked jobs that pay bi-weekly and monthly. Of the three, I personally prefer weekly.

I get paid once a month. It took some time to get used too, but I do like it this way now. I pay all my bills at the first of the month. Some months the 1st can come soon enough though.

My husband is bi weekly. I am semi monthly and I hate it! Makes it a pain in the butt to set up my bill pay. I wish they would go over to bi weekly but due to an odd issue that will never happen.

I get paid every other week and the hubby is twice a month. He was once a month for years and years, and I was weekly for over a year. I miss weekly.

I get paid via direct deposit twice a month, on the 15 and the final day of the month, or if that's on a weekend, the Friday just before. I wish I got paid weekly or every other week because there are a few times during the year when a paycheck that I'm used to lasting for two weeks worth of groceries, gas, etc. has to last three

I get paid every other Thursday. Love this interval. Love that it's Thursday and not Friday. I used to get paid every week and I wasn't super crazy about that. Every other week gives me sort of like a "bonus" paycheck twice a year when there are 3 pay dates in one month. Oct happens to be one of those months - woo hoo!!

My husband is salaried and gets paid on the 6th and 21st of each month. I hate that schedule. His payday falls on a different day of the week all the time and it makes budgeting tricky sometimes.

My husband is paid on the 15th and 30th of each month. He's got direct deposit and the money is always in the bank by midnight the previous day; sometimes a few days earlier.

I'm a SAHM, so no pay. When I did work, I billed clients every two weeks and was paid on the same day unless they had previously worked it out with me. Worked out fine.

My husband and I get paid on the same day every two weeks. It works.

I get paid every other week. My previous job paid on the 1st and the 15th. Between the two, I prefer getting paid every other week for the reason Sarah H. mentioned - three checks in one month two times per year.

I get paid twice a month-5th and the 20th-direct deposit. I would prefer bi weekly. Thank goodness I was able to negotiate, with some companies, the due date on a couple bills (insurance).

Bi-weekly for me. Every other Friday! Yay!!
Hubby is 15th and 30th. twice a month.

I love getting paid every other week especially when there are three Fridays in the month like OCTOBER!!! =)

My husband gets paid once a week, I like it that way because it makes it super easy to budget.

I honestly don't know. There is always enough in the chequing account to pay the bills, so it's not really important. I'm thinking it's bi-weekly or twice a month.

Fortnightly on Thursday. Almost everybody in my country is paid fortnightly on Thursday

We both get paid every other week.
And, as luck would have it, on opposite weeks!
So every Friday is payday in our house.
It's perfect.

Bi-Weekly(26-Paychecks per year). I get paid on the Friday and My husband gets paid on the Thursday. We get paid the same week.

I like the one we're on.

I get paid on the 15th and last day of the month. My husband is every other week. I like the every other week because that third paycheck a month twice a year is always a nice little surprise.

I get paid weekly. I like the idea of getting a paycheck every week, but I am terrible at budgeting. So, I would do better if I got paid biweekly or monthly because I do better with a bigger lump of money...if that makes sense...LOL

Hi,
I get paid monthly and my husband gets paid bi-weekly. This arrangement works perfect for us!

Good Luck!

Both my husband and I get paid biweekly (26 paychecks a year). It is great because it is on alternating weeks. We are paid every Friday.

I once worked where I was paid once a month and I hated that!

I would prefer once a month, right at the beginning (or the last day of the month) so I can pay all the bills for the month in one swoop and know exactly what I have left to work with.

Hubs get's paid every two weeks which is a pain, I have to pay the bills in two shifts. I get paid once a month (the last day).

I used to get only 10 paychecks a year, then 11, since I work in school. This is the first year I will get 12, hallelujah. I hated having to bank a bunch of money for the summer months.

I run our payroll on the 1st and the 15th of the month.

I'm the CFO/Co-Owner of our company and I run the payroll. I schedule hubby to be paid on the 1st and myself and my daughter are paid on the 15th.

So.....we are each paid once a month. This works easier for me as far as my bookkeeping for filing and paying the appropriate taxes on payday.

Twice a week. If I could choose it would be the same.

My husband's paycheck is deposited into our checking account every two weeks on Friday. We like it this way.

We love it even more when there are 3 Fridays in one month!

Hubby gets paid on the 1st & 15th. I think it works well for budgeting and bills.

Years ago when I taught, we got paid once a month and only for 10 months (we had an annual salary, but they broke it into 10 months instead of 12). That was hard!

Every other Friday. With direct deposit it's actually there on Thursday. Ever since my first ever job that was the way I was paid and that's the way my husband has always been paid. It works just fine for us.

My preference is bi-weekly. When my husband and I were paid like that, we paid our mortgage that way and made an extra payment per year.

We are both currently on bi-monthly (1st and 15th). I dislike it for so many reasons, but it gets everything paid on time still.

It was also okay when I was paid on the 1st (for the whole month) and he was paid bi-weekly.

He is also retired Navy so on the 1st we get that as well.

My husband gets paid every other Friday and I get paid on the 1st of every month.

When I worked it was monthly. I liked this pay schedule and would choose it again.

My husband and I both get paid on the 1st and 15th ~ we can't choose, we just make it work.

we both have direct deposit. mine goes in twice per month, his every other week (which sounds like the same thing but isn't, quite.)
khairete
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Every two weeks. It works well and I have no issues with it. Monthly would be less fun. Twice a month is so similar to every two weeks I'd be fine with that too. Weekly seems like overkill.

Every 2 weeks was what I use to get when I had a job.
Same for my husband (but his fell on opposite weeks from mine - so a check was always coming in).
It worked well for 27 years and if I had a choice I'd do it the same way.

Weekly and I prefer it.

We both get paid every two weeks. I preferred getting paid on the 15th and last day of the month - made budgeting easier

Semi-monthly. At my company, hourly employees get paid weekly and salaried get paid on the 1st and 15th.

We do benefits administration and semi-monthly is the most common payroll schedule for our clients.

I like semi-monthly. It works well for splitting up the bills...half the mortgage with each paycheck, a few bills at the beginning of the month, a few at the end.

At my company, the rationale behind two pay schedules is that hourly employees are usually lower wage earners and some live paycheck to paycheck and really need that check every week. Salaried employees usually make more so getting paid twice a month (which saves our company a lot of money vs weekly) isn't a hardship.

My husband gets paid weekly and I think he'd have a hard time moving to something else but like all things, he would eventually adjust.

When I worked full time, we had an option: first of the month; or 1st and 15th of the month.

For people who are good at budgeting and investing, they chose the 1st of the month, as they liked to earn that extra interest.

For people who live pay check to pay check, they go with the later.

That was salaried, I don't know what the hourly staff options were.

And my realtor friends only get paid after a sale, so none of those options.

I am in the small once a month club and like the others said, it took getting used to but now I love it. I impulse spend a lot less because I have to milk the money through and never know when or if I will have an emergency. I buy food once in the beginning of the month and that makes less impulse food shopping.

I make a list for the next month's expenditures.

What does it matter what we think on this topic?