Why is it the standard to be paid every month in Europe?

Question

Rather than weekly or bi-weekly

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Answer 1

In the UK at least, wages tended to be for less professional or more informal working arrangements. A salary was for professional like positions.

Wages were often paid in cash (hence wage packet, literally an envelope with a pay slip and the cash) while salary was a bank transfer or cheque once a month. Wages were generally less, so the people receiving them tended to be living more hand to mouth and needed more frequent pay just to survive.

As an example, my father moved jobs from being a machinist (wage earning) to office clerk (salaried). He always maintained he used more brain power and skill on the machine floor…