Rather than weekly or bi-weekly
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I lived in Asia and Europe and was paid monthly in both. Maybe North America is the anomaly? We are also paid biweekly in Canada.
Weekly payment usuallu for part time workers. Also for construction site labourers, this week they are here next week they on another site
Now to mess with your head. There are some employers that pay every 4 weeks. If you budget your monthly out goings against your 4 weekly salary you end up with a spare month every now and again Z
I’m in europe and find the monthly approach nice and simple. India also had all payments and expenses on a monthly instead of weekly or bi-weekly basis. I am more curious why is it bi-weekly in the US?
Why are all of these comments assuming people in the US get paid bi-weekly? Many people in the US just get paid twice per month (the 1st and 16th, etc.). That’s 24 payments per month, rather than 26 for bi-weekly. It doesn’t really change the monthly budgeting calculus at all.
As an American who gets paid monthly I hated it at first and thought it was very strange, even sketchy. Now I have grown to like it. It’s easy to manage bills and see me monthly savings.
I’m in the US and get paid monthly. I wouldn’t have it any other way. Makes budgeting super trivial. No worries about paycheck dates drifting in relation to bill due dates. I get all of my money once a month and I know exactly what I need to put back for bills, I know how much I want to save, and I know how much I have to spend. Easy.
You are getting paid weekly? 😮
Why does the entire world use metric rather than use imperial? This question has a tiny little regional bias… It’s probably more valid to ask why in the US so many companies pay people biweekly when all over the world monthly is pretty standard.
I think America is the odd-one-out here, much of Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania gets paid Monthly.
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