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Heshandsomeapartfromtheeyebags · 2024-12-19T22:45:36+00:00

Two friends this week have told me they get paid their wage when they finish work for Christmas (one tomorrow and one on Monday) I get paid at the end of the month as always I didn’t realise this was a thing?

Cooriedoon · 20/12/2024 07:31

We all got given 3 dates to choose from. I chose our usual date, last day of the month. The young ones chose to get theirs 2 weeks early. I learned my lesson there in my youth!

nwsw · 20/12/2024 07:31

Some companies pay early because their accountants close over the Christmas period.

Soccermumamir · 20/12/2024 07:30

Today, but I won't be touching it.

AnyoneSomeone · 20/12/2024 07:29

Today but we also get paid a few days earlier in January so don't have to wait 6 weeks until the next pay day.

Sallyingon · 20/12/2024 07:29

Usually get paid the last Friday of the month. We are getting paid.on Monday instead.

DarkForces · 20/12/2024 07:24

Today! Usually the 21st

Tinytigertail · 20/12/2024 07:22

We usually get paid on 25th but have been paid today (20th) which is useful for Christmas, but it's going to feel like a loooooong January!

BlackBean2023 · 20/12/2024 07:22

I got paid this morning, 6 days early. I've transferred it to a separate account with a transfer back scheduled for actual pay day.

Hippywannabe · 20/12/2024 07:15

Today plus the backdated payrise, normally paid on the 25th. I have put it into a different account until normal payday or else January seems to be really long. I will need to dip into the backdated bit but had budgeted in my head to do that for Xmas. Anything left from that bit on the 25th goes into savings.

ilikeeggs · 20/12/2024 06:53

I get paid the last day of the month like normal so the 31st

TheFairyCaravan · 20/12/2024 06:51

I don’t work due to illness but DH will get paid on the 31st. It’s always been that way, even when he was in the military. I would hate for him to get paid early, January is long enough already,

macshoto · 20/12/2024 06:49

Christmas Eve - always has been.

WillowTit · 20/12/2024 06:47

today

normally 24th

Mydogisamassivetwat · 20/12/2024 06:46

Dh and I both got paid on the 17th.

Its all gone into the savings account; we’ll move it over on the 29th when we usually get paid as we have a budgeting system.

Grievingxmas · 20/12/2024 06:46

Last 2 jobs, usually 25th but around 19th in December. It's fine, for example for this weekends bills childcare, shopping etc, this is still being paid from my November wages from my November budget. But I know I have the December disposable income to help with Christmas.

JackJarvisEsq · 20/12/2024 06:39

meganna · 19/12/2024 22:47

We get paid on the 20th every month, for the whole month, so that stays the same at Christmas.

exactly the same for me

although I think DH will get paid early when it’s usually not till the end of the month

Wolframandhart · 20/12/2024 06:37

We usually get paid on the 25th. It was ridiculously early this year. 10 days early. Ive not told my dh or he would have spent it by christmas.

NoWordForFluffy · 20/12/2024 06:34

PCOSisaid · 20/12/2024 06:12

I haven’t worked in any corporate job where you don’t get paid early at Christmas or for any other bank holiday, e.g if august bank holiday falls on payday you get paid the Friday before, or if if payday falls on a weekend, you also get paid the Friday before.

It’s usually because if there are any problems with payroll, it gives time for them to be rectified in working hours, also in the past a bank holiday would literally mean the banks are closed and no money could be transferred etc.

Yes, we get paid on the last working day before the pay is due as standard. We don't specifically get paid early for Christmas though. Whether we would if our pay date was 28th instead of 23rd, I don't know.

PCOSisaid · 20/12/2024 06:12

I haven’t worked in any corporate job where you don’t get paid early at Christmas or for any other bank holiday, e.g if august bank holiday falls on payday you get paid the Friday before, or if if payday falls on a weekend, you also get paid the Friday before.

It’s usually because if there are any problems with payroll, it gives time for them to be rectified in working hours, also in the past a bank holiday would literally mean the banks are closed and no money could be transferred etc.

Newcarforchristmas · 20/12/2024 06:12

I always get paid at the end of every month and Christmas doesn’t make a difference to that.
My husbands work usually pays early, before Christmas, but they actually did a vote this year and unanimously everyone wanted it to stay the same so that’s what they’re doing this year, which is so much better because it doesn’t make it a 6 week pay month!

XxSideshowAuntSallyx · 20/12/2024 06:12

20th but then in January it's the 24th so I only have 4 extra days to manage. Usual day is the 25th.

I used to get paid on the last working day January was always tough as December pay was always around the 20th.

EveryDayisFriday · 20/12/2024 06:05

meganna · 19/12/2024 22:47

We get paid on the 20th every month, for the whole month, so that stays the same at Christmas.

Me too.

Bewildened · 20/12/2024 06:03

Last working day of the month as always.

In my last job we were paid on 24th of the month (or Friday before if on a weekend) but got Christmas pay a week early - it was great!

Clarice99 · 20/12/2024 06:03

I got paid today. Usual pay day is the end of the month. I've moved the entire amount already to another account and will move (some of) it back to my current account at the end of the month.

HurdyGurdy19 · 20/12/2024 05:58

Normal payday is 27th of the month.

I got paid today, 20th December.

As always, I have transferred my pay out of my current account into my savings account, and will transfer it back on the 27th. Little bit of interest, and not making January feel like three months long