AIBU to be surprised that some people are still paid weekly?

Im in ireland - I think its common in construction & trades to be paid weekly. It makes no difference to me as I just plan either way.

When we first lived together I was paid monthly and DH was paid weekly. It was brilliant for budgeting.

I had a friend who was paid every four weeks and got 13 wages a year. As long as he budgeted carefully, he could consider one wage a year as essentially free money as he’d get two wages that month and all of his monthly expenses had already been paid. He’d only have his day-to-day expenses to consider

I get paid monthly in my main job but I’ve got 2 locumn ad hoc jobs that I pick up a few shifts a month. One pays weekly and a I pay NI on it. The other pays monthly and I can do 2 shifts a month without paying NI.
I prefer monthly generally because I have a ton of payments that come out a few days after my main payday. I put most of my spending in a credit card and pay it monthly.

The team at our place of work are paid weekly. I was until recently. We have offered to put people on monthly but I think some
would struggle with the transition as it’s what they’ve always known.
it is quite a traditional way to get paid. I hated getting paid weekly I found it much harder to budget.

My company employs some agency workers who are paid from £350 to £850 per day. All are paid weekly by their agencies, so it’s not just low paid workers who receive weekly pay.

I've mostly been paid monthly but when I did supply or agency work it was weekly.

Now I'm on a mix of pension (taken early due to ill health) and benefits.

My pension is paid monthly
ESA is paid every two weeks
PIP is paid every 4 weeks

Sometimes I feel rich because all three hit my account in a couple of days.

My aunt used to be paid every 4 weeks, she liked it because it was like being paid monthly, then one month it feels like you are paid double.

I get paid 4 weekly which is I find annoying would much rather prefer monthly.

Getting paid weekly is actually much better.
It's only the rent you need to be careful of.

I used to get paid weekly
Absolutely miss it.

When I began full time work (1960s) i was paid monthly by bank transfer. My father really resented it and kept making snide remarks about "you with your bank account and your cheque book". Neither of my parents had a bank accout until the late 1970s. My mother was useless at coping with the fact that she got 4 weeks "keep" from me and always ran out at the end of the second month. When she tried to scrounge more money out of me I used t lend it to her and take it back the following month. She never did learn to budget weekly. I used to draw out enough for the month, divide it into the 4 weeks and keep it in my drawer. One month money went missing. After that I kept it in my locker in work. Its a terrible thing to realise that someone in your family is a thief.

In my last job (teacher in an independent school) I was paid monthly in the middle of each month.

It might be significant that the school fees mostly came in at the start of term, rather than every month.
At the other two independent schools I was still paid at the end of the month.

My partner is 4 weekly and its a massive ballache when it falls you get paid the day after all your direct debits come out we always have to be a month ahead of ourselves

Just be greatful they aren't paid in tesco voucher like a poster on a previous thread thought was acceptable for a cleaner.

DH is a bus driver and paid weekly. He was on the railway before which was 4 weekly which is actually much more of a pain to deal with for bills. Weekly we make sure different things come out on different weeks and it’s fine. I like that we’ve never had a “long month” like monthly pay brings.

My partner is a HGV driver and is paid weekly. It works well for us as I'm paid monthly, so my wages go into the 'bills' account and cover the monthly bills (mortgage, gas, electric, council tax, etc), and his wages go into the 'spends' account and cover things like food, petrol, clothes, etc.

Four-weekly is common on the railways. It's great, once a year payday leapfrogs the mortgage direct debit and I get a mortgage-free pay month.

I’m paid monthly but my husband is paid weekly. Works really well for us. My salary hits just before all the direct debits come out and then DH salary tops up each week. He works shifts and gets a different shift allowance each week. He also does a lot of overtime. He says it’s more of an incentive to do overtime if you know you are going to get paid it the next week. I budget on his base salary. We use shift allowance and overtime plus my second job to cover University

Macdonalds pay fortnightly

I run payroll for several clients, and the weekly ones are all hospitality and retail outlets.

I'm in Ireland and..

Retail job was paid weekly
Manufacturing industry job was paid fortnightly.
Professional services job was paid monthly.

Teachers I know seem to be paid twice a month...I think the first payment is like an advance and then they get the monthly payslip with the remainder of the pay at the end of the month.

Dh has worked in the food industry (food production, haulage, or in supermarkets) on and off all his working life. Generally the staff were paid weekly and management were paid monthly- except Sainsburys who paid 4 weekly when he worked for them. It was really annoying having 13 paydays pwr year because payday moved a few days each month, so it made setting up direct debits awkward.

I get my state pension weekly, DH gets his and his IIDB weekly. We also pay our rent and council tax weekly. It just works better for us. I have a daughter who gets three benefits, one weekly, one monthly and one 4 weekly (she doesn't live with us)

Same here (Ireland).

I'm paid fortnightly (teacher) and dh paid weekly (construction)

Never known any different and it works very well. There's never that January slump or post holidays there's always a wage coming in and we have our mortgage set up weekly .

Public and civil service are paid weekly or fortnightly depending on grade and they are the biggest employer by farm

My dh is weekly and I am fortnightly. Neither of us are lower paid

My mum was paid weekly when she worked for the council. I think it’s pretty common in lower paid jobs.