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

I’m a self-employed dog walker and lots of my clients pay me weekly. I prefer it to when I got monthly pay as I know I always have a set amount hitting my account each Friday.

I've never been paid anything but fortnightly, except when I worked for an agency and was paid weekly, and I loved it too (retired now and getting fortnightly superannuation payments). I would hate to be paid monthly. Fortunately it isn't common here (not UK).

The whole civil service, guards, nurses and army are all paid biweekly in ireland. Most people who work in shops, cleaners, hairdressers, beauticans and builderrs and factorys are paid weekly. The only monthly jobs are usually office and pharma.

'Genuinely baffled' - pffft I get paid monthly, I've been paid four weekly and weekly. You sound like an outrageous fake would be snob. Imagine, people have different experiences of life to you. I'd suggest have a good titter to yourself about how old fashioned you deem that to be, then get out there and meet people outside your little bubble.

One of my jobs is monthly, the other is weekly. The monthly one is a salaried wage, the weekly one per hour and is a bit more over the month than the other. Tbh I always do the same hours each week in both though.

The monthly one gets mostly used up on bills and direct debits (and savings) the weekly one pays off whatever I’ve bought that week on the credit card (groceries mainly) and covers any other spending.

If I had to move to just weekly the first month would be an adjustment making sure there was enough in the account to cover the bills and direct debits but after that it would be fine.

But equally some months are five weeks, so with your logic they get a week unpaid.

I do our payroll and all bar one have it weekly. I prefer running it weekly as easier to check hours etc as all the employees hours change daily.

My ds gets paid weekly. He works full time shifts in a wood processing plant, He’s management and they all get paid weekly. Even new starters.

it also depends on the type of contract you have too. My late dh worked in a factory and had done for 11 years, He started on a contract that paid fortnightly but over the years new starters were given monthly pay contracts.

I’m paid in the middle of the month, so roughly two weeks in arrears, two weeks in advance.

Crew on the projects I work on are paid weekly, which is standard for the entertainment industry.

As for budgeting, you get used to it. The hard bit is moving from one type to the other but it’s fine once you adjust. What really gets me is the loons who don’t save for their VAT and tax return payments. January when tax returns are filed can be a bit fraught.

I live in Ireland and am paid every Friday.

Hi Im fortnightly school job. Husband weekly. Monthly was hard at xmas stretching it into Jan. I like fortnightly. I temped that was weekly

So do what I do and put the equivalent per week in a bills account.

I forgot my mobile actually, that's monthly but it's £7.90 so could pay on a weekly wage

I am a supply teacher. I have been.for 11 years, and it's always been weekly.

Dh gets paid weekly, until just before covid he was paid cash in a brown envelope each week with his pay slip, then they progressed to a cheque, it’s now paid into the bank. He’s worked for this company for over 30 years.

all goes into his bank account each week and all the bills come off that account, my monthly wage is for spending and saving.

Why ever not? The only bill I have monthly is council tax so just put amount each week aside for that

I've worked in 2 food factories, and whilst the management/admin staff were all paid monthly, the staff on the factory floor were paid weekly.

DH was paid weekly until he got his current job a couple of years ago. It worked well for us budgeting wise as I got paid monthly so that got put into one account for bills and direct debits, then DH’s wage was our weekly shopping/petrol/spending money. We got so used to it that now he’s paid monthly we stick it in a separate account and pay a bit into our main joint account each week!

It's very common in the hair and beauty industry. I've only ever known weekly pay, I'd find monthly difficult.

I'm also in Ireland. Anyone I know that's on an hourly wage gets paid weekly. Anyone on a salary gets paid monthly, except for a few seconded civil servants near retirement age whose contracts still says fortnightly.
I'm surprised that you think weekly pay is surprising, to be honest.

I'm paid weekly and earn £75k/year in the film industry. I like it as there's always money in my account. I've never done a budget in my life and wouldn't want to, which I guess maybe I'd have to do it I was paid monthly.

My husband is paid weekly always has been hes never been paid monthly. Im paid monthly

I’m paid weekly at Amazon and that’s a huge employer

I’m in Ireland, both myself and husband are paid weekly, always have been. Not very fancy jobs obviously 😄 I was self employed for a long time and paid myself weekly then too. I think I was paid a mix of monthly and weekly when I worked abroad but that was years ago. Surely monthly wages need to be divided up some bit to go by week anyway, why would it be hard to manage? Unless someone was inclined to flitter their money as soon as they got it.

Yep. I work for a large us firm and the norm is bi-weekly pay so that’s how we’re all paid worldwide. It’s ideal. and twice a year you have 3 pay packets within the month so it feel like a bonus month

We also when we took out our mortgage (I’m not even sure you can do this any more) opted for bi-weekly payments instead of monthly. By doing this we knocked I believe just under 23K in interest off the final amount

I work in railway.
We are all paid 4 weekly. 🤦🏻‍♀️
We get 13 pay days a year.
You basically end up with a "free" month as you have a month were we are paid twice.
It took me a while to get used to it!