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

This is interesting I recently learned from one of my US colleagues that it’s the norm there for most people to be paid fortnightly which I had no idea about and sounds great to me!

My DH works as a consultant on a contractor basis in public sector and is paid weekly.
We also use freelancers at my company and pay them weekly if they wish to invoice that often but many don’t . A bit different as it’s not payroll but still another type of person being paid more than monthly !

I just have a set amount per week leave my account and go into the joint account where bills are paid from. Anything left over is therefore my own.

I work for a massive global company. I am paid weekly. I think some of our newer acquisition companies might be paid monthly, as emails at Xmas about when we will get paid mentions something about monthly paid associates, but as far as I know, everyone employed for the main company is paid weekly. I know a new starter in my team messaged Easter week to ask if anyone else hadn’t been paid on the Thursday and I owe him know that on weeks with a bank holiday we get it on the Friday instead - suggests he too is on a weekly pay schedule.

I'm a supply teacher, and I'm paid weekly.

I massively prefer it to monthly pay now, as the money in my account stays pretty constant all month long. I'm not running on fumes, waiting for payday!

DP is paid weekly. He transfers a set amount into the joint household account every Friday and I put my share in when I get paid on the 28th. It's great as there is always £ in the account for the weekly food shop at the end of the month.

ETA He is on a much better hourly wage than me so it's not just a "low paid" thing.

The last place DH worked used Wagestream. I think it’s a brilliant idea.

My DH is in the construction industry and paid weekly. All the site staff are but office staff are monthly I believe. Even though he's no longer site based, they just kept him on weekly.
It's nothing to do with being low paid, as a pp suggested, the site lads are earning more than a lot of the office staff.

I'm paid monthly and we share finances. My pay goes straight into bills account to cover all DDs for month and rest into savings. We then use DH weekly pay for food, spending, hols and Christmas saving, and a pot for other irregular spending throughout the year.

Having one weekly and one monthly actually works really well

My DS is an agency worker and is paid weekly. I think it's still quite common.

Paud weekly, I love it, such a good pick me up every week has a payday! No impact to my budgeting, its just different.

I’ve never been paid weekly, even when I worked for a construction and maintenance company we paid monthly. In hospitality it’s more common also still to be paid in cash though getting rarer. My local pub pays casual workers weekly and those on full time or part time contracts monthly, was talking about it yesterday by chance

Our company moved from weekly to monthly pay to cut down on payroll costs. Our lowest paid members of staff really struggled to budget and manage. We ended up bringing in a second firm called wagestream which would allow employees to then draw down part of their already earned pay in advance of payday should they need it (obviously at a cost to them).

It didn’t affect me but I thought it was appalling. Company saving money and passing on the associated costs directly to the employees that could least afford it.

My husband works in manufacturing and is paid weekly.
He's been in the same job for 26 years; when he started he had the choice of weekly or bi weekly then when monthly pay came in 10 years ago for them he had of option of changing it but the more recent employees get it monthly.
If he has a week off off on holiday pay they pay him 2 weeks wages the week before.
Must be a pain for the payroll person

I preferred weekly pay.

I had PT jobs with local and county council in my teens in the '80s, and even then, I was paid monthly, even when I was at the swimming pool, doing very varied hours and different rates (lifeguard and teaching.)

I loved it so much that when I got moved to monthly pay I put it all in a savings account and release a bit every week. Not quite the same but im never in my overdraft now, and I always was before.

I was paid weekly when temping last year and LOVED it. So much easier to manage my finances when there's only ever 6 days or less to payday. February is a bummer though, when monthly paid staff effectively get a half week free.

I’ve always been paid monthly except for a job I had several years ago where I was paid fortnightly. I loved it! It felt like double pay every month! I found it so easy to budget as I still kept all direct debits at the beginning of the month, so the second payment felt like a bonus.

My kids both work for local council. Their part-time contracts are weekly pay.

I'm paid monthly but my husband is paid weekly.

It's brilliant as it feels like a constant stream of wages coming in.

My husband works in construction and gets paid weekly, I’m a teacher paid monthly (he earns more than me). I love it! The big bills get paid when I do and the daily living pot is always getting refilled. We share finances and it works well for us having both.

I too run payroll for a construction firm. I am paid monthly, as are all the office staff but the site workers are all paid weekly. I think it’s all part of the BESA agreement.

its even harder when I’m on holiday as it’s rare that everyone works a 38 hour week. I have to go through time sheets every week to calculate hours, travel time & overtime.

I’m really surprised by this. Dd1 has a Saturday job. She was in a garden centre and now a cafe and has only been paid monthly ever.

I’m agency and get paid weekly. So hard to budget!