Being paid early for Christmas?

[TheEmmaDilemma]

I'm not sure if I've missed a thread about this, but want to hear opinions.

I get actually find it annoying that my company (and prior) pay me early for Christmas. While I'm an adult who budgets it still fucks with my dates, and annoyes me frankly.

I'd prefer they just paid it on the normal date. I've either budgeted for Christmas or I haven't.

Do you find it useful to be paid earlier?

HMRC have advised employers to report the payment on the usual payday, even if paid a few days early, to avoid affecting benefit claims.

Lol you don’t have to spend it tho haha

Piss of all of you complainers. I work bloody hard struggling to run a small business - as part of which I want to do the right thing by my employees and make it a nice place to work. I'm paying them on Friday (instead of end of month) plus a few hundred £ Christmas bonus. If any one of them is sat on the fucking Internet fucking complaining about that they can fuck right off.

Am going to get a mince pie.

Rant would be more credible if I could spell.

I got paid today and next pay will be 30 Jan which feels like a very long time away. All my working life I think I’ve been paid early in December so kind of used to it, though it does irk me a bit.

However, this is offset by the fact that I live in a country that does a 13 month payroll, and we get the 13th month in Dec. So I’m not complaining too much as effectively I get paid double bubble

We get paid every 4 weeks. No early pay here. We next get paid 28th December

@LtGreggs and I'm sure all your staff appreciate it .
And you will definitely have a riot on your hands if pay being paid early was stopped because of 1 or 2 people not know how to budget complaining .

We get paid 7 days early this month. Tbf we need it as we've overspent but jan will be tight 😬

Me too, tomorrow and then on 29th, it's really annoying.

We were paid this Monday instead of 24th. Makes January feel like a veeeeery long month but everything is budgeted for & I keep a very close eye on my account so should be ok...I think (we switched from mid-month pay half way through the year, I think I preferred that!)

At one place I got paid on the 15th of the month. That was great actually. If you’d blown it all by the end of the month, psychologically it didn’t feel too long until the next pay.

I hate it, at a time when there's a lot of pressure to spend money on non-essentials the subtle pay-day sensation of feeling well off is unhelpful and does nothing for will power!

I think your in the minority

I don't think she is User10001999. Not according to this thread, and not according to colleagues when it has come up year in, year out over the last 30 odd years.
Hardly anyone replying here likes it.
Like the OP, it is more psychological now our budget isn't quite so tight, but I used to hate the long, long run up to January payday when we were skint.

If you were paid on the "usual day" (in my case, 25th Dec) and a problem couldn't be rectified until January, that would be a much bigger problem.

I'm happy to have to pay attention to my budget a little more, to save anyone whose pay has a mistake from having to live with that mistake for over a week.

Any workplace that is phrasing it as helping you out with Christmas is lying. They're doing it for their convenience, and to prevent any mistakes becoming a big problem.

I hate this so much! We get paid the last Thursday of the month. Apart from December when we get paid the third Thursday. So that means 6 whole weeks til the next payday! January is going to be so miserable.

I like it early as I like to stock up on food for the Christmas period so I can avoid the supermarket as much as possible when it's chaos. It doesn't affect my budget as I am just shopping earlier and we can mostly eat what we already have in the cupboards and freezer until next pay. I'm not spending otherwise at this time of year (after the presents are all sorted).

I don't quite buy the "doing it now so people will be in to sort out any problems". My school is shut as of tomorrow until 7th Jan - there'll be no bursar in to chase Capita for over two weeks if they screw it up, and I'm not able to contact them directly. If they paid me on the last day of the month I'd only have to wait a week to sort out a cock up. I can see why small businesses do it if they're open til 24th, but it doesn't work in this case.

Most of our office finish tomorrow. We re open 7th Jan. A couple are in Friday.
Weekly pay plus 2 weeks holiday pay went in on Tuesday.(3 days early). Monthly pay will go in tomorrow.

Im paid tomorrow but usually on the 22nd so no different to me. Just a very long january i dont go overboard with food at Christmas

We budget carefully, have spreadsheet, planners etc. DH’s company pay early (a week) and we just transfer his salary into our savings and then transfer it back on the correct pay day. Not a biggie really.

Like a pp I pop it on another account and put it back on normal pay day. I tend to put a note in my diary to remind me too as not remembering would have bad results

I hate it -
People who generally moan towards the middle to end of a standard month get excited they are being paid early and end up spending so all I hear at work by 2nd week of Jan is the pay day countdown!
On top of this they get Christmas out of this pay cheque too.
My logic personally is wages are put away until X date which is my standard pay day. I have a good balance to cover unexpected bills luckily if they came out early. And i would rather deal with Christmas in advance.

We usually get paid on the second last working day of the month but we got paid today. It just makes the six weeks between pay days drag.

In an old job of mine pay date was the 15th of every month so Christmas wasn't a major hardship at all - in fact it was perfect.

I got paid today,moved it into my savings account and set up a payment back from that on the 31st.Temptation removed