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?

I don't actually know when I get paid this month. It's normally on the 28th but my office closes on Friday until the 2nd so I'm not sure if it will be this week instead. Only started working here in the summer so I don't know how they work it over Christmas, I must ask tomorrow!

We get paid on the 28th generally but we got paid today and our January pay will be the 24th so they stagger it.

I quite like it. January is always a long shitty month anyway!

I’m paying all our lot tomorrow, usual payday is the last working day of the month

I’d have a riot if I didn’t - they all expect to be paid before they break up.

Actually, after some of the shitty demands and behaviour regarding pay and bonuses we’ve had from them this week, I’d tell them to lump it

I’d prefer to get paid on my normal payday, but our payroll is done manually and I won’t be here to pay myself as we’re closed for 2 weeks. I just transfer my pay into a savings account to keep it away from temptation.

I'm getting paid tomorrow instead of 29th. I don't particularly like it.

Pet hate! Paid today, usually would have been last day of the month.

But then I gues the people who do payroll want Christmas off too.

DH is being paid late because of Christmas, only a couple of days, but I was quite surprised!

When I started teaching, 1970, OH and I were both paid at the end of July for July and August! The end of September was a long time coming, even with the best of budgeting.

It's better to be paid early rather than late. Late seems unreasonable. It's often for practical reasons related to running the payroll.

To be honest, if money is tight and people budget carefully the rest of the time, why is this any different? I can see that if you're tempted then moving the money elsewhere seems a good idea, but if you budget carefully then you probably have a pretty good idea if the expenses coming up between Christmas and New Year or whenever you got paid - and they would need paying whether you were paid on 18th or 30th.

If people were paid late I think they'd be good cause for complaint, but people just need to take responsibility for their own money....it's not really a big ask is it?

I don't like being paid early either. So I just pretend it isn't there.

It will hit a huge number of people on Universal credit and they wont receive a payment and many wont know about it because they don't explain it properly to people. It will hit a lot of people very hard at the most expensive time of the year.

It’s awful.

My colleagues think it’s brill. I feel like I should check with them that they do understand it’s not extra money.

On the subject of paydays- in Oz we used to get paid fortnightly. Was ideal, as, as much as anything, you got 13 mortgage (every 4 weeks) payments paid per year.

Here, I'm NHS so my pay gets averaged across 12 months so my basic is the same every month, whether it's Feb or Jan.

When I worked in Germany in the 80s, companies used to pay 'Christmas money', or '13th monthly salary' on top of normal pay.
Just had a quick google, and it seems many still do!
Does this happen anywhere in UK?

Dreadful. Paid almost a week early.
And to make matters worse we are changing to an end of the month pay date next month.
So that's 7 weeks between pay days,

I also hate it, I have to transfer the money into a separate account and bring it on the correct day or I'd be penniless by mid Jan

I'm paying them on Friday (instead of end of month) plus a few hundred £ Christmas bonus.
Though I'd hate it a lot less if I got this kind of bonus!

As someone who works in Finance: we normally pay on 26th, which would be next Weds. If that’s a weekend or bank hol, we pay on the last working day before that - which this year would be Mon 24th. I NEVER put important payments through on Xmas eve as one year the bank system crashed on that date, so I am paying Fri 21st, tomorrow. So I’ve only shifted it forward one working day.

If your employer usually pays on the last working day then I do get that would be significantly earlier than normal, but the reality is that if it goes wrong it will be a right bloody pain to try and correct between Xmas and new year. And I’d like a holiday too please!

I'm a smug git who doesn't notice pay day but back in the day the early payment was a bloody godsend. Christmas is so expensive! Spend now, have a shite January. It's the lords will.

We get paid tomorrow instead of the end of the month, but our company bonus is in this salary payment which means that people want it early in December.

Morris - I admit I don't notice payday either!

I do worry about some of my rather younger HCP colleagues, who, via compulsory overtime, actually get paid a reasonable wage, count on things like early pay in Dec, and, if their overtime gets 'missed' in this month's pay, are in serious trouble.

I tell them not to rely on overtime, but several have taken out mortgages based on their continuing to get the 'big money'- but, now the NHS is openly and transparently recruiting from Nigeria and Jamaica (don't get me started); this overtime is disappearing.