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

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I was talking to a family member yesterday evening and throughout conversation she told me that both her and her dh are paid weekly! I didn’t think anyone paid weekly anymore. I’m so so surprised. I’ve been paid monthly since my first job! Anyone else paid weekly? I would find that hard to manage I reckon.

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

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

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.

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!

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 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.

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 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!

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’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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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

Monthly bills for me are
-electricity
-mobile phones
-broadband
-sky
-mortgage
-life insurance

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.

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

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

I live in Ireland and am paid every Friday.

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.