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 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.

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.

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.

'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.

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.

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).

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.

My mum was paid weekly when she worked for the council. I think it’s pretty common in lower paid jobs.

Public and civil service are paid weekly or fortnightly depending on grade and they are the biggest employer by farm

My dh is weekly and I am fortnightly. Neither of us are lower paid

Same here (Ireland).

I'm paid fortnightly (teacher) and dh paid weekly (construction)

Never known any different and it works very well. There's never that January slump or post holidays there's always a wage coming in and we have our mortgage set up weekly .

I get my state pension weekly, DH gets his and his IIDB weekly. We also pay our rent and council tax weekly. It just works better for us. I have a daughter who gets three benefits, one weekly, one monthly and one 4 weekly (she doesn't live with us)

Dh has worked in the food industry (food production, haulage, or in supermarkets) on and off all his working life. Generally the staff were paid weekly and management were paid monthly- except Sainsburys who paid 4 weekly when he worked for them. It was really annoying having 13 paydays pwr year because payday moved a few days each month, so it made setting up direct debits awkward.

I'm in Ireland and..

Retail job was paid weekly
Manufacturing industry job was paid fortnightly.
Professional services job was paid monthly.

Teachers I know seem to be paid twice a month...I think the first payment is like an advance and then they get the monthly payslip with the remainder of the pay at the end of the month.

I run payroll for several clients, and the weekly ones are all hospitality and retail outlets.

Macdonalds pay fortnightly

I’m paid monthly but my husband is paid weekly. Works really well for us. My salary hits just before all the direct debits come out and then DH salary tops up each week. He works shifts and gets a different shift allowance each week. He also does a lot of overtime. He says it’s more of an incentive to do overtime if you know you are going to get paid it the next week. I budget on his base salary. We use shift allowance and overtime plus my second job to cover University

Four-weekly is common on the railways. It's great, once a year payday leapfrogs the mortgage direct debit and I get a mortgage-free pay month.

My partner is a HGV driver and is paid weekly. It works well for us as I'm paid monthly, so my wages go into the 'bills' account and cover the monthly bills (mortgage, gas, electric, council tax, etc), and his wages go into the 'spends' account and cover things like food, petrol, clothes, etc.

DH is a bus driver and paid weekly. He was on the railway before which was 4 weekly which is actually much more of a pain to deal with for bills. Weekly we make sure different things come out on different weeks and it’s fine. I like that we’ve never had a “long month” like monthly pay brings.

Just be greatful they aren't paid in tesco voucher like a poster on a previous thread thought was acceptable for a cleaner.

My partner is 4 weekly and its a massive ballache when it falls you get paid the day after all your direct debits come out we always have to be a month ahead of ourselves

In my last job (teacher in an independent school) I was paid monthly in the middle of each month.

It might be significant that the school fees mostly came in at the start of term, rather than every month.
At the other two independent schools I was still paid at the end of the month.

When I began full time work (1960s) i was paid monthly by bank transfer. My father really resented it and kept making snide remarks about "you with your bank account and your cheque book". Neither of my parents had a bank accout until the late 1970s. My mother was useless at coping with the fact that she got 4 weeks "keep" from me and always ran out at the end of the second month. When she tried to scrounge more money out of me I used t lend it to her and take it back the following month. She never did learn to budget weekly. I used to draw out enough for the month, divide it into the 4 weeks and keep it in my drawer. One month money went missing. After that I kept it in my locker in work. Its a terrible thing to realise that someone in your family is a thief.

I used to get paid weekly
Absolutely miss it.

Getting paid weekly is actually much better.
It's only the rent you need to be careful of.