Pay Day!

[deceptica]

I've only been working at my new job for a little over a week, but as it happens today was already my first pay day. I obviously got less than a full monthly salary, but still more than I expected, as they seem to be paying me a little in advance, up until the end of the month (or so it seems). Either way it's still more than I would've earned in a

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[queen_of_kithia]

What a pleasant surprise to get more money than you were expecting! Nice of them to give you a little something in advance, although I suppose that means you might get a little less next payday. So long as it all evens out in the end, I guess it doesn't really matter.

[deceptica]

I think the idea is that pay day is always for the full calendar month, including the days after pay day. So it'll always be the same until someone hands in their notice and they have to calculate how much that person is owed exactly by their last day.

[eofs]

I think this is fairly common in the UK. You're paid for the full month, no matter when your pay day is. So I'm paid on the 15th of the month, two weeks in retrospect and two in advance. (And then overtime trickles in months later, sigh.)

(Not universal, but common enough. Most people are paid on the 28th of the month so it's not so obvious.)

[queen_of_kithia]

It might be common here, for all I know, having held exactly one salaried position in my life. That was my teaching assistantship, which was kind of a unique situation in that we knew going into it that we were only going to work eight full months, plus the second half of August and the first half of May. If I recall correctly, our payday was at the end of the month, even in May when we only worked the first two weeks and had to wait another two weeks for the smaller paycheck.

I don't understand it, but as long as the people in charge of payroll do, that's all that matters.