Salary Frequency
 

Hi All,

All systems go for my arrival in Lethbridge AB.

I have been informed that I will be getting paid bi-monthly.

Is this the norm ?

I have never come across this arrangement while I have been working in the UK.

Pete

Re: Salary Frequency
 

Pretty common, if by "bi-monthly" they mean every 2 weeks.

I get paid on the 14th and 28th of each month for example.

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Bi-weekly is the norm, not bi-monthly.
I would double check with your employer.

Re: Salary Frequency
 

Very common. In BC, unless you are management, the labour standards say that you must be paid at least twice a month.

Bi-monthly should mean twice a month - typically on the 15th and 30th/31st. Some companies pay every two weeks. This means that two months a year you will get three pay cheques. This should be called bi-weekly but the terms are often used inter-changeably.

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Thanks,

Will check but the job I am in will be more likely bi weekly.

cheers.

Pete

Re: Salary Frequency
 

Bi monthly ie Twice a month, is pretty normal. Bi Weekly,ie every two weeks is also pretty common. There is no right or wrong, its just how its done.

Re: Salary Frequency
 

Thanks iaink,

A Canadian Red !!

Once a blue always a blue

Pete

Re: Salary Frequency
 

And yes for some reason in Canada they think bi-monthly actually means semi-monthly (twice a month) instead of every 2 months. Not sure why as bi-weekly means every 2 weeks to them, so not sure why they'd think bi-monthly means something different.

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My OH gets paid bi-weekly and I get paid bi-monthly. It is the norm. I don't think I know anyone who gets paid monthly.

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We get paid bi-weekly. Me one week, hubby the next week. Every Friday is pay day :thumbsup:

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Unless you are Michael Owen, Ian Rush, Jamie Carragher, Steve McManaman , Robbie Fowler....:lol:

Then theres is this one...http://www.thespoiler.co.uk/wp-conte...ardeverton.jpgbut he says his uncle made him do it...

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I get paid monthly. You do now. :)

I used to like the German system (now abandoned I believe) in which your annual salary was divided into 13ths and you'd get 1/13th every month but 2/13 at the end of November.

The idea is that you're supposed to waste it on Christmas tat, but I use to just bank it.

Scrooge? Me? Or perhaps, Schwarzer Peter? Ich?

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[QUOTE=Novocastrian;11138063]I get paid monthly. You do now. :)

:lol: Thank you, I love learning new things.

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I get paid weekly!

Haven't been paid weekly since I did Saturdays in a shop about 28 years ago....

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Bi-monthly, meaning every two months, is definitely not the norm but I am guessing that the person who informed the OP simply used the incorrect term and that the pay will be twice a month (say the 15th & 30th or whatever).