Midwest, USA. The last time i was hourly, I was in the UAW. We were paid weekly. Overtime was 1.5x, Sundays were 2x. Holidays were an extra 1x, so a Friday holiday would be 2x. A Saturday holiday would be 2.5x, and a Sunday holiday would be a glorious 3x.

Since I’ve been salary. One place has been paid twice a month and the rest have been every two weeks. One place had what they called “bank hours”, where anything over 45 hours (our base week) were put into your hours bank. This could be used as additional PTO. The cap for the bank was 60 hours. After that, you were paid out straight time with your overage. Another place paid out straight time over 45 (our base week was 40 hours) that pay period, no bank.

Where I am at now is just straight salary, but I rarely work over 40. And the pay is still significantly more than anywhere else I have worked. Which makes me wonder if those other companies knew they were over working us, and our base salaries were based on the assumption of how much OT we would be working.

In France and Germany you are paid monthly, by bank transfer (for most jobs). Tax are automatically accounted for, your pay slip will show the Brute/Brutto (what the employers pay) and Net/Netto (what you receive on your bank account).

In both countries, trial period must be paid. If you come 1 day to work and they don’t want you. They must pay you for the 1 day of work.

In Germany, how good things are can vary. I always had a good situation because I work in the automotive industry. For most my career my contract was “Tarifvertrag” which means it is compliant with the rules of the workers union IG-Metall, this includes the salary grid. The union is negotiating the salary increase for millions of employees on a yearly basis. You stamp in and out of work. Your work time is counted to the minute. Overtime is accumulated in a time account that you can recover as paid holiday or paid at overtime rate. Working Saturdays and Sundays is paid a special rate as well (not sure, I think it is 150% Saturday and 200% Sunday). After trial period, resignation is 10 weeks notice for both the employee and employer. They must pay you all of your overtime when you leave, and let you use all the holidays you are due.

If your profession is covered by a strong workers union, things are pretty good. Things can pretty shitty if you are independent or working for a startup or hospitality business.

UK, there is no standard. I’ve seen last working day of the month, every second week, 28th of every month, once per week, last Friday of the month unless that Friday is also the last day of the month in which case it’s the Friday before.

Hourly workers tend to be paid weekly or fortnightly and salaried workers tend to be monthly but as far as I know there’s no real rules, you get whatever your employment contract says.

So hows the situation in your country?

Monthly. Nearly 100%

Germany here.

Payday is usually written in your contract. It can vary from the beginning of the current (!) month to the middle of the following month.

Workers have very strong rights if the company does not do it properly: They can go to court immediately, and they don’t even need a lawyer in such cases. The courts are going to hear them, always, and are known as generally favorable towards the workers.

US here. I’ve only ever seen bi-weekly and twice-monthly.

Overtime is a given (legally required) for hourly work; however there are a lot of shenanigans employers do around timecards that does not get nearly as much enforcement as it should.

It also typically takes about a month from when you start working to when you get your first paycheck. Paychecks normally come between 1 and 2 weeks after the pay period ends; and your first pay check tends to be extra delayed. Having said that, the one time this was a problem for me, I was able to walk into the HR office and get a hand written check on the spot (no clue how common that is).

UK monthly is probably the most common but I have been paid weekly or fortnightly before.

In Spain you get paid at the end of the month, usually between the 25th and the 28th, depending if your bank is the same as your employer or not and if there’s a weekend in there.

Overtime is counted by hours and is added. In the sectors I’m familiar with it is regulated and can’t exceed a certain number of hours in a year. That doesn’t mean that people don’t do much overtime but the company needs to do some acrobatics and sometimes is not worth it.

There are trial periods where either the employer or the employee can end the contract without penalty for the company or having to justify it and the employee can quit without giving a 15 day notice.

I work for a US company but I’m in Canada. I get paid bi weekly. Never missed a paycheck yet. After ~ 10 years.

Worked in Italy and Germany. In both the pay is monthly. In Italy the day is fixed while in Germany is more “by the end of the month” but not a fixed day.

France: salaries are paid on a monthly basis in most situations.

Not sure how you got the impression that, “here in the US, it’s always weekly pay.” Semi weekly or bi-monthly is more common.

There are some delinquent employers and I’d say despite the illegality wage theft by an employer is considered a lesser crime by our justice system than stealing from your workplace.

UK, monthly. The day changes between employers but most have been around the end of the month.

I’ve never had overtime pay but I also never did overtime, not sure if it’s a thing. I’ve had on-call though, payment for it depends per employer.

Japan: monthly for most salaried jobs, anywhere from the same day to monthly (longest by law) for other jobs.

US. Paid twice a month. My current employer payment system is fully automated, so my paycheck shows up at the same time down to the minute. I’m also paid a set salary and expected to work 40+ hours “until the work is done” so balancing my responsibilities is up to me. Lots of so-called “professional” or “white-collar” jobs are like this. Specifically, I’m an engineering manager.

Every job I can think of has paid twice a month, even going back to minimum wage jobs I had in high school.

I’ve seen signs for jobs that pay daily, they are all for entry-level jobs like for a fast food restaurant position.

Currently in the US, my full time job pays me every two weeks (May is a three paycheck month for us). It’s a professional level job, but we’re not overtime exempt, so I only work 40 hours a week or I need to take flex time to balance it out the next week. I sometimes work 9 or 10 hour days, but that just means I get to leave early on Friday.

My part time tutoring job pays once a month, I turn in teaching reports at the end of the week and they use that to calculate hours.

When I was teaching in China I’d get paid on the first of the month, never had any problems with delays, but that might be owed to being a foreign teacher.

When I was in Korea they’d pay twice a month, with the only delay being the first paycheck where they forgot to take down my banking information and the last paycheck that I had to fight HR for.