[latortuga]

This would complicate anything that is paid for monthly, including but not limited to: employee salaries, rent/mortgage, subscriptions, utilities, etc. Do we just ignore Sol for those purposes or roll it into another month?

Having your birthday perpetually on a wednesday would also not be so much fun. Perhaps "year day" could shift every year forward by 1 week day - year day could be Monday and then Jan 1 of the next year could be a Tuesday etc.

[krschultz]

If we all switched to it, wouldn't it simplify all of those things?

Right now if you get paid every other week, you get paid 3 times in 2 months and twice in all the other months.

If you get paid twice a month on the 15th and last day of the month, payroll constantly has to take account of holidays and weekends because the day of the week is always fluctuating.

All of those things would have to change, but they would be simpler after the change. It's the same argument as switching to the metric system in the US. Unfortunately the fixed cost of having to switch outweighs the benefits of switching (certainly for the calendar, less so for metric).

[estel]

Don't some companies already run salary in thirteen four week periods? I've worked at at least one that did.

[jeffasinger]

I'm not 100% sure, but in the US, this is relatively rare, as it's required in most situations to be paid at least 2 times per month.

I think all but 5 states have laws dictating pay frequency, and in most cases they require at least two times a month pay frequency.

The most popular pay schedules tend to be 24, 26, and 52 times per year.

EDIT: This was supposed to be a reply to redblacktree. State law examples: - http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_paydays.htm - http://labor.ny.gov/legal/counsel/pdf/frequency-of-pay-frequ...

[aetherson]

I would like you to explain to me what the situation is in which you imagine that being paid every 2 weeks would result in you being paid less than twice a month.

[redblacktree]

> it's required in most situations to be paid at least 2 times per month.

Where did you get this? I have a friend who's paid monthly at his salaried software engineering gig.

[redblacktree]

Not 13, but I am paid in 26 two-week periods.

[JoeAltmaier]

I got paid that way in CA for years. But that was 20 years ago.