[icebraining]

I'm not from the US, and I've never heard of anyone paid biweekly, that's why I found it weird.

According to the US Bureau of Labour Statistics, it's actually the most common schedule over there: http://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-3/how-frequently-do-priva...

[umanwizard]

Out of curiosity, how often is it standard to be paid where you are from?

I've been paid twice monthly, and monthly. I also know of people being paid weekly.

[icebraining]

Here in Portugal, almost everyone I know is paid monthly. Even the person who comes to my house weekly to clean asks to be paid once a month.

The only people I can think of who have a non-monthly regular pay schedule (not paid per job like freelancers) are door-to-door salespeople and mail ads deliverers.

[thedaemon]

Bi-weekly means you would get 2 paychecks a week. Did you mean bi-monthly? Also to chime in a bit, I get a paycheck every week.

[icebraining]

Bi-weekly means you would get 2 paychecks a week.

That's not the definition everyone uses :)

From the Bureau link I posted above: "Biweekly is the most common length of pay period, with 36.5 percent of U.S. private businesses paying their employees every 2 weeks."

(Check out online dictionaries too: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/biweekly#Adjective)

It seems the difference between biweekly (using this definition) and bimonthly is that occasionally you might get paid three times in a month, since the weeks don't align with the months.

[icebraining]

By "That's not the definition everyone uses" I meant "that definition isn't used by everyone", not "the definition used by everyone isn't that".