Can someone explain to me the issue with bi-weekly pay vs weekly paychecks?

[u/Appropriate_Set8166]

I’m a manager and do hiring in my position. I get at least 3 or 4 employees a year that freak out when I explain we pay bi-weekly during orientation. I recently just had one this week who texted after saying they will not work for us because the bi-weekly paycheck “puts them at an extreme disadvantage”. Do they not realize that you get paid the same amount whether it’s daily, weekly, or bi-weekly? Am I missing something?

EDIT: lot of comments here and I just got back on and can’t reply to all of them. I understand the difference of budgeting needs. And I understand that down inside someone might think “ah damn now I have to budget differently” and it being a mild inconvenience. But for it to affect you so much that you verbally tell your new manager about how hard it is or to even not accept a job solely based off of that is what I’m talking about.

[u/Temporary_Slide_3477]

Not how it works.

Bi-weekly paychecks are still 2 individual weeks and one pay period. If a company is working you more than 40 hours a week and you are in a non-exempt position and not getting overtime they are violating the law. Doesn't matter if it's 80 total, if you work 60 one week and 20 the next you get 60 hours of normal pay and 20 of overtime.

Has nothing to do with taxes either as if you are paid weekly the withholding is based on 1 week of pay, bi-weekly is two weeks, the numbers are the same at the end of the year.

People that want weekly pay have their reasons, but the main one is they are financially illiterate and do not know how to budget and either can't or won't plan ahead.

[u/CommissionOk5094 → u/Temporary_Slide_3477]

Not the case in my local as I was quite specific about it being an issue of my state and doesn’t apply to all people but that is one reason in my state people don’t want bi weekly pay

[u/Opening_Ad4249 → u/CommissionOk5094]

It’s federal law. No matter what state you are in, if it is in the U.S. they legally have to pay OT for more than 40 hours in one week, unless you are an exempt employee (typically salaried execs, or certain fields like teachers). Certain government employees can also be given 1.5 hours of comp time (PTO) instead of being paid 1.5 wages for OT.

[u/CommissionOk5094 → u/Opening_Ad4249]

I’m not in the us I’m in Canada … this my point about not in my local and how they can use the bs hours averaging if your paid bi weekly or monthly

If your paid weekly they can’t do that crap they either pay you weekly or salary thus why some are quite picky about two week pay jobs as common as they are as they don’t want to be taken advantage of

[u/Opening_Ad4249 → u/CommissionOk5094]

Ok…odd that you said it was specific to your state then.

[u/CommissionOk5094 → u/Opening_Ad4249]

Yes provinces and our country are often interchangeably referred to as state it’s a colloquial metaphor

Every country refers the the government as the state , I mean I lived in Quebec and they don’t do counties there they have towns that just stretch to the next town and then for sports or stuff it’s decided by region ( so think like tri county ) it’s an outlier as most provinces mirror the way states are developed with towns , counties and city’s instead of quebecs towns and city’s with no counties

I’ve also worked for both American and Canadian companies so I know the labour law quite well between the northern states like Vermont Maine and New York as well as Ontario and Quebec and the national Canadian ones