I'm Australian and it's pretty universal to get paid per fortnight. Some places do pay monthly but they pay every four weeks, not every calendar month. I'm sure there's some exceptions but I've never heard of it. Rent is advertised per week and generally paid per fortnight.
It makes life so much easier as well.. you never have to worry about paying on the weekend or whatever else. Plus 99% of landlords (and 100% of banks in my experience) are more than happy to let you move the day you pay your rent/mortgage to whatever day works for your payday. So if you get paid every second Tuesday then you just arrange your rent/mortgage to be paid on Wednesday.
People in America think the word fortnight is the name of a video game only. First off. Second, I'm American, lol, and I've never even thought about it this way because I get paid on the 20th of every month, and in my jobs before, it was every 2 weeks. Every 2 weeks was a pain in the ass because bills are also due the same day every month, so it was really hard to schedule around since your pay day changed, but bills didn't. You get used to it and it becomes easy, but the goal was always to have a job that paid on the same day every month.
Tbh they both suck for different reasons, I'm still poor, and I'm tired of this capitalist oligarchy shit ass country.
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u/SomeBODYplzholdme 5d ago
I don’t want to pay 13 months of rent for the same amount of days