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Payroll question, 2 weeks in arrears / 2 weeks in advanced

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Offline  craig24
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I started a new job on the 11th July, pay day is the 15th, they pay 2 weeks in arrears, 2 weeks in advanced.

Should I have been paid on the 15th?

 
Posted : 18/07/2022 12:07 pm
Offline  stingmered
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No. You’ll have missed payroll cut off for the month which will probably have been at the back end of June. Certainly in all the companies I’ve worked for, payroll cutoff is at least 15 days before pay day.

 
Posted : 18/07/2022 12:16 pm
Offline  fossy
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You 'should' get those extra days at the next payroll. I say 'should' as my wife's company has some weird system in that you miss getting any days worked between cut off and payroll date, so you never actually get those days back unless you 'leave'

 
Posted : 18/07/2022 12:27 pm
Offline  Jossie
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I had the same when I started with my current company, started on the 9th-ish and ended up being paid a few days not a whole month. The month after I got a months pay + the additional two weeks, but worth checking your contract to see when you will get paid.

 
Posted : 18/07/2022 12:40 pm
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@fossy that sounds proper nuts, and also quite unethical. I’d be surprised if your company did this OP. Again, my experience is to get paid those missing days next month.

 
Posted : 18/07/2022 12:41 pm
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I get 2 weeks in advance 2 weeks arrears, took 6 weeks for first pay, meant to receive the money owed when I leave but ive been I the job 20 years so time will tell lol

 
Posted : 18/07/2022 12:46 pm
Offline  wwpaddler
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It's well over 20 years since I was paid on that system but as I'd missed payroll cut off I didn't get paid on my first pay day and it was all sorted on my first pay packet received on 2nd pay day. Company did understand that this could cause people cash flow issues and were willing to give a cash advance soon after we started which was then deducted from our 1st pay packet. Your company may offer something similar if asked.

 
Posted : 18/07/2022 12:56 pm
Offline  TheGingerOne
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Possibly BAE Systems and no as you did not start before the monthly cut off date which obviously isn't the same date as you get paid on.

 
Posted : 18/07/2022 2:15 pm
Offline  fossy
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We had a 2 weeks in advance and then 2 weeks in arrears when we had a mid month pay date. It was then decided to pay everyone at the end of the month, four weeks in arrears, so most of us opted for a repayable 'advance' on two weeks pay as we were then not paid for 6 weeks.

 
Posted : 18/07/2022 2:29 pm
Offline  thisisnotaspoon
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Depends how their payroll works, I started at a similar sized company a couple of months back and they ran my payroll for the first month (a week as we're paid 25th-ish) about 7-10 days later (on about the 4th), would have been quicker but I wasn't able to access the manhour billing system so wasn't (as far as the system was concerned) actually officially doing any work.

Payroll cut-off is usually the last day for getting timesheets, expense etc submitted to get paid on time that month. HR via Sage/oracle or whoever does their payroll can still process it, they just won't send the details back to your finance dept in time for them to do the disspersements that month.

TL:DR, ask HR.

 
Posted : 18/07/2022 3:43 pm