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View Poll Results: Your income paychecks come in how often? | |
Every two weeks (schedule A: June 9, 23, etc.)
|     | 14 | 15.91% | |
Every two weeks (schedule B: June 2, 16, etc.0
|    | 13 | 14.77% | |
Twice a month (usually the 15th and 30th)
|    | 21 | 23.86% | |
Once a month (usually at the end)
|    | 13 | 14.77% | |
Freelance, self-employed, or otherwise flexible plan.
|    | 9 | 10.23% | |
Income?! You suck. And I hate this poll.
|    | 18 | 20.45% | 
06-20-2006, 11:41 AM
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#1 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Oklahoma
Posts: 520
| Your income pay schedule
How often do you receive a paycheck, or what's the general schedule for your personal income?
((Edit comment: Darn it, yes -- I did forget to include the once-a-week option. Sorry.))
As odd a question as this seems for a fencing forum, it does involve a weak tangent for discussion: How many of your "last-minute" decisions to attend an event hinge on whether you're getting paid that weekend? I expect this is less of an issue for the elite-level athletes and long-range planners who work toward certain major events, but it might be a deciding factor for more middle- and low-income common folk (or those of us who "budget" from moment to moment).
Last edited by Redblade; 06-20-2006 at 01:56 PM.
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06-20-2006, 11:46 AM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Chelmsford, MA
Posts: 1,854
| I get paid twice a month (15th and 30th(31st/28th/29th)) of each month... It doesn't generally effect a decision for that weekend, because i try not to spread myself so thin that i can't afford to do what i want to do when i want to do it... if i find my money running short, i cut back on smaller things over a longer period of time to solve the problem (i.e. alcohol while out at dinner is a common thing i cut out, because it does add up pretty quickly).
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06-20-2006, 11:46 AM
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#3 | | Fencing Expert
Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Angel, London
Posts: 2,447
| once a month.
Seems to be quite common this way in the UK.
In Australia it was fortnightly, every 2nd thursday meaning friday or something | |
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06-20-2006, 12:00 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Oklahoma
Posts: 520
| I try to plan my calendar for the entire season (once the section announces dates and cities for our circuit), and set some vague sense of personal accounting accordingly. It's important, too, for asking the boss for days off for travel and other prep. Doesn't always work out that way, though. | |
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06-20-2006, 01:02 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2005 Location: Indiana
Posts: 677
| May I say the poll is flawed?
I get paid every two weeks, but not on certain dates of the month. IOW, I receive 26 paychecks yearly.
It doesn't affect attendance. I am an older fencer with years of establishing credit and have plastic. | |
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06-20-2006, 01:18 PM
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#6 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Venice Beach, CA
Posts: 1,272
| Yeah, I protest also, I get paid every week, woo hoo! I love it that way. | |
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06-20-2006, 01:25 PM
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#7 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Sweden
Posts: 12,658
| The most common here is to get paid once a month.
Usually it's on the 25th, although some companies (such as Volvo for instance) chose to pay their employees on the 27th.
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06-20-2006, 01:28 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: NC
Posts: 205
| I protest because I never make last-minute tournament decisions.
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06-21-2006, 07:22 AM
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#9 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2005 Location: Mid-West USA
Posts: 613
| Attendance at tournaments is more a function of work and associated travel than finance. I'll be wheels up for Tokyo and Beijing while my events are being run in Atlanta for instance. Not that I would stand a chance of winning anything in Atlanta, but I guess that is the same for 99% of the people attending!
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06-21-2006, 03:24 PM
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#10 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Tucson, AZ USA
Posts: 1,207
| Weekly for now although they keep threatening to change it to every 2 weeks.
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06-21-2006, 06:37 PM
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#11 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: pittsburgh
Posts: 34
| once at the end of each month , and how high is the occupation tax for everyone else? | |
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06-21-2006, 06:42 PM
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#12 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Milwaukee
Posts: 974
| I need a once a year catagory. The Wisconsin State lottery board sends out their yearly check in February. It is sometimes hard to budget the 1.61 million for an entire year.
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06-22-2006, 01:36 AM
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#13 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 1,216
| Are you joking Joe, or did you once win the lottery  ?
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06-22-2006, 04:35 AM
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#14 | | Have Blazer, Will Travel
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 9,903
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Originally Posted by saeras once at the end of each month , and how high is the occupation tax for everyone else? | 0.0%, not counting Federal. | |
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06-24-2006, 12:56 PM
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#15 | | Super Shoebie
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: VA
Posts: 1,080
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Originally Posted by KD5MDK 0.0%, not counting Federal. | How high are the sales and property taxes?... As Gojujay would say TANSTAFL.
It Is funny how many TX car tags there are out here on the east coast...all those Ft. Hood types who don't want to pay the car taxes... | |
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06-25-2006, 09:28 AM
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#16 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Oklahoma
Posts: 520
| Seems no particular trend revealing itself on this poll. Bummer. | |
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06-25-2006, 03:44 PM
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#17 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: greenville, sc
Posts: 161
| i have 2 jobs that i get paid for once every 2 weeks...sooo i get a check every week ^_^
however im quitting one job because i have to wear a stupid hat...amoung other things... 
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06-25-2006, 08:35 PM
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#18 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Savannah, Ga
Posts: 6,024
| I hearby nominate this poll for a new home in the Water Cooler.
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06-26-2006, 01:21 AM
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#19 | | Fencing Expert
Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Pennsauken, NJ
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Originally Posted by chefencer As Gojujay would say TANSTAFL. | Although he might include another "A".
-B
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06-26-2006, 02:34 PM
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#20 | | Super Shoebie
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: VA
Posts: 1,080
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Originally Posted by oiuyt Although he might include another "A".
-B | Perhaps I was thinking of the concept 'as' Free Lunch (insert registered trademark of your favorite global multi-national : tm) instead of just any old amuerzo gratis in 'a' singular sense...or maybe I lost count of my A's as I was trying to remember the phrase...
Put that pick away before you hurt anymore nits! 'Zooks, man! | |
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