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The arithmetic behind the calculators, worked out in public. Every number on these pages is computed at build time by the same code the tools run, so the tests that guard the calculators guard the writing too.
These are not guides. A guide answers a question that does not change — what a sinking fund is, how many paychecks are in a year. A note here carries a date and a table: something it would be dishonest to present as timeless, like which months of a specific year hold a third paycheck.
Biweekly payday calendar 2027: every payday for all 14 schedules
All 26 (or 27) biweekly paydays in 2027 for each of the fourteen possible schedules, laid out by month with the three-paycheck months marked. Find the row that starts on your first 2027 payday.
Read it5-Paycheck Months in 2027: Dates by Payday Weekday
Paid weekly, most months bring four paychecks and a few bring five. Which 2027 months those are for each payday weekday, and why Friday pay gets 53 paychecks this year.
Read it5-Paycheck Months in 2026: Dates by Payday Weekday
See every 2026 month with five scheduled weekly paydays for Monday through Sunday schedules, plus which fifth paydays remain after September 6, 2026.
Read it27 pay periods in 2027: which biweekly schedules get the extra paycheck
January 1, 2027 is a Friday, so one biweekly schedule gets 27 paychecks and one weekly schedule gets 53. Who gets it, whether your paycheck shrinks, and the New Year's Day catch that can move the whole thing into 2026.
Read it2026 Extra Paycheck Months: Dates for All 14 Schedules
Paid every other Friday? A January 2 cycle has extra paychecks in January and July; a January 9 cycle has them in May and October. See all 14 schedules and what remains after August 31, 2026.
Read itExtra paycheck months in 2028, when February can hold three
A 28-day February cannot fit three biweekly paychecks: the third lands on the 29th. In a leap year one schedule gets it. All fourteen 2028 cycles, with dates.
Read it2027 Extra Paycheck Months: All 14 Biweekly Schedules
Paid every other Friday? A January 1 cycle gets three paychecks in January, July and December; a January 8 cycle gets them in April and October. Check all 14 biweekly schedules below.
Read itA printable envelope chart hides the only hard part
Charts stop at the total. $347 is 8 bills as one lump and 26 once it is split five ways, and the second number is the one you have to hand a teller.
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