When should you receive your first pay packet?

faringdon

Hi,
On PAYE, in a full time perm role, one usually gets payed once per month, and usally at the month end. However, suppose one starts work on the 15th of the month? Could one expect to be payed at the end of that month? How close to the end of the month is it, that if you started work then, then you would not expect to be payed at the end of that month?.....but instead your first pay packet would be payed at the end of the next month

Emmia

Firstly it's paid not payed. 

How much you'll get paid and when will depend on the payroll cut off - where I work it's the 20th - if you join after that, you get no money at the end of the first month, but a fatter pay cheque the following month which includes the days you worked after the cut off of the previous month.

chubsta

Where I used to work the cut-off date was the 16th I think, anything after that and you didn't get the money until the end of the next month.

Flugelhorn

chubsta said:

Where I used to work the cut-off date was the 16th I think, anything after that and you didn't get the money until the end of the next month.

certainly I have worked in few like that and if you didn't get you forms in for "extras" by that sort of date you had to wait 6 weeks to get the money 

DullGreyGuy

faringdon said:

Hi,
On PAYE, in a full time perm role, one usually gets payed once per month, and usally at the month end. However, suppose one starts work on the 15th of the month? Could one expect to be payed at the end of that month? How close to the end of the month is it, that if you started work then, then you would not expect to be payed at the end of that month?.....but instead your first pay packet would be payed at the end of the next month

Depends on what date you get paid, if everyone is simply salaried or if there are more complex things like commissions and/or overtime to deal with. 

Most places cut off 10-14 days before payday but can be earlier. Sometimes there are different cut offs for different aspects of the job. In my first ever job there was a different date for regular hours, overtime and commission; did make checking your payslip fairly challenging. Naturally the cut off was based on the managers sign off on them not when you submitted 

TELLIT01

The only people who can answer the specific question are those who control payroll for your employer.  As @DullGreyGuy says, cut off is normally about 2 weeks before actual pay date.

EnPointe

faringdon said:

Hi,
On PAYE, in a full time perm role, one usually gets payed once per month, and usally at the month end. However, suppose one starts work on the 15th of the month? Could one expect to be payed at the end of that month? How close to the end of the month is it, that if you started work then, then you would not expect to be payed at the end of that month?.....but instead your first pay packet would be payed at the end of the next month

what is the cut off date ? 

i once had a role where the start date was the 11th of the month  , however they  asked for the  payroll details to be  sent to  payroll by the 6th , so we would get  the first patial month's (basic) pay on the normal pay date and not have to go six and a half to  seven weeks before first pay 

EnPointe

as for different cut offs  in a lot of  organisers regardless of sector , but where the majority of staff are on contracted hours /  Salaried, basic pay is  paid forthe month of the pay  date and variable elements are paid  a month in arrears

DullGreyGuy

EnPointe said:

as for different cut offs  in a lot of  organisers regardless of sector , but where the majority of staff are on contracted hours /  Salaried, basic pay is  paid forthe month of the pay  date and variable elements are paid  a month in arrears

In my first job pay was on the 28th for the full month naturally moving forward if a weekend or BH, commission was paid up to the 2nd Thursday of the month and overtime up until the 14th (irrespective of what day of the week that was)

Savvy_Sue

Agreed, OP will have to ask the employer, and also note that in a large organisation it's worth checking that their manager has done everything that needs to be done. 

In my last job, no-one could start without me knowing about it, and I made sure that they were either paid with everyone else, OR they were told it wasn't going to happen until the end of the following month. And if they were going to have to wait, I could offer an advance payment. But that was a small organisation and everyone came past my desk early on (and at regular intervals thereafter). 

In larger organisations, payroll will only know about new starters if the right processes are followed. Sometimes managers either don't know what those processes are, or fail to follow them. 

And only the OP knows what kind of employer they're with!

penners324

faringdon said:

Hi,
On PAYE, in a full time perm role, one usually gets payed once per month, and usally at the month end. However, suppose one starts work on the 15th of the month? Could one expect to be payed at the end of that month? How close to the end of the month is it, that if you started work then, then you would not expect to be payed at the end of that month?.....but instead your first pay packet would be payed at the end of the next month

Depends when tbe company's payroll cut off date is. For bigger companies probably mid month, smaller companies it could be much later.