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Re:Tabs, spaces and your salary – how is it really? by thaumasiotes on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @01:01PM (#14596299)
> the number that shows up in my checking account biweekly is my annual salary divided by 24

Either you're paid twice a month rather than every other week, or the biweekly number is your annual salary divided by _26_, or, I guess, you're subject to a strict requirement to take two weeks of unpaid vacation every year.

Re:Tabs, spaces and your salary – how is it really? by 13of40 on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @01:13PM (#14596414)
Good point. In that case I really don't really even understand how my beer money relates back to my salary.
Re:Tabs, spaces and your salary – how is it really? by creepydata on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @02:11PM (#14597010)
Um, wow.

That's really something you should know and understand because you want to make sure you are getting paid correctly and catch any payroll errors. They are not uncommon, I've caught a couple myself, including an $1,800 mistake.

If you're paid biweekly (say, every other Friday) you have 26 pay periods. If you are paid semi monthly (say the first and the fifteenth) then you'll have 24 pay periods.