pay days

Workers await them

Pay days are the regular days when workers receive their wages or salary, typically weekly, biweekly, or monthly: I'll pay you back on pay day.

Figuratively, a pay day is any moment of reward or reckoning: The boxer's big pay day came when he finally got a title shot.

Also spelled as one word: payday.

Related
  • paydayScheduled compensation date
  • bonusReward beyond expectation
  • wagesPayment for work
  • salaryFixed periodic employment payment
  • earningsMoney gained from work

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Opposites
financial timing

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Scheduled completion times

payment deadlines · rent day · collection day

financial fortune

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Period of financial hardship

hard times · empty pockets · dry spells · running on empty

Family

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