pay period
Salary cycle duration
A pay period is the recurring interval for which an employee's wages are calculated and paid.
Common pay periods are weekly, biweekly (every two weeks), semimonthly (twice a month), or monthly.
How many hours did you work this pay period?
The term appears constantly in payroll and HR contexts.
- semimonthlyTwice in thirty days
- overtimeWork beyond scheduled hours
- paycheckCompensation for labor
- weeklyEvery seven days
- stubRetained portion after detachment
salary · wages · budgeting · timesheets · hourly rate · time clock · time card · calendar · envelope · schedule · direct deposit · direct deposit form · tax planning · shift · employment contracts · benefits · deductions · hourly
- paycheckdeductions, earnings, net earnings, base salary, salary
- time cyclesseasonal cycle, yearly cycle, seasons, day, solar cycle
- time periodsday, year, month, week, hour
- time unitssecond, minute, hour, seconds, day
- payrollpaycheck, base salary, payroll, paycheck stub, paystub
- Payroll Taxespayroll tax, payroll taxes, Medicare tax, withholding tax, federal withholding
temporal structure of compensation
pay periodone-time payment
Full amount paid once
lump sum · severance · bonus · signing bonus · windfall
payment methodology
pay periodpiecework
Pay per unit produced
fee-for-service · instant payment · piece rate · commission · tip