Days Until Payday Calculator (Weekly, Biweekly, Semimonthly)
Days to your next payday, from its date or from your pay schedule, with the paydays after it.
Inputs
- Next payday
- Friday, October 9, 2026
- Working days before it
- 5
- Weeks
- 1 week, 0 days
- The paydays after that
- Oct 23, 2026 · Nov 6, 2026 · Nov 20, 2026 · Dec 4, 2026 · Dec 18, 2026
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- Two lines of HTML, unlimited views
- Shows a small CalculateEveryday bar, with a credit link under the calculator
What each Days Until Payday input means
- I know
- Enter the date of your next payday if you know it, or your last payday and schedule to have the date worked out.
- Next payday
- The date the money is due, for the simple countdown.
- Last payday
- Your most recent payday. Any past payday in the schedule works, because weekly and biweekly paydays repeat every 7 or 14 days from it.
- Paid
- How often you are paid: weekly, every two weeks, twice a month on the 15th and last day, or monthly on the same date.
- Counting from
- The day to count from, today unless you change it.
Days Until Payday formula
days until payday = next payday − today · weekly/biweekly: last payday + 7 or 14 days until it is not in the past
If you know the date, the countdown is simply the days between today and then. If you know your schedule, the page works the date out: weekly and biweekly paydays fall every 7 or 14 days after your last one; semimonthly pay lands on the 15th and the last day of the month — the most common pattern, though employers choose their own dates; monthly pay repeats on the same date, moved to the month's last day when the month is shorter. You get the next payday as a full date, the days and working days until it, and the five paydays after it. Paydays on a weekend are shown as they fall — many employers pay the Friday before.
Days Until Payday worked example
Paid every two weeks, last on Friday 25 September 2026: counting from Friday 2 October, the next payday is Friday 9 October, 7 days away, then 23 October, 6 November, 20 November and 4 December.
More Days Until Payday examples
Paid on the 15th and the last day of each month, counting from Friday 2 October 2026: the next payday is Thursday 15 October, 13 days away with 9 working days in between, then 31 October, 15 November and 30 November.
Where the Days Until Payday calculator can give the wrong answer
- Semimonthly dates differ by employer — some pay on the 1st and 15th. If yours does, use 'I know the date' instead.
- Weekend and holiday paydays are usually moved by the employer, often to the business day before. The page notes when a payday falls on a weekend.
- The day the money clears your bank can differ from the payday itself; use the date funds arrive if that is what you are budgeting for.
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Days Until Payday FAQ
- Fourteen days after your last one. Choose 'my last payday and how often I'm paid', pick every two weeks, and the page lists the next six.
- Biweekly is every two weeks — 26 paydays a year. Semimonthly is twice a month on set dates — 24 a year. Each semimonthly paycheck is a little larger for the same salary.
- 52 weekly, 26 biweekly (occasionally 27, when the calendar fits an extra one in), 24 semimonthly and 12 monthly.
- The headline counts calendar days; a second line counts working days (Monday to Friday) before the payday.
- A year is 52 weeks plus one or two days. Those spare days add up to a full two-week cycle about every 11 years, and in that year a biweekly schedule fits 27 paydays instead of 26.