About PaydayCal

PaydayCal does one thing: it shows you your payday calendar — every deposit date for the year, with your 3-paycheck months highlighted — from a single input: your last payday.

We built it because the existing answers were bad. News articles list generic "3-paycheck month" dates that only apply to two specific Friday schedules, ignore holiday adjustments, and go stale the moment the year rolls over. Payroll articles about 27-pay-period years are written for HR departments, not for the people wondering whether their check will shrink. And none of them let you export your paydays to your phone's calendar or print them for the fridge.

How the math works

PaydayCal computes your schedule locally in your browser — your dates never leave your device. Paydays that fall on weekends or observed US federal holidays are moved to the previous business day, the convention used by the vast majority of US payroll providers. The engine correctly handles the tricky cases, like a January 1 payday sliding back to December 31 and moving an entire "bonus month," and it flags rare 27-pay-period years automatically.

Accuracy, honestly

Payroll is ultimately your employer's call: a few companies pay after holidays instead of before, and some banks post deposits early. PaydayCal shows the standard convention and labels every adjusted date so you can sanity-check it against your pay stub. If something looks off, we want to know — tell us here.

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