Not sure how you got the impression that, "here in the US, it's always weekly pay." Semi weekly or bi-monthly is more common.

There are some delinquent employers and I'd say despite the illegality wage theft by an employer is considered a lesser crime by our justice system than stealing from your workplace.

Currently in the US, my full time job pays me every two weeks (May is a three paycheck month for us). It's a professional level job, but we're not overtime exempt, so I only work 40 hours a week or I need to take flex time to balance it out the next week. I sometimes work 9 or 10 hour days, but that just means I get to leave early on Friday.

My part time tutoring job pays once a month, I turn in teaching reports at the end of the week and they use that to calculate hours.

When I was teaching in China I'd get paid on the first of the month, never had any problems with delays, but that might be owed to being a foreign teacher.

When I was in Korea they'd pay twice a month, with the only delay being the first paycheck where they forgot to take down my banking information and the last paycheck that I had to fight HR for.

It largely depends on the employer. In the US, I've been paid weekly, every other week, and monthly.

As for overtime, again, it depends on the employer and the jurisdiction.

Some employers absolutely forbid overtime. Federal requirements state anything over 40 hours in a week is paid at nothing less than 1.5x the hourly rate.

But some employers, states, and industries have their own rules. I worked at a place that paid OT for anything more than 10 hours in a day, or 40 hours in a week and paid double time for anything after the 7th day in a row.

I get paid every two weeks and if that deposit doesn't hit my account then they can kiss my ass because I don't do shit for free

In MN, it seems to be almost universal for us to get paid bi-weekly. Most are on Friday, but my oddball employer ends the workweek on a Tuesday.

Wage theft in MN is much more subtle. It's very uncommon for a check to be late like that, in my experience. What employers will do instead is:

• Force you to work off the clock
• Force you into tipping pools or stealing tips
• Make paycheck deductions
• Not paying final wages
• Paying subminimum wages
• Worker misclassification

Ontario, Canada

Here in the US, it's always been weekly pay

There is no required pay frequency. I haven't personally been paid monthly, but it is allowed..

I don't think they ever had an issue with employers refusing to pay over here.

Trial shifts are a thing here, especially for service or kitchen jobs. It's illegal, but many people don't know their rights.

I've had problem try to not pay me after I quit. I had to take them to the labour board.

How often do you read about people being asked to clock out before they leave? Or only getting paid as long as re store is open and having to clean after? I feel like that's a very common

In China, my mom told me that sometimes they delay your pay for like a few days to sometimes even almost a month late... like its routine...

I've been paid late in Ontario. I've known people who had pay cuts because the company was t doing well.

There's no such thing as the 1.5x bonus for time over 40 hours in China...

I'm an engineer. As such, I am not covered by the employment standards act and my employer is not obligated to pay me to for overtime.

Sometimes they have performance-based bonus pay.

Like for example: my mom worked in electronics sales (think a sort of "Best Buy" type of thing) and like get commissions for making more sales... that type of stuff...

That's not uncommon at all. Some jobs are 100% commission.

Nothing to described is unheard of in Canada/the States. I'm kind of waiting for the "SIKE I WAS DESCRIBING THE US ALL ALONG" but figured I'd comment in case it was useful to anyone.

Most of the time in the US, if you are paid hourly, you get paid every other week. If you are salaried, you are paid twice a month. There are exceptions so don't consider it universal

In the United States, how frequently you get paid is not related to your location so much as it is to your industry. A lot of public jobs are paid once per month. Typical private jobs will pay twice per month. Neither of those are a hard and fast rule. Minimum wage(ish) jobs are more likely to pay weekly.

I've only ever been paid weekly or bi-weekly (as in every other week, not twice a week).

There is work on commission usually in sales. So you sell a thing, you get a percentage of the item's sale price as a bonus. There are also tips, but that can work differently depending on the specific location; some places try to pool it all together and split evenly with management taking a cut but some other places this is illegal.

Of course I also have yet to work a job that wasn't enganging in wage theft, either. Which is either super bad luck on my part, or it's just a massive fucking issue. (hint: it's a massive fucking issue)

US. Paid twice a month. My current employer payment system is fully automated, so my paycheck shows up at the same time down to the minute. I'm also paid a set salary and expected to work 40+ hours "until the work is done" so balancing my responsibilities is up to me. Lots of so-called "professional" or "white-collar" jobs are like this. Specifically, I'm an engineering manager.

Every job I can think of has paid twice a month, even going back to minimum wage jobs I had in high school.

I've seen signs for jobs that pay daily, they are all for entry-level jobs like for a fast food restaurant position.