When Is The Pay Day for US and UK ?

Some people get paid weekly.
Some people get paid every two weeks.
Some people get paid semi-monthly.
Some people get paid monthly.

How much money potential customers have certainly affects sales. Your country seems to have more static paydays. In the USA, it can be any time, depending on the person's career.

In the U.S. (generally speaking) payday is every other Friday or on the 1st and the 15th. (bi-weekly vs. bi-monthly)

For software sales, I hear Thursday is a good day for sales. But it's all very arbitrary. Run your own A/B testing and see what works.

In the U.S. different jobs have different paydays. I have worked jobs where I got paid every day, every Friday, every other Friday, on the 5th and 20th of each month, once a month on the 22nd of each month, and once a month on the 1st of the month. All of these jobs were within one industry, the marine transportation or Merchant Marines, industry.

We have no one payday that covers everyone, or even most everyone. Some people will say that the standard is 2 times a month on the 5th and 20th and a large number of people do get paid on this scale but there are many many more payment methods.

Honestly, it all depends on what type of job you have and what company you work for as the companies set their own paydays, it is not controlled by a govt. body.

As far as I know, the only control the govt. has over paydays in the U.S. is the regulation that you must pay each worker minimum wage for every hour that they work. Anything other than that is controlled by the companies themselves or the industry in some situations.

In the UK payday is usually the last day of the month - 30th or 31st. Some people get paid weekly, but not many.

There is no reliable standard.

Some businesses pay based on the month; this is usually the first or fifteenth, sometimes both. Many businesses pay once monthly on the third or the fifth (most government checks arrive in this window). Some pay on the first and third (or second and fourth) specific weekday of the month.

Others pay based on the week. I have worked places which paid on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Some paid every week; some paid every second week. I have never worked anywhere that the weekly payday was on a Thursday, but I've had friends who did.

And some pay by the day. I've worked in various jobs where you literally got a check (or sometimes cash) at the end of the day you do the work, or on the morning of the following day. Construction cleanup was one of those jobs; the crew went home at five, and then my crew would come clean up the site. The next morning, the foreman would come in and look at how clean the site was, and I'd have to make a special trip to pick up our pay for doing the cleanup. When I picked up the guys to go clean up again at the end of the day, I paid them their share.

So no, it doesn't really affect business. There are plenty of people in most niches who are getting paid on any given day of the week or month.

For monthly pay in the UK, it's normally the end of the month.

It could be the last day, or it could be the last weekday before the end of the month. The 28th is a common date as well (probably because every month has a 28th date).

That's why, in the UK, you often see more paid events scheduled for the last weekend of the month, because it's just after everyone has been paid - so they can afford to go for an evening out and spend money.

Thom