Back in the early 80's we got paid on the last Friday of each month. The result was uneven pay periods of 4 and 5 weeks. Those 5 week months were horrid back when we were new and broke.

Then just about everybody went to simple 2 week pay periods. It was pretty much the same problem but at least you had checks coming in on at least a bi-weekly basis so you did not run out of groceries. There are months with 2 paydays and some with 3 but it was easier to budget for a 2 week period.

One guy told me that his company still paid monthly but always on the 28th. I think that would work well for budgeting monthly payments especially.

The best situation we had was when I got paid monthly but my wife got paid weekly back in our broke days. We had grocery money every week and big bill money at month end.