2027 Paycheck Calendar Generator
Build a free paycheck calendar for the whole year in a few seconds. Pick how often you are paid, enter one payday you know, and see every payday in 2027 on a twelve-month calendar, with the number of paychecks in each month, the months that hold an extra one, and your projected income for the year if you add a take-home amount. No account and no email address. Nothing you enter leaves this page.
Paycheck calendar generator
Choose how often you are paid and enter one payday you know. Your full-year calendar updates as you type, and nothing you enter is sent anywhere.
Biweekly, counting from Fri, Jan 1, 2027.
- Paychecks in 2027
- 27
- Three-paycheck months
- 3
January, July and December hold three paychecks in 2027. January: Fri, Jan 1, Fri, Jan 15, Fri, Jan 29. July: Fri, Jul 2, Fri, Jul 16, Fri, Jul 30. December: Fri, Dec 3, Fri, Dec 17, Fri, Dec 31. Plan these months ahead: the usual bills still arrive, and the extra check is taxed like any other.
Biweekly means every 14 days, which is 26 paychecks in most years and 27 when the year's first payday is January 1 (or January 1 or 2 in a leap year). This schedule has 27. Semi-monthly pay, twice a month on fixed dates, is always 24.
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
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| 1 payday | 2 | |||||
| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 payday | 16 |
| 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 payday | 30 |
| 31 |
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 payday | 13 |
| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 payday | 27 |
| 28 |
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 payday | 13 |
| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 payday | 27 |
| 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 payday | 10 |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 payday | 24 |
| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
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| 1 | ||||||
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 payday | 8 |
| 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 payday | 22 |
| 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 |
| 30 | 31 |
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 payday | 5 | ||
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 payday | 19 |
| 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
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| 1 | 2 payday | 3 | ||||
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 payday | 17 |
| 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 payday | 31 |
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 payday | 14 |
| 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 payday | 28 |
| 29 | 30 | 31 |
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 payday | 11 |
| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 payday | 25 |
| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
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| 1 | 2 | |||||
| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 payday | 9 |
| 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 payday | 23 |
| 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
| 31 |
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 payday | 6 | |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 payday | 20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
| 28 | 29 | 30 |
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
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| 1 | 2 | 3 payday | 4 | |||
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 payday | 18 |
| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 payday |
| Month | Paychecks | Paydays |
|---|---|---|
| January (extra) | 3 | 1, 15, 29 |
| February | 2 | 12, 26 |
| March | 2 | 12, 26 |
| April | 2 | 9, 23 |
| May | 2 | 7, 21 |
| June | 2 | 4, 18 |
| July (extra) | 3 | 2, 16, 30 |
| August | 2 | 13, 27 |
| September | 2 | 10, 24 |
| October | 2 | 8, 22 |
| November | 2 | 5, 19 |
| December (extra) | 3 | 3, 17, 31 |
| Year | 27 |
Every 2027 payday as a list (27)
- Fri, Jan 1, 2027
- Fri, Jan 15, 2027
- Fri, Jan 29, 2027
- Fri, Feb 12, 2027
- Fri, Feb 26, 2027
- Fri, Mar 12, 2027
- Fri, Mar 26, 2027
- Fri, Apr 9, 2027
- Fri, Apr 23, 2027
- Fri, May 7, 2027
- Fri, May 21, 2027
- Fri, Jun 4, 2027
- Fri, Jun 18, 2027
- Fri, Jul 2, 2027
- Fri, Jul 16, 2027
- Fri, Jul 30, 2027
- Fri, Aug 13, 2027
- Fri, Aug 27, 2027
- Fri, Sep 10, 2027
- Fri, Sep 24, 2027
- Fri, Oct 8, 2027
- Fri, Oct 22, 2027
- Fri, Nov 5, 2027
- Fri, Nov 19, 2027
- Fri, Dec 3, 2027
- Fri, Dec 17, 2027
- Fri, Dec 31, 2027
Projected from your schedule. These are not confirmed deposit dates: holidays and your employer's and bank's processing can move a deposit. Amounts are your figure multiplied by the number of paychecks, with nothing added or deducted.
The calendar starts with an example: paid every two weeks, beginning with the first Friday of 2027. Change the schedule and payday to your own and everything updates.
How the paycheck calendar works
Every pay schedule is a rule for stepping from one payday to the next. The calendar takes the one payday you know and applies that rule forward and backward across the year.
- Weekly steps 7 days at a time, always on the same weekday.
- Biweekly steps 14 days at a time, always on the same weekday.
- Semi-monthly pays on the same two days of every month, such as the 1st and the 15th, or the 15th and the last day.
- Monthly pays on the same day of every month.
The payday you enter can be in any year, past or future. If you were paid on a Friday last March, the calendar counts forward in whole weeks to find every Friday payday next year. Dates are counted as calendar days, so a daylight saving change or a leap day never shifts a payday by one.
Paydays near the end of a month
Months are different lengths, so a payday on the 29th, 30th or 31st needs a rule. The calendar uses the one payroll departments use: when a month does not have your day, you are paid on its last day. A monthly payday on the 31st lands on February 28 (February 29 in a leap year), April 30, and so on, and never rolls into the next month. On a semi-monthly schedule, "last day of the month" means exactly that every month.
Weekends and holidays
On a weekly or biweekly schedule the weekday never changes, so a payday does not drift onto a weekend. On a semi-monthly or monthly schedule it can: the 15th is a Saturday in some months. Employers handle that differently, so the calendar shows the scheduled date unless you choose a rule. You can choose "paid the Friday before" or "paid the Monday after", and the calendar marks every payday it moved.
Bank holidays are not adjusted for. Which days are holidays, and what your employer and bank do about them, is their decision, and a calendar that guessed would show you wrong dates with confidence. Your employer's payroll calendar is the authority on your exact deposit dates.
Biweekly vs. semi-monthly pay
These two are often treated as the same thing. They are not, and the difference shows up all year.
- Biweekly pay arrives every 14 days. A year is 52 weeks and a day or two, so it holds 26 paychecks, and occasionally 27. Because the paydays move through the calendar, most months hold two and a couple hold three.
- Semi-monthly pay arrives on two fixed dates each month. That is exactly 24 paychecks a year, every year, and never three in a month. Each check is larger than a biweekly check for the same salary, because the year is split 24 ways instead of 26.
If you are not sure which you have, look at two consecutive pay stubs. If the dates are 14 days apart and on the same weekday, it is biweekly. If they are on the same days of the month, it is semi-monthly. Semi-monthly pay budgeting covers the twice-a-month schedule in detail, and budgeting for biweekly and semi-monthly pay compares the two.
Extra-paycheck months
On a biweekly schedule, any month whose first payday falls early enough holds three paychecks: on the 1st, 2nd or 3rd in a 31-day month, and on the 1st or 2nd in a 30-day month. On a weekly schedule the same drift gives some months five paychecks instead of four. The calendar marks those months in words as well as colour.
They are worth knowing about in advance. Your rent and other monthly bills are already covered by the ordinary two (or four) checks, so an extra one is the most flexible money you will see all year. It is not a bonus and it is not untaxed: the usual withholding comes out of it. The three-paycheck month guide lists the three-paycheck months on every common biweekly schedule and goes through how to plan for them.
Some years hold more paychecks than usual. A biweekly year holds 27 when its first payday is January 1 (or January 1 or 2 in a leap year), and a weekly year holds 53 when January 1 is a payday weekday (or January 2 in a leap year). If your pay is a salary divided by the number of checks, a 27-pay year can mean slightly smaller checks. Your employer decides how it handles one.
2027 paycheck calendar examples
Worked out by the same calculation as the generator above, for common schedules. Your own dates depend on your own payday.
- Biweekly, Fridays from January 1: 27 paychecks in 2027. 3 three-paycheck months: January (1, 15, 29), July (2, 16, 30), December (3, 17, 31).
- Biweekly, Fridays from January 8: 26 paychecks in 2027. 2 three-paycheck months: April (2, 16, 30), October (1, 15, 29).
- Weekly, every Friday: 53 paychecks in 2027. 5 five-paycheck months: January (1, 8, 15, 22, 29), April (2, 9, 16, 23, 30), July (2, 9, 16, 23, 30), October (1, 8, 15, 22, 29), December (3, 10, 17, 24, 31).
- Weekly, every Monday: 52 paychecks in 2027. 4 five-paycheck months: March (1, 8, 15, 22, 29), May (3, 10, 17, 24, 31), August (2, 9, 16, 23, 30), November (1, 8, 15, 22, 29).
- Semi-monthly, the 15th and the last day: 24 paychecks in 2027. Two every month, never three.
- Monthly, on the 31st: 12 paychecks in 2027. One every month; February's is on the 28th, and April, June, September and November's on the 30th.
Saving, printing and sharing your calendar
- Print or save as PDF. Prints all twelve months on one page, with paydays circled so it reads clearly in black and white, then the month-by-month table. Choose "Save as PDF" as the printer to keep a copy.
- Download CSV. One row per payday: the date, weekday, month and paycheck number, plus your take-home amount if you entered one. Opens in Excel, Google Sheets and Numbers.
- Add to calendar (.ics). Every payday as an all-day event, for Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook. Importing the file again updates the same events rather than adding duplicates.
- Share link. Copies a link that rebuilds the same calendar for someone else. It carries the schedule only. Your take-home amount is never included.
The files are made in your browser from the dates on your screen, so they always match what you see.
How to budget with a paycheck calendar
A calendar tells you when money arrives. Budgeting by paycheck is the step after it: matching each bill to the paycheck that will pay it.
- Find the paycheck before each bill. Rent due on the 1st is paid from the last paycheck before the 1st, not the first one after it. The paycheck allocation calculator does this for every bill, shows it on a bill calendar beside your paydays and flags any pay period carrying too much. For rent alone, the rent split calculator works out how much each paycheck should set aside.
- Decide what the extra paychecks are for. Choose before they arrive, whether that is a buffer, a debt payment or an annual bill.
- Spread the irregular bills. Car registration and insurance renewals are easier as a little from every paycheck. The sinking fund calculator works out how much.
- Know your number between paydays. The daily spending allowance calculator shows what is left to spend each day once the bills are set aside.
Paycheck calendar questions
How many paychecks are in 2027?
It depends on the schedule. Semi-monthly pay is 24 and monthly pay is 12. Biweekly pay is 26 for most schedules and 27 for one: Fridays starting January 1, 2027, which ends on Friday, December 31, 2027. Weekly pay is 52, or 53 if you are paid on Fridays, because 2027 begins and ends on a Friday.
Which months have three paychecks in 2027?
On a biweekly Friday schedule starting January 1, 2027: January, July and December. On the Friday schedule starting January 8, 2027: April and October. Other weekdays give other months, which the generator works out from your payday.
Is biweekly the same as twice a month?
No. Biweekly is every two weeks: 26 or 27 paychecks a year, on the same weekday. Twice a month (semi-monthly) is two fixed dates each month: 24 paychecks a year. Biweekly pay produces three-paycheck months; semi-monthly pay does not.
What happens when a payday falls on a weekend?
On weekly and biweekly schedules it does not happen, because the weekday never changes. On semi-monthly and monthly schedules, most employers pay the business day before, and some pay the day after. Choose either rule in the generator and it moves those paydays and marks them. Holidays are not adjusted for, so check your employer's payroll calendar for those.
How is a payday on the 31st handled in shorter months?
It moves to the last day of that month: February 28 (or 29 in a leap year), and the 30th in April, June, September and November. It never rolls forward into the next month.
Can I put my paydays in Google Calendar?
Yes. Use "Add to calendar (.ics)" and import the file into Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook. Each payday is an all-day event, so it shows on the right date whatever time zone your calendar uses.
Does the calendar save my information?
Not unless you ask it to. The calendar runs entirely in your browser. If you choose Save My Paycheck Plan, your schedule and take-home amount are kept in this browser for up to three days so you can carry them into a Pocket Runway account; they reach us only when you confirm them during setup. The page records anonymous usage counts, such as that the generator was used, but never your dates, schedule or amounts. A share link carries the schedule only, never your take-home amount.
Are these exact deposit dates?
They are projections from your schedule, not confirmed deposits. Holidays, your employer's payroll processing and your bank's posting times can move when the money actually appears.
This page is general educational information about cash-flow budgeting, not financial, tax, payroll or legal advice. Dates are calculated from the schedule you enter and are not confirmed deposit dates, and any amounts are your own figures multiplied by the number of paychecks. For questions about your own pay dates, deductions or tax situation, your pay stub, your employer and a qualified professional are the right sources.
More on pay schedules: three-paycheck months, semi-monthly pay budgeting, budgeting for biweekly and semi-monthly pay, hourly and shift work and irregular income. Matching bills to paychecks? See which paycheck should cover rent, the paycheck allocation calculator, or download the free paycheck budget template to plan a year of paydays and bills in a spreadsheet. Everything else is in the guide library.