2026 biweekly payday calendar every other Friday, on one page

Months with three paydays in 2026

Paid every two weeks, you get two paychecks in most months and three in a few. On this schedule they are January and July (Jan 2, Jan 16, Jan 30; Jul 3, Jul 17, Jul 31). Budgets built on two paychecks a month leave each third one free for savings or debt.

2026 has 52 Fridays, so the two every-other-Friday schedules pay 26 times (from Jan 2) and 26 times (from Jan 9). A semimonthly schedule (the 15th and the last day) pays 24 times, every year.

Paydays on a federal holiday

On this schedule 2 paydays fall on a federal day off:

• Fri, Jun 19: Juneteenth. Banks and the Federal Reserve are closed, so most employers pay the business day before (Thu, Jun 18).
• Fri, Jul 3: Independence Day (observed; the holiday is Sat, Jul 4). Banks are usually open: the Federal Reserve doesn't close on the Friday before a Saturday holiday.

Whether pay moves is your employer's policy. Holidays from the US Office of Personnel Management; bank days from the Federal Reserve's holiday schedule.

Federal pay periods in 2026

Federal employees are paid on a biweekly cycle of pay periods that run from a Sunday to the second Saturday after. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) gives Sunday, January 11, 2026 as the first day of the first standard pay period beginning in 2026. Counting 14 days at a time from it, these are the pay periods that begin in 2026. We counted them ourselves; they aren't copied from an OPM table.

Pay dates follow the end of each period by about a week and are set by your agency's payroll provider (NFC, DFAS, the Interior Business Center or GSA), not OPM; check its published calendar. The numbers here count periods beginning in 2026 and may not match your provider's numbering. Source: OPM: Biweekly Caps on Premium Pay (2026).