2027 biweekly payday calendar every other Friday, on one page

Months with three paydays in 2027

Paid every two weeks, you get two paychecks in most months and three in a few. On this schedule they are April and October (Apr 2, Apr 16, Apr 30; Oct 1, Oct 15, Oct 29). Budgets built on two paychecks a month leave each third one free for savings or debt.

2027 has 53 Fridays, so the two every-other-Friday schedules pay 27 times (from Jan 1) and 26 times (from Jan 8). The 27-payday schedule is the one payroll and HR teams plan for: salaried staff paid an annual salary over 26 checks get an extra one, or slightly smaller checks if the employer divides by 27. A semimonthly schedule (the 15th and the last day) pays 24 times, every year.

Paydays on a federal holiday

On this schedule one payday falls on a federal day off:

• Fri, Dec 24: Christmas (observed; the holiday is Sat, Dec 25). 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 2027

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 2027. 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 2027 and may not match your provider's numbering. Source: OPM: Biweekly Caps on Premium Pay (2026).