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Enter your salary or wage. See your biweekly take-home pay — the most common pay schedule in Canada.
+ Advanced options (overtime, bonus)
Independent estimate based on 2026 CRA federal/provincial payroll formulas, Revenu Québec figures, and published CPP/CPP2/QPP/QPP2, EI and QPIP rates. Not affiliated with the Canada Revenue Agency or the Government of Canada. Actual payroll may differ based on your employer’s specific deductions, benefits, TD1 claim amounts, and other factors. This tool does not constitute tax or financial advice.
“Biweekly” is already selected by default above — 26 pay periods per year, every two weeks.
Why biweekly means 26 paycheques, not 24
52 weeks ÷ 2 = 26 pay periods per year. This is different from semi-monthly pay, which is twice a month on fixed calendar dates (like the 1st and 15th) — that works out to 24 pay periods per year, not 26. The two schedules are easy to confuse but produce meaningfully different paycheque amounts for the same annual salary, since the same total is divided across a different number of payments.
In most calendar years, a biweekly schedule results in two months where employees receive three paycheques instead of the usual two — something budgeters should plan around.
Example: $75,000 salary in Ontario
Frequently asked questions
Is biweekly the same as semi-monthly?
No. Biweekly is every 2 weeks (26 pay periods/year); semi-monthly is twice a month on fixed dates (24 pay periods/year). They’re commonly confused but produce different paycheque amounts for the same salary.
Why do some months have 3 paycheques?
Because 26 biweekly periods don’t divide evenly into 12 months, roughly twice a year a month will contain three pay dates instead of two — a normal feature of biweekly schedules, not extra pay.
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