2027 Pay Period Calendar
Choose how often you get paid and the date your schedule starts. The calendar below shows every pay date in 2027, adjusts for weekends and federal holidays the way your employer chooses, and lets you print or download the whole year.
| # | Period starts | Period ends | Pay day (as scheduled) | Actual pay date | Moved because of |
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2027 at a glance
What this tool does
It computes pay dates — it does not calculate pay. Pick one of the four common pay frequencies, set the anchor date your schedule uses, and choose what should happen when a payday lands on a weekend or a federal holiday: move it earlier, move it later, or leave it as-is.
Every date on this site is produced by code from the 2027 calendar — nothing is typed in by hand — and the calculations are locked by automated tests. If your employer uses a different rule than the one you pick here, your paycheck schedule comes from your employer.
Quick answers for 2027
- Biweekly on Fridays? 2027 has 53 Fridays, so a schedule anchored on January 1 pays 27 times (the last one on December 31), while one anchored on January 8 pays 26 times. See the full 26 vs 27 explanation.
- Weekly on Fridays? 53 pay dates — the weekly calendar.
- Semi-monthly? 24 nominal pay dates; six land on weekends in 2027 — the semi-monthly calendar.
- Monthly? 12 pay dates, and month-ends in Jan, Feb and Oct are touched by weekends — the monthly calendar.
- Federal employee? The 26 official NFC pay periods are on the federal pay period calendar page, with source links.
- Holidays that move pay dates: the 2027 federal holidays list.
Federal holidays used by this tool
When the "move to a workday" options are selected, the generator skips the twelve dates below — the eleven 2027 federal holidays plus Friday, December 31, which is the observed New Year's Day for 2028. Source: OPM federal holiday schedule.
2027-01-012027-01-182027-02-152027-05-312027-06-182027-07-052027-09-062027-10-112027-11-112027-11-252027-12-242027-12-31