'Does early pay in December help or hurt?'

10 January 2010

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Poll Started 11 January 2009: Does early pay in December help or hurt? Many employers pay staff earlier in December so money is in their accounts in time for Christmas. Yet this means the normal monthly salary needs to stretch over a longer period, and with Christmas and January sales it's a particularly high spend time. Do you think early pay in December helps or hurts?

Poll Started 11 January 2009:

Does early pay in December help or hurt?

Many employers pay staff earlier in December so money is in their accounts in time for Christmas. Yet this means the normal monthly salary needs to stretch over a longer period, and with Christmas and January sales it's a particularly high spend time.

Do you think early pay in December helps or hurts?

Results

A. It's a help – money pre-Christmas is useful.		2,835 votes (27 %)
B. It hurts – keep it at the normal time to help budgeting.		7,862 votes (73 %)

                   10,697 votes received.

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