Korean Job Discussion Forums

[just alittlecrazy]

I have seen a lot of disscussion over pay days, when they are and when they should be.
so when do you get paid?
I get paid on the 10th of the following month, which I don't have a problem with and its regular.

[Young FRANKenstein]

I'm paid 10 days before the end of the month, like clockwork.

[alabamaman]

[Young FRANKenstein]

[poet13]

EPIK
I get paid on the 25th.
If the 25th is on a weekend, I get paid on the last business day before.
If the 25th is a holiday, I get paid before.

[alabamaman]

http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=87198

[Fresh Prince]

OP: Why are you OK with receiving your pay late?

[just alittlecrazy]

I don't consider it late as its paid regularly on the due date. Also it is normal practice in some Western businesses to pay the month following. My uni salary was paid on the 14th of the following month so I'm quite used to it.

[oneofthesarahs]

I started working on the 25th of the month, and so I got paid for the first time on the 25th of the following month. I always get paid on time, and if the 25th falls on a weekend, then I get paid the Friday before. No complaints here.

[Whistleblower]

[Seoul_Star]

I get paid on the 10th. Quite a few months back, prior to accepting my position, I read all of alabamaman's contract critiques and advice, so I asked my recruiter at the time why payday was on the 10th. She responded that this was very normal, and that all Koreans were paid on the 10th or the 25th of the following month. I thought this to be interesting. Really, I don't care what day they pay me on, as long as it's on time, and there aren't any illegal deductions. I asked my recruiter that question simply to see if she would tell me the real reason hagwons pay on the 10th, of if she would make up a cute excuse that didn't involve mentioning foreigners doing a midnight runner to Thailand.

[ontheway]

"( 2 ) Pursuant to Korean Law, your employer enventually has to pay you on a fixed date in the same work month and not the following work month. "

Alabamaman,

You and others have been making this claim a long time, but no one has ever posted an actual reference showing this is true. Do you have one?

[ttompatz]

[ontheway]

ttompatz,

I've seen that reference before, however, there is nothing there that states that payment must be made withing the same month that the wages were earned. It only states that workers must be paid every month. Having a delay in payment so that the wages being paid fall a week or two after they are earned is not precluded. Nor does it preclude paying wages in the month following.

Indeed, as was pointed out by another poster in a related thread, it would be impossible to calculate overtime (or undertime, sick days etc.) so as to pay a worker within the same month.

If that is the only reference, then the oft asserted claim that wages must be paid withing the same month must be false.

[Young FRANKenstein]