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Why technology employers cluster around semimonthly payroll

A semimonthly payroll schedule pays employees twice per month on fixed calendar dates, usually the 15th and the last business day, producing exactly 24 paychecks per year. Semimonthly is favored by banks, insurance carriers, technology companies, utilities, and consulting firms because it aligns naturally with monthly accounting closes.

Within the technology sector, this pattern reflects the underlying labor mix: a workforce that is predominantly salaried and concentrated in corporate functions. Employers in this group also benefit from a single, predictable payroll close, which simplifies tax filings, benefits accruals, and end-of-period accounting. State law sets a floor (most states require at least semimonthly payroll for non-exempt staff), but large multi-state employers generally adopt the most generous cadence company-wide for simplicity. See the NCSL state payday-law summary for the underlying rules.

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All 114 catalogued employers in Technology

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CompanyPay frequencyPaydayHQEmployees
8x8 Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Campbell, CA 2,300
Activision Blizzard Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Santa Monica, CA 17,000
Adobe Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Jose, CA 30,000
Akamai Technologies Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Cambridge, MA 10,250
Alphabet Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Mountain View, CA 182,502
Anaplan Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Francisco, CA 2,500
Apple Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Cupertino, CA 161,000
Applied Materials Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Santa Clara, CA 33,000
Arista Networks Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Santa Clara, CA 4,250
Asana Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Francisco, CA 1,800
Atlassian Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Sydney, AU 11,067
Autodesk Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Francisco, CA 13,700
Bill.com Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Jose, CA 2,700
BlackLine Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Woodland Hills, CA 2,000
Box Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Redwood City, CA 2,700
Broadcom Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Jose, CA 37,000
Bumble Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Austin, TX 1,100
Cisco Systems Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Jose, CA 84,900
Cloudflare Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Francisco, CA 3,700
CoStar Group Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Washington, DC 6,800
Compass Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month New York, NY 5,800
Confluent Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Mountain View, CA 2,940
Coupa Software Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Mateo, CA 3,300
CrowdStrike Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Austin, TX 7,900
CyberArk Software Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Petach Tikva, IL 3,000
Datadog Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month New York, NY 5,000
Dell Technologies Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Round Rock, TX 120,000
Diebold Nixdorf Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month North Canton, OH 21,000
DocuSign Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Francisco, CA 6,900
Domo Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month American Fork, UT 1,000
DoorDash Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Francisco, CA 16,800
Dropbox Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Francisco, CA 2,700
Elastic Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Mountain View, CA 3,500
Electronic Arts Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Redwood City, CA 13,700
F5 Networks Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Seattle, WA 6,700
Fastly Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Francisco, CA 1,100
Five9 Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Ramon, CA 2,700
Forrester Research Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Cambridge, MA 1,900
Garmin Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Olathe, KS 19,500
Gartner Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Stamford, CT 21,000
GitLab Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Francisco, CA 2,500
GoDaddy Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Tempe, AZ 7,300
HP Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Palo Alto, CA 58,000
HashiCorp Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Francisco, CA 2,400
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Spring, TX 62,000
IBM Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Armonk, NY 282,200
Instacart Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Francisco, CA 3,500
Intel Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Santa Clara, CA 124,800
Intuit Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Mountain View, CA 18,200
Juniper Networks Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Sunnyvale, CA 11,000
Lam Research Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Fremont, CA 17,200
LogMeIn (GoTo) Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Boston, MA 3,000
Lyft Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Francisco, CA 2,900
Match Group Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Dallas, TX 2,700
Meta Platforms Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Menlo Park, CA 67,317
Micron Technology Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Boise, ID 43,000
Microsoft Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Redmond, WA 221,000
MongoDB Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month New York, NY 4,900
NCR Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Atlanta, GA 35,000
NetApp Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Jose, CA 12,000
Nvidia Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Santa Clara, CA 26,196
Okta Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Francisco, CA 6,000
Olo Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month New York, NY 700
Opendoor Technologies Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Francisco, CA 1,600
Oracle Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Austin, TX 159,000
Palo Alto Networks Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Santa Clara, CA 14,000
PayPal Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Jose, CA 27,200
Pinterest Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Francisco, CA 4,040
Procore Technologies Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Carpinteria, CA 3,800
Qualcomm Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Diego, CA 50,000
Qualys Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Foster City, CA 2,300
Rapid7 Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Boston, MA 2,600
Re/Max Holdings Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Denver, CO 590
Realogy Holdings (Anywhere) Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Madison, NJ 12,500
Reddit Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Francisco, CA 2,000
Redfin Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Seattle, WA 4,800
RingCentral Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Belmont, CA 4,750
Roblox Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Mateo, CA 2,400
Roku Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Jose, CA 3,650
SailPoint Technologies Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Austin, TX 2,300
Salesforce Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Francisco, CA 72,682
Seagate Technology Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Dublin, IE 39,000
ServiceNow Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Santa Clara, CA 22,668
Shopify Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Ottawa, ON 8,300
Slack Technologies Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Francisco, CA 2,545
Smartsheet Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Bellevue, WA 3,300
Snap Inc. Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Santa Monica, CA 5,288
Snowflake Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Bozeman, MT 7,000
Splunk Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Francisco, CA 8,400
Spotify Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month New York, NY 7,400
Square (Block) Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Oakland, CA 12,000
Squarespace Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month New York, NY 1,700
Take-Two Interactive Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month New York, NY 11,580
Tenable Holdings Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Columbia, MD 2,000
Texas Instruments Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Dallas, TX 33,000
Toast Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Boston, MA 5,300
Trimble Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Westminster, CO 12,000
Twilio Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Francisco, CA 7,900
Twitter (X) Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Francisco, CA 1,500
Uber Technologies Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Francisco, CA 32,200
VMware Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Palo Alto, CA 38,300
VeriSign Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Reston, VA 920
Veritone Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Irvine, CA 760
Western Digital Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Jose, CA 51,000
Wix.com Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Tel Aviv, IL 5,200
Workday Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Pleasanton, CA 18,500
Yelp Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Francisco, CA 4,690
Zebra Technologies Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Lincolnshire, IL 9,700
Zillow Group Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Seattle, WA 6,800
Zoom Video Communications Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Jose, CA 7,400
Zscaler Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Jose, CA 6,900
Zynga Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Mateo, CA 3,500
eBay Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month San Jose, CA 11,600
nCino Semimonthly the 15th and last day of the month Wilmington, NC 2,000

FAQ

Do most Technology companies pay weekly or biweekly?

The dominant pay frequency in the Technology sector is Semimonthly. Of the 114 large Technology employers catalogued, 114 pay semimonthly — reflecting the structural mix of hourly versus salaried labor.

What day of the week are Technology employees paid?

Payday in the sector typically lands on the 15th and last day of the month. Direct deposit is standard at virtually every Fortune 500-scale employer.

How many paychecks per year do Technology workers get?

Workers paid on the dominant semimonthly cadence receive 24 paychecks per calendar year.