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Technology companies that pay semimonthly

114 of the 114 catalogued technology employers (100%) pay on a semimonthly schedule. That's 24 paychecks per year, with payday typically on the 15th and last day of the month.

Why technology employers choose a semimonthly cycle

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.

In the Technology sector, the semimonthly cadence shows up wherever the underlying labor profile favors it. Software, hardware, and internet services tend to align payroll with the rhythm of monthly accounting closes, where two fixed paydays per month snap cleanly to the GL calendar. The semimonthly schedule also simplifies tax-deposit timing and benefits accruals across multi-state operations.

For employees, the practical implications are straightforward: 24 paychecks per year, with the gross divided across 24 equal periods. Workers comparing offers between same-sector employers can largely ignore pay-frequency differences when calculating annual compensation — but should pay attention when comparing weekly to monthly cycles, since the cash-flow gap can affect rent timing and bill autopay setups. Use the pay schedule calculator to model the per-check size against your current take-home.

All 114 Technology employers paying semimonthly

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

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