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PayDate Calculator

Introduction

Being anally-retentive about budgeting, I like to know how may weeks my monthly pay has to last, either four or five weeks. The “four or five week month” depends on whether you’re paid monthly, not thirteen times a year as some people are.

I wrote a small utility for Windows XP / Vista using the .Net framework to calculate the number of weeks that your pay has to last, given a starting month, the date of the month you get paid on and the day you take your money out - told you I love budgeting.

Given a number of months to calculate for, it returns data telling you when your next pay day is, and how many weeks in the month.

A picture would help:

Pay Date Calculator screenshot

After installation, you have to set up your payment date, your withdrawal day, whether you get paid on weekends (the application assumes your payday is advanced until it is not on a Saturday or Sunday), and the number of months you want to calculate. After that, you just click the Calculate button and results will be displayed. Next time you launch the app, it will have remembered all your settings.

Installation

First, make sure you’re using Windows XP or Vista :P Next, make sure you have Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0 installed (you can check from Control Panel -> Add / Remove Programs). If not, you’ll need to download and install it before installing PayDate Calculator - download Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0.

Once that’s done, download PayDateCalc.zip, extract it to a temporary area on your PC, just run setup.exe and follow the instructions. After installation, you can find it in Start -> All Programs -> PayDateCalc. It can be uninstalled from Control Panel -> Add / Remove Programs - standard.

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