Interestingly, research shows that most humans eat between three to five pounds of food per day. Indeed, as we approach four pounds of food intake for the day, most of us are feeling pretty satisfied.
1 Semi-monthly (or Bi-monthly): Semi-monthly paychecks are issued twice a month, often on the 1st and the 15th of the month. 2  Thus there are 24 semi-monthly pay periods in a year.
The main difference between a biweekly and semimonthly payroll is that biweekly happens every two weeks while semimonthly occurs twice per month, such as on the 15th and final day of the month. An employee knows when each biweekly payday will happen, such as every other Friday; however, semimonthly paydays are not as easy to predict as they may fall on different days of the month.