Kroger Announces 2:1 Stock Split, Buyback & Dividend Hike. The Kroger Co. (KR - Free Report) announced a 2 for 1 stock split yesterday at its annual shareholder meeting. The split is scheduled on or about Jul 13, 2015 for shareholders as of Jul 6.
1 Biweekly. 2  Biweekly is the other most common pay schedule. When employees are paid biweekly, they are paid every other week, usually on a Friday. This means there are usually 26 pay periods in a year, but sometimes 27 depending on how many Fridays there are that year. This also means that there are some months that employees are paid 3 times per month.
If you pay your employees biweekly, you typically pay them 26 times a year. A normal year has 365 days, while a leap year has 366. A biweekly payroll has 14 days, with 26 pay periods, which covers 364 days. To make up for the one-day difference during regular years and the two-day difference during leap years, over a period of several years, employees would receive a 27th paycheck.