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Budget templates built around paychecks, not months.

Three printable templates, free and with no email required. Each one is a block per pay period, because a month is the wrong container for money that arrives every two weeks.

Paycheck budget template

One block per paycheck, whatever your cadence. Twenty six of them, which is a year of fortnightly pay.

Biweekly budget template

Twenty six blocks, one per paycheck in a year of fortnightly pay. Not twelve months with two columns each.

Bill tracker

Every bill in the pay period that has to cover it, listed by the date it falls.

Why a block per pay period

A monthly budget asks you to plan a month you have not been paid for yet. If your money arrives fortnightly, the plan and the paycheck never line up, and the gap between them is where the overspending lives.

A block per pay period asks a smaller and answerable question: what has to come out of this paycheck before the next one arrives. Bills go in by due date, and what is left is what is left.

A Google Sheets version, which dates the blocks for you and marks the two three paycheck months, is coming.

When the spreadsheet stops being worth it

Cashrou does this arithmetic on the same layout, and keeps the figures current without you retyping them. The templates are free either way.