A Guide to Holiday Pay for Your Business

Anyone who’s either held a job or had to pay a team around the holidays knows that it’s a tricky time for calculating paychecks.

Will you have to work during Christmas or the Fourth of July? Do you need to pay your employees while they’re not working at Thanksgiving? Can you still work if you don’t partake in turkey carving?

There tends to be lots of red tape around making money during the holidays, but that’s where the festive magic of holiday pay steps into play.

Holiday pay is any business owner’s answer to “What happens when Christmas falls on a Monday?” and the many other holiday-adjacent questions you’ll get from your employees.

We’re going to unpack everything you need to know about holiday pay — the laws associated with it, employee and business owner requirements, policies, and a few other things — here for you in this guide. Let’s fire up that sleigh and unpack the fireworks and start talking about holiday pay!