The Paycheck Plan

Most budgets are built around a month. You don’t get paid a month.

You get paid a paycheck. So the rent being due on the 1st and the car insurance being due on the 20th are two different problems — and a monthly total hides both of them. That is why the budget balances on paper and still runs out on a Thursday.

The Paycheck Plan asks one question per bill: which paycheck pays it? Answer that for everything you owe, and the money left over stops being a guess. It becomes a number you can actually spend.

What you get — three ways to run the same plan

• The spreadsheet (.xlsx). Five tabs with every formula already written: Start Here, My Bills, My Savings, the Paycheck Plan dashboard, and a twelve-month tracker. Type your numbers over the worked example and the plan builds itself. Opens in Excel, Numbers, or Google Sheets.
• The app. The same plan on your phone, at dollarsplussense.com/app/paycheck-plan/. Tap a bill to move it onto a different paycheck and watch every total change — that one tap is the thing paper and print-outs can’t do. Add it to your home screen and it opens like an app, works with no signal, and keeps everything on your own device.
• The printable pages (PDF). A one-page Paycheck Page to fill in the morning your pay lands, plus a Bills & Savings sheet you complete once. Print them, or keep one on the fridge so the plan is somewhere the whole household can see it.

What it actually does

• Splits every bill across your paychecks so nothing lands in a week that can’t carry it
• Works out your sinking funds — Christmas, car repairs, the insurance renewal — into one honest monthly number
• Shows what’s genuinely left to spend, and what that comes to per day
• Flags a short paycheck the second it happens, and tells you the one move that fixes it
• Handles the third paycheck you get twice a year, before it disappears

Who it’s for

Anyone paid weekly, fortnightly, twice a month, or on a number that moves. If your pay is irregular, this is the method built for it — you plan each paycheck as it arrives instead of guessing a month in advance.

Sense: A short paycheck is information, not a verdict. It only means the plan isn’t finished yet.
Savvy: And a plan you can move around is the only kind anybody keeps.

What this is not

It isn’t a net-worth tracker, a debt payoff plan, or an investment sheet. It does one job and does it properly: it decides where the money goes before the money lands.

Educational information only. Dollars Plus Sense is not a licensed financial advisor and nothing here is personalised financial advice.

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