If we are paid on the "normal" day of the month for December I for one will not be too unhappy - the nearly 6 weeks wait until the Jan pay packet is always a strain!
However if the pay is not in the bank at the end of each month, and I now check that its cleared - something I would never even thought of in 27 years until a few months ago - then I just hope that UK ATC stops the very next day.....