Paycheck Budget (Excel)

Budget by paycheck. See the tight ones coming.

Paid weekly or every two weeks? See exactly which bills each paycheck has to cover, what's left, and which paychecks will come up short, months before they do. No macros.

WHAT IT DOES

• Every payday of the year, worked out from your first payday

• Weekly, every 2 weeks, twice a month, or monthly pay

• Bills matched to the right paycheck by due date, even when a paycheck crosses into next month

• Plan tab: pick any payday to see its bills in date order, your spending, savings, and what's left

• Short and Tight warnings for every paycheck, months ahead

• Type the real amount when a paycheck is different, like overtime

• Extra paycheck months spotted for you

• Room for 40 bills and 12 spending and savings lines

• Dashboard: coming paychecks, short paychecks, saved this year, and a chart for the year

• Start Here guide and example budget

WHO IT'S FOR

Anyone paid weekly, every two weeks, or twice a month, living paycheck to paycheck or just wanting to plan ahead.

GOOD TO KNOW

• Works in Microsoft Excel: Microsoft 365, Excel 2010 or later on Windows, and Excel for Mac

• Normal .xlsx file: no macros to enable

• Nothing links to your bank

• One-off payment, instant download

Made by Lee at Sheet Leveller, whose tutorials have been watched 6.3 million times on YouTube.