Most employers have direct deposit. Your pay is deposited directly into the bank account of your choosing. If you don't have a bank account then they set up a basic account that your check will go into.

There are people that still write checks. Mainly for things like rent etc. Of course, with on-line banking there are ways around this. The one thing that is still not very common is to do a direct account to account payment for individuals using account and BAN number. This seems to be more common in the UK.


Smaller companies may still provide paper checks for payroll. America is a huge place. It is very hard to give a typical way of how things are done.