How to Live on a Bonus: Making It Work With An Irregular Income

If you get paid on a regular schedule for your salaried job where you know what your check amount is going to be weeks in advance, it’s pretty easy to financially plan when you know that your paycheck the second week of January is going to be the same amount as your paycheck the second week of June. But what about those folks who don’t have regular, repeating paycheck amounts and instead have irregular income? How do they plan their finances for the year?