B. Notwithstanding subsection A of this section, each employer in this state whose principal place of business is located outside of this state and whose payroll system is centralized outside of this state may designate one or more days in each month as fixed paydays for payment of wages to the following employees:

1. 1. Professional, administrative or executive employees or employees employed in the capacity of an outside salesman as those terms are defined under the fair labor standards act of 1938, as amended.
2. 2. Employees employed in a supervisory capacity as defined under the national labor relations act.

C. Each employer, on each of the regular paydays, shall pay to the employees all wages due the employees up to that date, except:

1. 1. In the case of employees remaining in the service of any such employer, with the exception of school district employees or persons employed by an employee leasing firm that contracts with a school district, all wages other than overtime or exception pay not to exceed five days of labor may be withheld. School districts or employee leasing firms that contract with a school district may withhold wages for up to seven business days during their normal two-week payroll processing cycle. An employer other than a school district or employee leasing firm that contracts with a school district may satisfy the requirements of this paragraph by any of the following:

   1. (a) Personally delivering the wages to the employee not later than five business days after the end of the most recent pay period.
   2. (b) Depositing the wages in the United States mail not later than five business days after the end of the most recent pay period for delivery to an address specified by the employee.
   3. (c) Personally delivering the wages to the employee not later than ten days after the end of the most recent pay period for an employer whose payroll system is centralized outside of this state.
2. 2. In the case of employees of school districts or of the Arizona state schools for the deaf and the blind, the annual salary may be prorated in any number of payments, and the employee may select whether to have the salary prorated or paid during the actual months worked. If the employee's salary is prorated, all payments still due at the close of the school attendance year or fiscal year may at the option of the employee be paid in either a lump sum or paid within a period of two months after the close of the fiscal year. If the employee's salary is prorated, the employee's salary under the contract may be prorated into equal payments and paid beginning with the first pay period that the employee works.
3. 3. Overtime or exception pay shall be paid not later than sixteen days after the end of the most recent pay period.

D. An employer may choose one of the following methods to pay wages to employees under subsection A of this section:

1. 1. In lawful currency of the United States.
2. 2. In negotiable bank checks.
3. 3. In the case of this state or any political subdivision of this state, warrants payable on demand and bearing even date with the payday.
4. 4. With the written consent of the employee, by deposit on the payday to the employee's credit at a financial institution of the employee's choice that is a member of the federal deposit insurance corporation or any other comparable federal or state agency.
5. 5. If the employer has offered deposit on the payday to the employee's credit at a financial institution of the employee's choice that is a member of the federal deposit insurance corporation or any other comparable federal or state agency and the employee does not provide consent and does not designate a financial institution, by deposit on the payday to the employee's credit to a payroll card account.