For rated tournaments, how quickly will player ratings be updated?

For rated tournaments, how quickly will player ratings be updated?

The answer to this is unfortunately verbose.  Generally, the live (unofficial) player ratings can be found a few hours after the club submits the rating report to US Chess, and players can use this to track their progress as a player.  This can be found from the event rating report > Section > Games > Player. 

However, the official rating for players will be updated the 1st of every month, based on a 3rd Wednesday of the month cutoff.  This is the rating used for tournament pairings, unless the tournament organizer explicitly says that the live rating will be used instead.  For a more detailed explanation of how the system works, see HERE

Finally, a rating will only be generated if a player has played 4+ rated games.  So for example if a player had a bye in a 4 round tournament and played only 3 rounds, the player will not get a rating until competing in another rated tournament.