How to Use payroll in a Sentence

payroll

noun
  • They cut him from their payroll.
  • Businesses are keeping their payrolls low by embracing new technologies.
  • He's the manager of a baseball team with a $50 million payroll.
  • The Rays' payroll ranks 28th among the 30 major-league teams.
    — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Nor is the fact that the 49ers’ top-heavy payroll may sway them giving in to Aiyuk.
    — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Putting them on the payroll for their work could help save on taxes.
    — David Rae, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Yes, one of the firms involved in it is on Donald Trump’s payroll.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2023
  • With a $209 million payroll and starting pitching depth that’s among the best in the game?
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 July 2022
  • Yet the first two months of this season saw the clubs test the depth provided by those huge payrolls.
    — Scott Miller, New York Times, 3 June 2023
  • The interest-free loan is aimed at keeping the Dodgers' payroll loose and open for more free agents to come to Chavez Ravine.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Still, Forst expects the team to be active in free agency and for the team’s payroll to increase.
    — Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The first is payrolls, which show the economy is still adding jobs, though at a slower clip.
    — Courtenay Brown, Axios, 7 Aug. 2024
  • James Leslie said there are more than 20 on the company’s payroll.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2022
  • Here's how the Red Sox' payroll projection looks at this point.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Visser's on police payroll, but in a way she's being paid not to be a cop.
    — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Most of the grants in the past have been solely focused on payroll and other things related to the business, but not the tech.
    — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Dec. 2022
  • This would have no effect on payroll systems that do not pay big bucks.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
  • Or, one of your current consulting clients might hire you in-house and put you on their payroll.
    — Caroline Ceniza-Levine, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
  • But how many people are on the payrolls of the Mexican cartels?
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The city often struggled to make payroll and then there were the days that the city could not supply water to the residents.
    — Kerria Weaver, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
  • The state divides the payroll jobs numbers into 11 parts.
    — David Lightman, Sacramento Bee, 9 Apr. 2024
  • That’s $45 million for a QB to sit at home, 16 percent of the Browns’ payroll, vanished into thin air.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2022
  • So, a team could acquire that contract in a deal and then rid themselves of $15.4 million in payroll.
    — oregonlive, 25 June 2022
  • The teams rank 27th and 28th among MLB player payrolls, according to Spotrac, but have the second- and third-best records in baseball.
    — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Then the team’s owner, Wayne Huizenga, ordered Dombrowski to rip it all apart and slash payroll ahead of a sale of the team.
    — David Waldstein, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2022
  • New payrolls are expected to kick in this month, which marks the beginning of the fiscal year.
    — Michelle Toh, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The city kept Darby on its payroll for weeks after his guilty verdict.
    — al, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The Heat essentially locked in this payroll with the Kyle Lowry signing.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Musk and the White House did not return requests seeking any evidence that the federal government has nonexistent people on its payroll.
    — Bobby Allyn, NPR, 6 Mar. 2025
  • City officials have avoided direct layoffs or furloughs, but have effectively scaled back city payroll by attrition, putting clamps on many open jobs throughout the city.
    — Jake Goodrick, Sacramento Bee, 20 Feb. 2025

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