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.
  • Sales keep rolling and payroll run?
    — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Ask what their payroll looks like each month.
    — Mary D. Kane, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Forst didn’t have enough payroll to work with.
    — Evan Drellich, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The deal put the team over its payroll budget.
    — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 5 May 2026
  • Putting them on the payroll for their work could help save on taxes.
    — David Rae, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Huge payrolls, star players, big name free agents.
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026
  • These days, teams’ payrolls are capped and the league’s revenue is shared.
    — Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • Overhead costs like rent, payroll, cost of goods still need to be paid on time.
    — Melissa Houston, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • These were for nonfarm payroll jobs.
    — Charlotte Observer, 11 Feb. 2026
  • How much more payroll can be added in 2026?
    — Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Both were on the city payroll at the time of the federal loans.
    — Wilborn Nobles, ajc, 4 May 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
  • Where can the Astros shed some payroll?
    — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • This will be the first on-time payrolls report since the shutdown.
    — Sean Conlon,sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2026
  • There are 39 people on the payroll there.
    — Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 7 May 2026
  • In each of these seasons, the Dodgers ranked at or near the top in team payroll.
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026
  • The payroll makes the reliance harder to square.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • All this for a team with a $370+ million payroll.
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026
  • So Andrade is leading the charge to get them on payroll.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • The Mets’ payroll ranks among the highest in the major leagues.
    — Juliet Chung, WSJ, 9 May 2022
  • That‘s not to say the Hoosiers didn’t jack up the payroll like everyone else.
    — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas Morning News, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The first is payrolls, which show the economy is still adding jobs, though at a slower clip.
    — Courtenay Brown, Axios, 7 Aug. 2024
  • 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 threat of unemployment spurred many of us to look for new jobs, which helped trim the payroll.
    — Kate Callen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Again, this a team that will have spent nearly a billion dollars on payroll over the last two years.
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2026

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