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payroll

[pay-rohl] / ˈpeɪˌroʊl /




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Frustrated Yankee fans fret that the team is no longer baseball’s biggest spender—the Dodgers, Mets and Phillies spent more in payroll in 2026.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Right now, the payroll tax is only applied to traditional wages.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Right now, the program is funded primarily through payroll taxes.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

The Tampa Bay Rays have been baseball’s greatest innovators for nearly two decades, using cutting-edge data to outsmart the competition despite their microscopic payroll.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

She needed to write two checks, one for cash and the other to move money into the company’s payroll account.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

Three playoff teams — the Tampa Bay Rays, Cleveland Guardians and Chicago White Sox — rank among the six lowest payrolls, according to MLB present-day salary calculations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Investors in Asia followed the positive lead from their colleagues on Wall Street, where all three main indexes spiked in reaction to the highly anticipated non-farm payrolls data.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

The U.S. nonfarm payrolls report at 1230 GMT will be closely monitored for clues on future policy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The household survey includes the self-employed, agricultural workers and others not on company payrolls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

The Earl was a great book-collector, as appears by his payrolls.

From Thomas Hariot, the Mathematician, the Philosopher and the Scholar by Henry Stevens




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