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payroll

[pay-rohl] / ˈpeɪˌroʊl /




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Omar shares her Washington home with her husband, Tim Mynett, a former political consultant who once was on her campaign’s payroll.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

The American League has thrown up an even more extreme case in the Tampa Bay Rays, who have the 27th payroll in the majors and are making small ball cool again.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

The payroll-tax rate has been increased before: When the first payroll taxes were collected for Social Security in 1937, the rate was 2%, evenly split between employee and employer.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

That means only about 83% of all earnings covered by the program are subject to the payroll tax, compared with 90% in 1983, when the last major reforms to Social Security were passed.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Every large household was said to have a servant on double payroll.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Markets will be eyeing the key U.S. nonfarm payrolls report at 1230 GMT for clues on whether a U.S. rate rise later this month remains possible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

These men have become the masters of the Nation; on their payrolls are to be found three-fourths of all the working inhabitants of the land, men, women, and children.

From The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin by Francis A. Adams




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