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
• Case in point, there are extremes on both sides — two teams don't even have payrolls of nine figures.
  — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 15 July 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
• The Stars were then owned by the late Tom Hicks, and a big payroll team.
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 July 2026
• 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