Example sentences for: payrolls

How can you use “payrolls” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls.

  • 7. "Some analysts are concerned that Friday's employment report will bring bad news , because school years are starting earlier in much of the country, bringing teachers back onto payrolls, and the Labor Department has apparently not made the necessary seasonal adjustment yet.

  • The union's local bosses were no better: The "barons" padded their payrolls with family members, paid themselves enormous salaries (as much as $500,000 a year), took bribes from employers in exchange for sweetheart contracts, siphoned pension funds into mob-run operations, and generally screwed their rank and file.

  • It also slashed payrolls, cutting the white-collar work force in half and the blue-collar work force by almost a quarter.

  • Today's tack: Well, even if many people there are getting off welfare and on payrolls, their lives aren't "truly transformed."


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