payroll
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“To violate the payroll system they have, it’s a serious offense. The owners are the ones that have pushed for these cost controls and they have to live up to them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Officials warn in the documents that the center "could be unable to make payroll or pay routine maintenance contracts" within weeks, the Post reported.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
“Last week’s payroll numbers were stronger than expected, confirming markets’ hawkish bias for the upcoming Fed meeting,” ING senior rates strategists Benjamin Schroeder and Michiel Tukker say in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The giant payroll processor ADP, for instance, said that in August, private-sector businesses added the fewest new jobs in seven months: just 38,000.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Rarely had I worked so hard at anything, and yet no matter how incompetent I pretended to be, Shelley stubbornly kept me on the payroll.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
While the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.9%, the number of vacancies and employees on payrolls fell in recent months.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Gold futures fell as U.S. payrolls increased well above expectations in August, pushing up short-term Treasury yields and raising expectations of a possible September Fed hike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The comments come as investors prepare for the release of US non-farm payrolls figures later Friday, and the consumer price index next week -- which are seen as crucial to what the Fed announces.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
However, a hotter-than-expected nonfarm payrolls report later Friday could revive expectations for higher rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Many of these roads had a greater income than the States they served; their payrolls were much larger; their head officials received higher salaries than governors and presidents.
From The Railroad Builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states by John Moody
Vocabulary lists containing payroll
This Week in Words: Current Events Vocab for October 22–October 28, 2022
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Government and the Economy, Sections 3–5
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Century 21 Accounting, 9e, Chapters 11-14
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