| reduce payroll | 3.55 | The reason we did it was we have to reduce our payroll. | ||
| trim payroll | 3.55 | The team is trying to trim payroll. | ||
| cut payroll | 3.42 | I said we were going to cut payroll. | ||
| meet payroll | 3.42 | I have met a payroll. | ||
| slash payroll | 3.36 | Slash the payroll! | ||
| pare payroll | 1.38 | They stopped paring their payroll. | ||
| increase payroll | 0.79 | That was accomplished without increasing the payroll. | ||
| lower payroll | 0.59 | That meant lowering their payroll while keeping the core of key players. | ||
| make payroll | 0.59 | Then we can make payroll. | ||
| expand payroll | 0.53 | Penfold said Caldera has expanded the payrolls to political support. | ||
| raise payroll | 0.53 | And both focus on raising the payrolls of weak teams. | ||
| keep_down payroll | 0.46 | Other firms are fighting to keep payrolls down. | ||
| cover payroll | 0.33 | They said Harmon covered the payroll a month ago out of his own finances. | ||
| have payroll | 0.33 | He had a payroll that would choke a horse. | ||
| leave payroll | 0.33 | Federal spending declined during the summer because tens of thousands of census takers left the payroll. | ||
| boost payroll | 0.26 | A gain in manufacturing jobs helped boost payrolls during the fourth quarter, the report said. | ||
| do payroll | 0.26 | David does payroll. | ||
| handle payroll | 0.26 | Others hire companies to handle their payroll. | ||
| keep payroll | 0.26 | If clubs kept their payrolls at or below the threshold, that number, in practice, would become a cap. | ||
| lighten payroll | 0.26 | Nationally, early retirement incentives have substantially lightened college payrolls. |