Usage examples of "pay-roll".
I lost a guy yesterday, a wharfie I had on me pay-roll - he kept an eye out what was coming in, gimme tip-offs if some other bastards were bringing in the stuff.
It is a fairly large building and, unlike most suburban branch offices, the whole of the premises were devoted to banking business, for the bank carried very heavy deposits, the Lunar Traction Company, with three thousand people on its pay-roll, the Associated Novelties Corporation, with its enormous turnover, and the Laraphone Company being only three of the L.