The phrase "a large payroll" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the total amount of money that a company pays to its employees, typically on a regular basis.
Example: "The company has a large payroll, which reflects its commitment to hiring top talent in the industry."
Alternatives: "a substantial payroll" or "a significant payroll".
It would start with powerful stimulus — a large payroll tax holiday and a yearlong retroactive extension of jobless benefits that expired on Dec. 1.
Phillips has been under siege from fans and the media for his handling of a team with a large payroll that has won only 19 of 45 games this season.
If the plan was something resembling the Jobs Act that the president eventually proposed in September 2011 — which is to say, a plan built around a large payroll tax cut — and the president went out and flogged it publicly for a few months, the way he did with the Jobs Act last fall, I think he would have gotten most of what he wanted.
Behind this group of scorers, once again the Knicks had a large payroll and few wins.
The 2010 White House budget proposal included a large payroll tax swap: using about $500 billion in cap-and-trade revenues over 10 years to make MWP permanent (Blue Dog Democrats nixed that in favor of pay-as-you-go requirements, and now MWP is unlikely to be extended for 2011).
The Red Sox also happen to have a large payroll.
The Boston Red Sox went through their own collapse last September, with a larger payroll in a market more given to hysteria.
He employs eighty-three secretories to handle this mail — a larger payroll, you must admit, than most young shepherds command.
The Social Security bill could be brought into balance by raising more money for it through a larger payroll tax and reducing benefits: for example, by making people retire later.
Howe, the Athletics' manager the past seven years after five seasons as the manager for the Houston Astros, agreed on a four-year, $9.4 million contract and inherits a larger payroll than he ever had in Oakland.
In that year, more than 23,000 of the 125,000-plus Nokia staff worldwide were employed in Finland; but last year, Elop closed the last factory in the country and sacked 3,700 of them as part of a larger payroll purge of 10,000 workers.
