"financial payoff" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to the amount of money or benefit gained from an investment, activity, or decision. Example: The company's new advertising campaign resulted in a significant financial payoff, increasing their sales by 20%.
Tolerance has had a financial payoff, said Barbara Hexecutivelliams, executive director of the coalition.
They can be expensive and time-consuming to organize, without any assurance of a financial payoff.
For IBM, the financial payoff would come if start-ups like Ross generated sales, followed by a revenue-sharing arrangement.
"To be clear, the idea is not that there will be a big financial payoff to a liberal arts degree," Cappelli writes.
Some older homeowners may choose to have tenants as much for the companionship and security as for the financial payoff, Ms. Roberts added.
The company could snare a big financial payoff from what still amounts to a risky bet, one that has already cost Wyeth about $450 million in research funds.
Most importantly, we find that coaches show more favoritism toward their own team when they stand to gain more financially and toward other teams when it generates higher direct financial payoffs for their own university.
For many, there are financial payoffs, too -- improved efficiencies, lower costs and increased sales of energy-saving products.
Today many of the world's computer laboratories are cutting budgets and narrowing their focus to research that promises more immediate product applications and financial payoffs.
Envy may be a sin in some books, but it is a powerful driving force in Silicon Valley, where technical achievements are admired but financial payoffs are the ultimate form of recognition.
N.C.A.A. officials say the new rule is designed to ensure that colleges invest in their football programs, which tend to cost more and take longer to provide financial payoffs than men's basketball and other, smaller sports.
