Total payroll expense was 12.21 percent of sales last year, compared with 9.58 percent in 2007.

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All have been part of teams that saw revenue growth annually outpace payroll expense by at least 12% over the league average since 2002.

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To find out, we valued each free agent based on the degree to which his teams have grown revenues relative to payroll expense during his tenure, going back to 2002.

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It also is true for fleet-based companies as fuel is typically their second largest expense after payroll and benefits.

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Excluding share-based compensation expense and related payroll tax expenses, the non-GAAP effective tax rate would have been approximately 41%.

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In fact, for many, they are second-largest expense, after payroll.

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They would certainly be getting compensated to do it alone with their regular salary plus bonuses they get in addition to the fact that they would be saving the expense on hourly payroll.

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Most of the expense decline was in payroll, which fell 6 percent through attrition.

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Most of the expense decline was due to payroll savings through attrition and a freeze of defined benefit pension plans.

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On the expense side the biggest item is payroll.

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This would spare the Pentagon the expense of hiring new people to do those new jobs, but it would not shrink its payroll.

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