As Mann points out, however, they are more apt than others to be on a public payroll.

While you worried about your job, the city added 5,000 people to the public payroll last year.

White believed that being on the public payroll obligated him to attend every Senate meeting, no matter the issue.

How soon might he return to the public payroll?

Governors in other states (remember Connecticut) have been known to put personal expenses on the public payroll.

Another study estimated the number of employees on the public payroll who are actually political operatives at 100,000.

We want to keep Congress on the public payroll and off the payroll of special interest groups.

Government need not hire drug users or keep them on the public payroll.

He's been a professional politician his whole life, always on the public payroll.

I reduced my public payroll from '90 to '92 14 percent.