Meaning & use
payrolled position
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Meaning
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A job in which the worker is officially listed on a company's payroll and receives regular wages and benefits from that company.
Grammar: Often used in contrast to contract or freelance work: 'a payrolled position rather than a contractor role'.
Patterns
- a payrolled position with a company
- hold a payrolled position
- convert to a payrolled position
After working as a freelancer for years, she finally got a payrolled position with the firm.
The company announced that all temporary workers would be offered payrolled positions next year.
A payrolled position usually comes with health insurance and paid vacation.
Word forms
| plural | payrolled positions |
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Common combinations
- a full-time payrolled position
- He was promoted to a full-time payrolled position after six months.
- offer a payrolled position
- The startup offered her a payrolled position with stock options.
- payrolled employee
- Payrolled employees are entitled to sick leave.
Synonyms and how they differ
- salaried position
- Focuses on being paid a fixed salary, while 'payrolled position' emphasizes being on the company's official payroll.
- staff position
- More general; a staff position is a regular job, but it may not always be payrolled (e.g., unpaid internships).
Word family
- payroll noun
- The list of employees and the total amount of money paid to them.
Commonly confused: payrolled position or parole?
payrolled position vs parole
Payroll relates to wages; parole is the release of a prisoner before the end of their sentence.
Practice
After three months as a contractor, she was offered a ___ with full benefits.
Choose one answer.
The standard phrase is 'payrolled position'. 'Payroll position' is not common; 'payrolled job' is understandable but less formal.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “payrolled position”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.