The total annual payroll of the region's technology industries, when taken in aggregate, exceeds $10.8 billion.

The total payroll for the Ministry of Interior exceeds 300,000, but many of these are not on duty at any given time.

Its payroll exceeds 6,000, with mostly well-educated personnel, 75 percent of whom are foreign.

Teams whose payrolls exceed that level will pay a 17.5 percent tax on the portion above the threshold.

In his memo to players, Fehr pointed out that the owners' tax proposal would affect seven teams, whose payrolls exceed $102 million.

The company grew and by 1913 the company's payroll exceeded $110,000 ($2,420,000 in 2010 dollars) for each pay period.

Bettman's last tax proposal called for a penalty of up to 25 percent against teams whose payrolls exceed a predetermined trigger point.

Big-spending teams would be taxed 35 percent next year on the amount by which their payroll exceeds $51 million.

That money would be distributed to teams whose payrolls do not exceed the threshold.

The league reduced its previous position on adjustments to the cap if the collective payroll exceeds the players' percentage of the league's basketball related income.