MLS has lower average salaries and smaller payrolls than the other leagues. He closed factories, reduced payrolls and cut lackluster units. As in the previous CBA, the tax revenue is divided among teams with lower payrolls. Transit passes are automatically paid by deductions on payrolls. Decimal hours are frequently used in accounting for payrolls and hourly billing. Monthly payrolls have 12 pay periods per year with a monthly pay date. Semiannually payrolls are paid twice per year and annual payrolls are paid once per year. Direct credit instructions are used for payrolls and other large scale regular payments. Worst hit of all was construction, where payrolls dropped 84 percent. Compared to the other leagues, there is a far greater disparity between MLB payrolls. The bottom fell out in February, when the team missed two payrolls. To quell social unrest, provincial governors padded their payrolls. These units were employed to compute payrolls, travel vouchers, etc. Stations in large cities had to maintain full-time orchestras on their payrolls. Jones calculated unit-strengths in Egypt under Diocletian using papyrus evidence of unit payrolls.