Noun
One who pays; one who compensates, rewards, or requites; specifically, an officer or agent of a government, a corporation, or an employer, whose duty it is to pay salaries, wages, etc., and keep account of the same.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAnd for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you. Edwin Lefèvre
A good paymaster never wants workmen. English Proverb
A good paymaster does not hesitate to give good security. Italian Proverb
From a bad paymaster take straw--i.e. any trifle. Italian Proverb
After college, he went on to become an acting assistant paymaster for the United States Navy from April 1864 to November 1865 and was admitted to the bar in 1865. Source: Internet
Despite opposition from fiscal hardliners such as Austria and the Netherlaands, observers believe that the EU’s paymaster Berlin will ram through an accord. Source: Internet