Two decades later, rapid! is expanding its role, evolving into a platform that connects payroll with the larger ecosystem of digital payments. rapid! offers PayCard, on-demand earned wage access (EWA), and disbursement solutions that now serve over 7,000 businesses. It sits within Green Dot's broader fintech and banking ecosystem and is powered by the company's own proprietary money-movement technology, which supports real-time payments across the US.
The Diamondbacks went into 2025 with an Opening Day payroll of just under $187MM, representing yet another new high for the club that had already bumped its payroll from roughly $116.1MM in 2023 to $163.3MM in 2024.
In a normal situation, paying employees not to work would be considered operating a 'ghost payroll,' although the CTA was just trying to make the best of it.