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title: Costume Contest Winners Show Off Their Spy Wear
description: Payroll professionals tapped into their inner secret agents Thursday evening during the Expo Cocktail Reception and Dinner when they took the stage for the annual Costume Contest during the American Payroll Association’s (APA) 36th Annual Congress.
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 May 18, 2018

# Costume Contest Winners Show Off Their Spy Wear

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Payroll professionals tapped into their inner secret agents Thursday evening during the Expo Cocktail Reception and Dinner when they took the stage for the annual Costume Contest during the American Payroll Association’s (APA) 36th Annual Congress.

Here are a few of the winners:

 

**Absolutely Evil**  
1st Place: Matt Kaufer as "Dr. Evil"

![costumeevil](https://blogs.payroll.org/hs-fs/hubfs/costumeevil.jpg?width=910&name=costumeevil.jpg)

 

**Best Bond**  
1st Place: Frank Lilley

![costumebond](https://blogs.payroll.org/hs-fs/hubfs/costumebond.jpg?width=908&name=costumebond.jpg)

**International Spy**  
1st Place: Joseph Ziska as “Pink Panther”

![costumepinkpanther](https://blogs.payroll.org/hs-fs/hubfs/costumepinkpanther.jpg?width=895&name=costumepinkpanther.jpg)

 

**High Society**  
1st Place (tie): Abbey Moran, CPP, and Lori Brown, CPP

![costumehighsociety1](https://blogs.payroll.org/hs-fs/hubfs/costumehighsociety1.jpg?width=900&name=costumehighsociety1.jpg)

![costumehighsociety2](https://blogs.payroll.org/hs-fs/hubfs/costumehighsociety2.jpg?width=902&name=costumehighsociety2.jpg)

 

 

**And more!**

 

![costumemisc](https://blogs.payroll.org/hs-fs/hubfs/costumemisc.jpg?width=872&name=costumemisc.jpg)

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