"This relation connects an organization to individuals that it hired. It does include people hired as contractors, not just people hired as employees. It does not include elected officials. It does not include organizations that may be hired for some particular purpose. Typically, hiring someone does involve paying them, though that is seldom stated explicitly when the relation is mentioned. A hiring event (the actual initiation of the employment) must be mentioned for this relation to apply; if the text just says that Mary Smith works for IBM, that is not enough to assert a hired relation."