payroll

/ˈpeɪ.roʊl/
noun
  1. A list of employees and the amount of money they are to be paid by an employer.
    • The manager updated the payroll to include the new hires.
    • She checked the payroll to make sure everyone's hours were recorded correctly.
    • The company's payroll includes over five hundred workers.
  2. The total amount of money paid by a company to its employees over a period of time.
    • They had to cut costs to reduce the overall payroll.
    • Payroll is the largest expense for most service companies.
    • The small business struggled to meet its monthly payroll during the slow season.
  3. The department or process responsible for calculating and distributing employee wages.
    • She works in payroll, processing timesheets and issuing checks.
    • He called payroll to ask about a mistake in his last paycheck.
    • The payroll department sent out the tax forms to all employees.
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