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payroll

payroll

56 2.8
The total amount of money a company pays its employees
  • noun
  • /ˈpeɪˌroʊl/
translation icon : gasto de personal
  • The plant employs 1,100 to 1,400 people and has an annual payroll of around $30 million (Campbell 1997).
  • payroll tax
  • payroll taxes
  • payroll deductions

And it's based on how much payroll you essentially have had over the past year.

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Examples

  • Southeastern employed 46,766 workers during the war, resulting in a total payroll of $112 million.

    Academic text (2009)
  • So rich teams, as I mentioned, have three to four times the payroll of poor teams.

  • Listen, if you wanna cut payroll just lay the guys off.

  • And it's based on how much payroll you essentially have had over the past year.

  • At present time, we have a payroll of 150.

  • Fifty million dollars in additional payroll.

  • Jim, I need to cover payroll for a month and that's it.

  • The company can't afford to have dead weight like him on the payroll.

  • Lehman's failure caused a collapse in the commercial paper market, which many companies depend on to pay for expenses such as payroll.

  • The company announced that its payroll would increase to accommodate new employees next month.

Idioms

Employed and receiving regular pay from a company

Compounds

2 2.7

A written payment that an employer gives an employee for work

The part of a company that calculates and gives employees their pay

How Detailed

payroll
79 3.2
paysheet
  • Specialized
5.7
payroll
56 2.8

Surface Forms

payroll singular
payrolls plural

Morphology

payroll = pay + roll (semi-transparent) = pay + roll

Derived from 'pay' + 'roll' but here referring to the total sum paid; the shift from 'a list' to 'the total amount' is a common metonymic extension that may not be explicitly inferable from components.

Etymology

Payroll is built from pay ('to give money') and roll ('a list'). That's why payroll can also mean the total money a company pays to its staff — it is the sum you get when you add up the whole payment list.