Salary vs. Payroll

Salary and Payroll Definitions
Salary
Fixed compensation for services, paid to a person on a regular basis.
Payroll
A list of employees receiving wages or salaries, with the amounts due to each.
Salary
A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.
Payroll
The total sum of money to be paid out to employees at a given time.
Salary
To pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation.
Payroll
A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.
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Salary
(obsolete) Saline.
Payroll
The total sum of money paid to employees.
Salary
Saline
Payroll
(accounting) The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this.
Salary
The recompense or consideration paid, or stipulated to be paid, to a person at regular intervals for services; fixed wages, as by the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire.
This is hire and salary, not revenge.
Payroll
(euphemistic) Bribes paid to people.
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Salary
To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to; as, to salary a clerk; to salary a position.
Payroll
(transitive) To place on a payroll.
Salary
Something that remunerates;
Wages were paid by check
He wasted his pay on drink
They saved a quarter of all their earnings
Payroll
A list of employees and their salaries;
The company had a long payroll
Payroll
The total amount of money paid in wages;
The company had a large payroll
Payroll
The department that determines the amounts of wage or salary due to each employee
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