Salary vs. Payroll
Difference Between Salary and Payroll
Salarynoun
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.
Payrollnoun
A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.
Salaryverb
To pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation.
Payrollnoun
The total sum of money paid to employees.
Salaryadjective
(obsolete) Saline.
Payrollnoun
(accounting) The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this.
Salarynoun
something that remunerates;
wages were paid by checkhe wasted his pay on drinkthey saved a quarter of all their earningsPayrollnoun
(euphemistic) Bribes paid to people
Payrollverb
(transitive) To place on a payroll.
Payrollnoun
a list of employees and their salaries;
the company had a long payrollPayrollnoun
the total amount of money paid in wages;
the company had a large payrollPayrollnoun
the department that determines the amounts of wage or salary due to each employee
