What does PAYROLL mean?

Definitions for PAYROLL
ˈpeɪˌroʊlpay·roll

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. payroll, paysheetnoun

    a list of employees and their salaries

    "the company had a long payroll"

  2. payroll, paysheetnoun

    the total amount of money paid in wages

    "the company had a large payroll"

  3. payroll, payroll departmentnoun

    the department that determines the amounts of wage or salary due to each employee

Wiktionary

  1. payrollnoun

    A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.

  2. payrollnoun

    The total sum of money paid to employees.

  3. payrollnoun

    The series of accounting transactions that ensure that employees are paid correctly, and that all taxes etc are properly deducted; the department in a company responsible for it.

ChatGPT

  1. payroll

    Payroll refers to the total sum of all compensation a business must pay to its employees for a particular period of time or on a given date. It can also refer to the process of calculating and distributing wages and taxes. It typically includes salaries, wages, bonuses, benefits, and deductions. Payroll can also refer to the list of a company's employees and the amount of money they are to be paid.

Wikidata

  1. Payroll

    In a company, payroll is the sum of all financial records of salaries for an employee, wages, bonuses and deductions. In accounting, payroll refers to the amount paid to employees for services they provided during a certain period of time. Payroll plays a major role in a company for several reasons. From an accounting perspective, payroll is crucial because payroll and payroll taxes considerably affect the net income of most companies and they are subject to laws and regulations. From an ethics in business viewpoint payroll is a critical department as employees are responsive to payroll errors and irregularities: good employee morale requires payroll to be paid timely and accurately. The primary mission of the payroll department is to ensure that all employees are paid accurately and timely with the correct withholdings and deductions, and to ensure the withholdings and deductions are remitted in a timely manner. This includes salary payments, tax withholdings, and deductions from a paycheck.

Editors Contribution

  1. payroll

    A list of employees and other specific and accurate details to ensure the payment of salary, wages, tax and other accurate requirements in line with unity government legislation.

    Payroll is important for every business.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 11, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of PAYROLL in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of PAYROLL in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of PAYROLL in a Sentence

  1. Sebastien Galy:

    Equity markets are in a state of ambivalence, they should find their footing as the week develops, expectations for the non-farm payroll (data) are relatively subdued given that we are in the process of re-opening the economy. A lack of surprise will comfort the market that tapering is only slowly coming.

  2. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham:

    They don't need $ 1,000, they need a sustainable income -- either through loans from their employers to keep the payroll coming or get on unemployment insurance or something like it so they'll have income, our No. 1 job right now is to provide income to those people who have lost their job because of the virus.

  3. Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones:

    The underground economy is not a victimless crime, by underreporting payroll, paying employees under the table and committing workers' compensation insurance fraud, these employers cheat the system and leave their employees at risk.

  4. Bill Merz:

    In the short term, we really need to see a decent payroll number tomorrow and for earnings season to conclude with no major surprises.

  5. Robert Martin:

    We strongly believe the BLS' treatment of closing establishments is substantially biasing payrolls up, the BLS assumes that for every establishment in their sample that closes, a new establishment opens unobserved. The BLS then increases its estimate of new jobs in line with payroll growth at similar surviving establishments.

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