PAYROLL

[noun] [C] - a list of the people employed by a company showing how much each one earns, or the total amount of money paid to the people employed by a particular companya payroll taxMcDermot Software is growing fast, adding another 100 employees to its payroll over the last year.With debts of $4 million and a monthly payroll of $1.2 million the venture is clearly heading for trouble.They must be the hardest working people on the council's payroll (= employed by them).