payroll

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

Magazines kept aristocrats on the payroll to facilitate access to jet-set playgrounds like Corfu and Mustique.

The total sum of money paid to employees.

The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this.

Bribes paid to people.

I know that the deal started with the boys in Santiago, because they’ve been on the d’Anconia pay roll for centuries — well, no, ‘pay roll’ is an honorable word, it would be more exact to say that d’Anconia Copper has been paying them protection money for centuries — isn't that what your gangsters call it?

We can spread a rumor this cop was dirty. Look, Tom, we have newspaper people on the payroll, don't we?

To place on a payroll (noun sense 1).

Grantees may elect to payroll the enrollees through their own payroll system if the payroll system is consistent with regulations contained herein.