amount vs payroll

amount and payroll both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
amount	Yes	No	Yes	No
payroll	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, payroll is a hyponym of amount; that is, payroll is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than amount:

amount (noun)	payroll (noun)
how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify	the department that determines the amounts of wage or salary due to each employee
the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion	a list of employees and their salaries
a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers	the total amount of money paid in wages
a quantity of money

amount (verb)	payroll (verb)
to measure up to in kind or quality
add up in number or quantity
be tantamount or equivalent to