payroll vs amount

payroll and amount both are nouns.

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

As nouns, amount is a hypernym of payroll; that is, amount is a word with a broader meaning than payroll:

Other hypernyms of payroll include amount of money, sum, sum of money.

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

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