employ vs payroll

employ

noun
  • The state of being an employee; employment. 

verb
  • To hire (somebody for work or a job). 

  • To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task). 

  • To make busy. 

payroll

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

  • Bribes paid to people. 

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

  • The total sum of money paid to employees. 

verb
  • To place on a payroll. 

How often have the words employ and payroll occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )