Beginner C++ Employee Payrate Generator

[jfp2716]

I'm taking an intro to c++ class this semester and I'm a little lost on how to write this program project I have. I was wondering if i could get any help on this from you guys. Here's the requirements off his website
Write a program to process weekly employee time cards and compute pay for all employees of a company. Each employee will have three input data items:

* employee name
* hourly wage rate
* number of hours worked during the week

Employees are to be paid time-and-a-half for all hours over 40 per week. A tax amount of 3.625 percent of gross pay will be deducted. The program output should show each employee's:

* name
* gross pay
* net pay

[QWERTYman]

Try writing a class to hold all the data for the employee, with methods to handle overtime and taxes, adding and subtracting gross and net pay, etc.

[jfp2716]

This is kind of what Ive started out with. Thanks for the reply
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
int EmployeeName;
double PayRate, HoursWorked, GrossPay, NetPay;

cout << "Welcome to your employee payslip generator." << endl;
cout << endl;
cout << "Please input your employee's name:";
cin >>EmployeeName;
cout << endl;
cout << "Input hourly wage rate..";
cin >> PayRate;
cout << endl;
cout << "Input hours worked this week..";
cin >> HoursWorked;
cout << endl;




if( HoursWorked > 40);
HoursWorked=HoursWorked*1.5;
GrossPay=HoursWorked*PayRate;
cout <<"Your employees gross pay for this week is" << GrossPay<< endl;
NetPay=GrossPay-(GrossPay* 3.625);
cout <<"And your employees net pay is" << NetPay << endl;

`

else( HoursWorked <=40 , HoursWorked>0);
GrossPay = HoursWorked*PayRate;
cout <<"Your employees gross pay for this week is" << GrossPay <<endl;
NetPay=GrossPay-(GrossPay*3.625);
cout <<"And your employees net pay is" << NetPay << endl;

return 0;

[firedraco]

Ok, I would do what QWERTY suggested and make a class to hold your EmployeeName (btw, why is this an int?).

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/classes.html

[jfp2716]

Yea i messed up on that one. I'm guessing I should have three seperate classes. He explains it on his website
Your program should have four functions namely:

* main()
* inputEmployeeInfo(string &name, float &hours, float & payrate )
* computePay(float &grosspay, float & netpay, float hours, float payrate )
* outputPaySlip(string name, float grosspay, float netpay)

[firedraco]

Hmm...I don't know if he wants those as global functions or if methods are ok. Have you gotten to classes, etc in your class yet?

[jfp2716]

No we havent covered classes yet. Ive fixed a few things since alot of the above was messed up somewhat

[jfp2716]

Here is a little update on my progress

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
int EmployeeName;
double PayRate, HoursWorked, GrossPay, NetPay, OTPay;

cout << "Welcome to your employee payslip generator." << endl;
cout << endl;
cout << "Please input your employee's name:";
cin >>EmployeeName;
cout << endl;
cout << "Input hourly wage rate..";
cin >> PayRate;
cout << endl;
cout << "Input hours worked this week..";
cin >> HoursWorked;
cout << endl;




if( HoursWorked > 40)
{

OTPay=HoursWorked*1.5*PayRate;
GrossPay=OTPay-(HoursWorked*PayRate);
cout <<"Your employees gross pay for this week is" << GrossPay<< endl;
NetPay=GrossPay-(3.625/GrossPay*100);
cout <<"And your employees net pay is" << NetPay << endl;
}

`

else if (HoursWorked <=40)
{

GrossPay = HoursWorked*PayRate;
cout <<"Your employees gross pay for this week is" << GrossPay <<endl;
NetPay=GrossPay-(3.625/GrossPay*100);
cout <<"And your employees net pay is" << NetPay << endl;
}


else
cout <<"Sorry your emloyee gets no pay this week..." <<endl;
return 0;

}

[firedraco]

Well, you just need to move some of your code into functions like he said. It looks alright (although I haven't actually tested the formulas)

[jfp2716]

Ok after cleaning things up a bit heres what i have but I'm also getting an error with it to only one. It says "unknown character 0*60" in line 43
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main()
string EmployeeFirstName, EmployeeLastName, EmployeeWholeName;
double HoursWorked, PayRate, OTPay, GrossPay, NetPay;
{
void inputEmployeeInfo()
{

cout << "Welcome to your employee payslip generator." << endl;
cout << endl;
cout << "Please input your employee's first name:";
cin >>EmployeeFirstName;
cout << "Please input your employee's last name:";
cin >>EmployeeLastName;
EmployeeWholeName= EmployeeFirstName + " " + EmployeeLastName;
cout << endl;
cout << "Input hourly wage rate..";
cin >> PayRate;
cout << endl;
cout << "Input hours worked this week..";
cin >> HoursWorked;
cout << endl;
}


int computePay()
{
if(HoursWorked<=40)
GrossPay=HoursWorked*PayRate;
NetPay=GrossPay-(3.625/GrossPay*100);

else if(Hoursworked>40)
OTPay=HoursWorked*1.5*Payrate;
GrossPay=OTPay-(HoursWorked*PayRate);
NetPay=GrossPay-(3.625/GrossPay*100);
}


int outputPay()
{
cout<< EmployeeWholeName <<"'s gross pay is" <<GrossPay<< "and their net pay is" << NetPay;

}

return 0;
}

[firedraco]

Put your code in [code][/code] tags next time...Umm, anyway, that's not how you should create functions...look at:

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/functions.html

[jfp2716]

After working on this for a while longer Ive scratched that whole thing and decided to do it this way. Theirs somethings I need to work out and I'm not sure I did alot of this right due to the huge amount of errors. Here it is

#include<iostream>
#include<string>
using namespace std;

int main()
{

const double RegularHours=40;
int employee_count, another_employee;
double HoursWorked, PayRate, RegularPay, OTPay, GrossPay, NetPay, TotalGrossPay, TotalNetPay, AverageGrossPay,
AverageNetPay;
string EmployeeName;
employee_count=0;

do
{
cout <<"Welcome to you Employee Payslip Generator:" << endl;
cout <<"Please enter your employee's name:"<<endl;
cin >> EmployeeName;
cout <<"Number of hours worked this week? :";
cin>> HoursWorked;
cout<<endl;
cout<<"Employee's Payrate? :";
cin>>PayRate;


if (HoursWorked>RegularHours)
{
OTPay=HoursWorked*1.5*PayRate;
GrossPay=OTPay-(HoursWorked*PayRate);
NetPay=GrossPay-(GrossPay*.03625);
}
else
{
GrossPay=HoursWorked*PayRate;
NetPay=GrossPay-(GrossPay*.03265);
}

TotalGrossPay += GrossPay;
++employee_count;
TotalNetPay += NetPay;
++employee_count;
AverageGrossPay += TotalGrossPay/++employee_count;
AverageNetPay += TotalNetPay/++employee_count;


cout<< EmployeeName <<"'s gross pay is :" << GrossPay <<endl;
cout<< EmployeeName <<"'s net pay is :"<< NetPay <<endl;
cout<< endl;
cout<<"Do you want to process another employee?" <<endl;
cout<<"Enter 1 for yes and 0 for no:"<<endl;
cin<< another_employee;
}

while(another_employee==1)


cout<<"The total gross pay for your employees is:" <<TotalNetPay;
cout<<endl;
cout<<"The total net pay for your employees is:"<<TotalGrossPay;
cout<<endl;
cout<<"The average gross pay for your employees is:"<<AverageGrossPay;
cout<<endl;
cout<<"The average net pay for your employees is:"<<AverageNetPay;
cout<<endl;



return 0;


}