I'm trying to write a Java application that contains a method that calculates and displays the weekly salary for an employee who earns $25 an hour, works 40 regular hours and 13 overtime hours, and earns time and one-half(wage * 1.5) for overtime hours worked. I need to create a separate method to do the calculation and return the result to the main() method to be displayed. Here's what I have so far (my compiler returns an error of ';' expected on line 6??? Please help:

import javax.swing.*;
public class Salary

{
public static void main(String[] args)

double hourlyRate = 25.0;
double regularHours = 40.0;
double overtimeHours = 13.0;

public void displayWeeklySalary()
{
weeklySalary = JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,
"The employee's weekly salary for " + regularHours +
"regular hours and " + overtimeHours +
"\novertime hours at " + hourlyRate + "per hour is: $"
+ calcSalary(hourlyRate, regularHours, overtimeHours));

}

public static double calcSalary(double regularHours, double overtimeHours, double hourlyRate)
{
return (regularHours * hourlyRate) + (overtimeHours * (1.5 * hourlyRate));

}

}

Your code needs a little re-ordering. For example your class variables should be outside any methods. Also, displayWeeklySalary is an instance method, so acts on an instance of your class, so you can't just call it from the main method without instantiating some kind of salary object.

So either like this:


Or like this: