[DianaK]

System.out.println("Employee Overtime: " + eStore.getempOvertime());

[CasiOo]

I think you have confused yourself a bit too much about what your class should contain and how it should handle things.

I have made an example of how I think the Employee class should look like

public class EmployeeStorage {
	private String name;
	private double rate;
	private double hours;
	private double overtimeRate;
	
	public EmployeeStorage( String name, double rate, double overtimeRate, double hours ) {
		this.name = name;
		this.rate = rate;
		this.overtimeRate = overtimeRate;
		this.hours = hours;
	}
	
	public String getName() {
		return name;
	}
	
	public double getRate() {
		return rate;
	}
	
	public void setRate( double rate ) {
		this.rate = rate;
	}
	
	public double getOvertimeRate() {
		return overtimeRate;
	}
	
	public void setOvertimeRate( double overtimeRate ) {
		this.overtimerate = overtimeRate;
	}
	
	public void addHours( double hours ) {
		this.hours += hours;
	}
	
	public double getTotalPay() {
		double totalPay = 0;
		if ( hours > 40 ) { 
			double overtime = 40 - hours;
			totalPay = overtime * overtimeRate + hours * rate;
		}
		else {
			totalPay = hours * rate;
		}
		return totalPay;
	}
}

I'm going to bed now (almost 4am ), hope you find it useful

This post has been edited by CasiOo: 12 June 2011 - 06:36 PM

[DianaK]

LOL You are right

I have confused myself,
Thank you SOOO much for all your help!

I feel like were married, sometimes you confuse me and want to shake your neck, but then when I get it right finally, i want to bake you some cookies.. LOL
Have a good night....

[DianaK]

Well I fixed all my errors and my program runs..... But I have No idea how I messed it up, it keeps looping the name
Can someone please help me make it run through the program.


Main

package Payroll;
/**
 *Modify the Payroll Program so that it uses a class to store and
 *retrieve the employee's name, the hourly rate, and the number of hours worked.
 *Use a constructor to initialize the employee information,
 *and a method within that class to calculate the weekly pay.
 *Be sure that the method considers payment of overtime.
 *Once stop is entered as the employee name, the application should terminate.
 *Make sure the code is readable and well documented.
 * @author Diana

 */

import java.util.Scanner; // program uses Scanner

public class Payroll
{
   // main method begins execution of Java application
   public static void main( String args[] )
   {
     // employee's name
      String name;
      // hourly rate
      double rate;
      // number of hours worked for the week
      double hours;
      // product of rate and hours
      double totalPay = 0;
        //total overtime
      double overtime;
      //variable to control the loop
      boolean newName=true;

       // create Scanner to obtain input from command window
      Scanner input = new Scanner( System.in );


       while(newName)
       {
         // prompt user to input name
         System.out.println( "Enter employee's name or Stop to exit: " );
         //read employee's name from user's input
         name = input.next();

      if (name.equalsIgnoreCase("stop")){

      // prompt user for employee's hourly rate
      System.out.println( "Enter hourly rate :" );
      // read hourly rate from user's input
      rate = input.nextDouble();
         while (rate<0){
          System.out.println("Please enter a possitive number");
         rate=input.nextDouble();
                       }

      // prompt user to enter number of hours worked for the week
      System.out.print( "Enter hours worked for the week: " );
      // read number of weeks from user's input
      hours = input.nextDouble();
       while (hours<0){
          System.out.println("Please enter a possitive number");
         hours=input.nextDouble();
                       }

     //passing to the constructor for storing
      EmployeeStorage eStore = new EmployeeStorage (name, rate, hours, totalPay);
      System.out.println("Employee Name: " + eStore.getEmpName()); //retrieving the value
      System.out.println("Employee Overtime: " + eStore.getTotalPay());

      // displays employee's name
      System.out.printf( "The Employee" , name );

      // displays weekly pay
      System.out.printf( "Total pay is $%.2f\n" , totalPay );
           }//end of else statement
        }//end while loop
   } // end method main
} // end class Payroll

EmployeeStorage

package Payroll;

/**
 *
 * @author Diana
 */
class EmployeeStorage {
    //declare variables
    private String empName;
    private Double empRate;
    private Double empHours;
    private Double empTotalPay;
    private Double empOvertime;

     // constructor
    public EmployeeStorage (String name, Double rate, Double hours, Double totalPay)
    {
        this.empName = name;
        this.empRate = rate;
        this.empHours = hours;
        this.empTotalPay = totalPay;

    }
    /**
     * @return the empName
     */
    public String getEmpName() {
        return empName;
    }

    /**
     * @param empName the empName to set
     */
    public void setEmpName(String empName) {
        this.empName = empName;
    }

    /**
     * @return the empRate
     */
    public Double getEmpRate() {
        return empRate;
    }

    /**
     * @param empRate the empRate to set
     */
    public void setEmpRate(Double empRate) {
        this.empRate = empRate;
    }

    /**
     * @return the empHours
     */
    public Double getEmpHours() {
        return empHours;
    }

    /**
     * @param empHours the empHours to set
     */
    public void setEmpHours(Double empHours) {
        this.empHours = empHours;
    }

    /**
     * @return the empOvertime
     */
     /**
     * @param totalPay the totalPay to set
     */
    public void setempTotalPay(Double empTotalPay) {
        this.empTotalPay = empTotalPay;
    }
    public Double getTotalPay()
    {
        if ( empHours > 40 )
        {

      empOvertime = empHours - 40;
      empTotalPay = (40* empRate) + (empRate * empOvertime * 1.5);
                      // multiply numbers

        }
      else
         {
          empTotalPay = empHours * empRate;
      }
        return empTotalPay;
         }
}//end class EmployeeStorage

[CasiOo]

while(newName)

Somewhere in your while-loop you will have to set newName to false, else the loop will just continue