Payroll Program

COSC 1320 - C++ Programming
Bob Comer, Professor, CIT/COSC

Assignment 6 - Payroll Program

Be sure to read through chapter 14 before starting this assignment. Your job is to write a payroll program for Armadillo Automotive.

Program input

The program input consists of two files - a master file and a transaction file.

Master file

The master file has one line of input per employee containing:

employee ID number
name (20 characters)
pay rate per hour
number of dependents
type of employee (0 for union, 1 for management)
sex ('M' or 'F')

This file is ordered by ID number. You can assume a maximum of 100 employees.

Transaction file (weekly timesheet information)

The transaction file has one line for each employee who worked containing:

employee id number
number of hours worked for the week

This file may have any number of transactions.

Calculations

Gross Pay - Union members are paid 1.5 times their normal pay rate for any hours worked over 40. Management employees are paid their normal pay rate for all hours worked (they are not paid extra for hours over 40).
Tax - All employees pay a flat 15% income tax.
Insurance - The company pays for insurance for the employee. Employees are required to buy insurance for their dependents at a price of $20 per dependent.
Net Pay is Gross Pay minus Tax minus Insurance.

Program output

The program output will consist of two reports:

Error and Control Report

Prints the transaction file input lines for which there is no matching master file record or the hours worked is invalid (a negative number). These lines should be ignored (no further processing is done for the line) and processing continues with the next transaction.
Prints the total number of transactions that were processed correctly during the run.

Payroll Report

The payroll report should be printed in a tabular (row and column) format with each column clearly labeled. Print one line for each transaction that contains:

employee ID number
name
tax
insurance
gross pay
net pay

The final line of the payroll report should print the total amount of gross pay and total amount of net pay for the week.

Requirements:

Global variables are variables that are declared outside any function. Do not use global variables in your programs. Declare all your variables inside functions
You can assume that the Master file does not contain errors (error checking is done by another program). Error checking for the Transaction file is described in the Error and Control Report.
Use C strings (not the C++ string class) to represent strings in your program.
You should use either a class or a struct to represent the master file information for one employee.
Write the Error and Control Report to one file and the Payroll Report to a second file.
The master file information should be read into an array.
Do not read and store the transaction information in an array. When you store transactions in arrays, you set a limit on the number of transactions your program can process. For this program, you should be able to read and process transactions one at a time.

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