so lost

[Rbilbro]

I am extremelly new to C++ and I am lost. I have to write a code to take the taxes out of a base pay. Sounds easy but I am doing something so wrong that the output just bypasses everything but the employees name. Can someone point me in the right direction?

[code]
#include <iostream>
#include <math.h>
#include <iomanip>
using namespace std;

const double Federal_Income_Tax = .15;
const double State_Tax = .035;
const double Social_Security_Medicare_Tax = .085;
const double Health_Insurance = 75;

int main()

{
int Employee;
int BasePay;

cout << "Enter the employee's name : ";
cin >> Employee;
cout << endl;

cout << "Enter the base pay : ";
cin >> BasePay;
cout << endl;

int Federal = 0;
int State = 0;
int Social = 0;
int Health;
int Net;

Federal = (double)BasePay*Federal_Income_Tax;
cout << "Federal Tax: ............$" << Federal << endl;

State = (double)BasePay*State_Tax;
cout << "State Tax: ..............$" << State << endl;

Social = (double)BasePay*Social_Security_Medicare_Tax;
cout << "Social Sec / Medicare; ..$" << Social << endl;

Health = Health_Insurance;
cout << "Health Insurance: .......$" << Health << endl;


Net = (double)BasePay-Federal-State-Social-Health;
cout << "Net Pay .................$" << Net << endl;



return 0;

}

[Jacobhaha]

What do you want your program to do?

[rich1]

Why do you want to store Employee's name as int?

[Jacobhaha]

If the first input is wrong, the rest of the input in your program will fail.

[Rbilbro]

I need it to do the following:

Ask for Employee name
Ask for Base Pay
Calculate Federal, State, Social tax from base pay
Calculate Net pay from taxes

I can only get it to ask for the employee name

[Jacobhaha]

You can do it like this:

#include <iostream>
#include <math.h>
#include <iomanip>
using namespace std;

const double Federal_Income_Tax = .15;
const double State_Tax = .035;
const double Social_Security_Medicare_Tax = .085;
const double Health_Insurance = 75;

int main()

{
char Employee[256];
int BasePay;

cout << "Enter the employee's name : ";
cin.get(Employee, 256);
cout << endl;

cout << "Enter the base pay : ";
cin >> BasePay;
cout << endl;

int Federal = 0;
int State = 0;
int Social = 0;
int Health;
int Net;

Federal = (double)BasePay*Federal_Income_Tax;
cout << "Federal Tax: ............$" << Federal << endl;

State = (double)BasePay*State_Tax;
cout << "State Tax: ..............$" << State << endl;

Social = (double)BasePay*Social_Security_Medicare_Tax;
cout << "Social Sec / Medicare; ..$" << Social << endl;

Health = Health_Insurance;
cout << "Health Insurance: .......$" << Health << endl;


Net = (double)BasePay-Federal-State-Social-Health;
cout << "Net Pay .................$" << Net << endl;



return 0;

}

[Rbilbro]

Thought I had to, I have no knowledge of this stuff at all. I am taking the class online and have been reading the text book and sites here on the web and watching youtube videos but I can not grasp this

[Jacobhaha]

char Employee[256] - Is an array of type char that can hold up to 256 characters.

And for the input read this: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/istream/istream/get/

and if it helps, i have also taught my self the things i know about C++ today.

[Rbilbro]

Thank You