Where did I go wrong?

[EasyGoing]

Hello, C++ community!

I am new member to the site and new to the C++ language--or any language for that matter! Anyways, I don't have any prior knowledge to programming as well. I picked up two introductory books and have been messing around. I can make the famous "Hello World!" program (Just to give you an idea what level I'm at).
So now I am making another beginner program that will give you the money earned at work after taxes. The program runs without error but I think its giving me the wrong calculations and I cant find out where I made the error. Here is my code. Any help is highly appreciated!

#include <iostream>
#include <cmath>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    // Declare Variables
    float payRate = 15.50;
    int hoursWorked;
    float taxRate = 0.14;
    float deduction = payRate * hoursWorked * taxRate;
    float totalEarnings = payRate * hoursWorked - deduction;
    
    cout << "To find out your net pay of the week" << endl;
    cout << "please enter the amount of" << endl;
    cout << "hours worked during the week below" << endl;
    cin >> hoursWorked; 
    cout << totalEarnings << endl;
    
    
    system("PAUSE");
}

[HiteshVaghani1]

float deduction = payRate * hoursWorked * taxRate;
float totalEarnings = payRate * hoursWorked - deduction;

what is the value of houseWorked....
First you have to take value of houseWorked than you can do some operation on it...like this

    cout << "To find out your net pay of the week" << endl;
    cout << "please enter the amount of" << endl;
    cout << "hours worked during the week below" << endl;
    cin >> hoursWorked; 
    float deduction = payRate * hoursWorked * taxRate;
    float totalEarnings = payRate * hoursWorked - deduction;
    cout << totalEarnings << endl;
    

[EasyGoing]

Okay, so my error here was just misplacing float deduction and float totalEarnings?

[soranz]

Correct.
Also, there's nothing wrong with declaring them with the other variables. Just don't initialize them with anything that includes 'hoursWorked' since 'hoursWorked' is only assigned a value at line 18.