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From: Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
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Subject: Re: Wages not calculating correctly
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:04:53 -0700
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On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:53:39 -0700 (PDT), Simfonika Island
<simfonika@gmail.com> wrote:

>My program is not calculating the wages correctly. Can somebody please
>tell me why???

     Yes, but you need to figure it out.  I have given a big clue.

[snip]

>double overtime = 1.5;
        ^^^^^^^^
    Bad name.  It is an overtime *rate*.

[snip]

>wages = max_hours * payRate;
         ^^^^^^^^^
     Why are using this variable here?

[snip]

     If you are not indenting your code, you should.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko