Thread: Simple Commission Calculator

I'm struggling to get the incentive part correct. And I have no idea where to start to display the table. Here are the instructions and the code below.

· A salesperson will continue to earn a fixed salary of $50,000.00 per year. The current sales target for every salesperson is $120,000.00 per year.
· The sales incentive will only start when 80% of the sales target is met. The current commission is 7.5% of total sales.
· If a salesperson exceeds the sales target, the commission will increase based on an acceleration factor. The acceleration factor is 1.25.
· The application should ask the user to enter annual sales, and it should display the total annual compensation.
· The application should also display a table of potential total annual compensation that the salesperson could have earned, in $5000 increments above the salesperson’s annual sales, until it reaches 50% above the salesperson’s annual sales.

Sample Table: Assuming a total annual sales of $100,000, the table would look like this:

Total Sales Total Compensation
100,000 <Program Calculated Value>
105,000 <Program Calculated Value>
<etc>

Here's what I have so far.

package commissioncalculator;
 
import java.text.DecimalFormat;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
 
 
/**
 * @author Marci
 */
public class CommissionCalculator {
 
    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
       String input; //Input of user
       double salary; //This is the annual sales value
       double rate; //This is the commission rate
       double commission; //This is the amount of commision made
       double pay; //Salesperson's pay
       double sales; //annual sales
       double incentive; //sales incentive
 
       DecimalFormat dollar = new DecimalFormat("#,##0.00");
       DecimalFormat percent = new DecimalFormat("##0.0%");
       input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the annual salary.");
       salary = Double.parseDouble(input);
       input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter current commission rate.");
       rate = Double.parseDouble (input);
       input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the current sales target.");
       sales = Double.parseDouble (input);
 
       commission = rate * salary;
       pay = commission + salary;
       JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Commission rate is " +
        percent.format(rate) + ". The amount of pay is $" + dollar.format(pay));
 
        public incentive() {
          if (sales>=(.80 * sales) && sales<=120,000)
            incentive = (.75 * sales);
          else if (sales>120,000)
            incentive = (1.25 * .75 * sales);
    }
    }
 
       System.exit(0);
}

I've altered it a little bit. I think I'm getting closer.

package commissioncalculator;
 
import java.text.DecimalFormat;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
 
 
/**
 * @author Marci
 */
public class CommissionCalculator {
 
    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
       String input; //Input of user
       double salary; //This is the annual sales value
       double rate; //This is the commission rate
       double commission; //This is the amount of commision made
       double pay; //Salesperson's pay
 
       DecimalFormat dollar = new DecimalFormat("#,##0.00");
       DecimalFormat percent = new DecimalFormat("##0.0%");
       input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the annual salary.");
       salary = Double.parseDouble(input);
       input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter current commission rate.");
       rate = Double.parseDouble (input);
 
 
       commission = rate * salary;
       pay = commission + salary;
       JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Commission rate is " +
        percent.format(rate) + ". The amount of pay is $" + dollar.format(pay));
    }
    public static void incentive(String[] args) {
       String input; //input of user
       double sales; //annual sales
       double incentive; //sales incentive
 
       DecimalFormat dollar = new DecimalFormat("#,##0.00");
       DecimalFormat percent = new DecimalFormat("##0.0%");
       input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the current sales target.");
       sales = Double.parseDouble (input);
 
          if (sales>=(.80 * sales) && sales<=120,000)
            incentive = (.75 * sales);
          else if (sales >120,000)
            incentive = (1.25 * .75 * sales);
    }  
}
 System.exit(0);

This part of it has the error so far:

if (sales>=(.80 * sales) && sales<=120,000) Error: ')'expected
incentive = (.75 * sales);
else if (sales >120,000) Error: ''Else' without 'If' Error: cannot find symbol symbol: class sales location: class CommissionCalculator <identifier> expected
incentive = (1.25 * .75 * sales); Error: <identifier> expected

I see where I made that mistake. I can't get the table to come through correctly.

package commissioncalculator;
 
import java.text.DecimalFormat;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
 
 
/**
 * @author Marci
 */
public class CommissionCalculator {
 
    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
       String input; //Input of user
       double salary; //This is the annual sales value
       double rate; //This is the commission rate
       double commission; //This is the amount of commision made
       double pay; //Salesperson's pay
       double sales; //annual sales
       double incentive = 0; //sales incentive
 
       DecimalFormat dollar = new DecimalFormat("#,##0.00");
       DecimalFormat percent = new DecimalFormat("##0.0%");
       input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the annual salary.");
       salary = Double.parseDouble(input);
       input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter current commission rate.");
       rate = Double.parseDouble (input);
       input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the current sales target.");
       sales = Double.parseDouble (input);
 
       commission = rate * salary;
       pay = commission + salary;
       JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Commission rate is " +
        percent.format(rate) + ". The amount of pay is $" + dollar.format(pay));
 
          if (sales>=(.80 * sales) && sales<=120000)
            incentive = (.75 * sales);
          else if (sales >120000)
            incentive = (1.25 * .75 * sales);
 
          JOptionPane.showMessageDialog (null,
            "Total Sales"    +    "Total Compensation"     +
             dollar.format(sales)  + (dollar.format(sales) + dollar.format(incentive) )  );
 
          System.exit(0);
    }   
 
}

The first message comes through, but the second is "Total SalesTotal Compensation 100,000.00100,000.0075,000.00"

I want it to look like this:

Total Sales Total Compensation
100,000 75,000
105,000 78,750

The table needs to increase by 5,000 until it reaches 50% above the salary. And the compensation takes into consideration the incentive.

Something like this:

          JOptionPane.showMessageDialog (null,
          ("n")  "Total Sales"    +    "Total Compensation" + ("/n")
          ("n") ( dollar.format(sales)  + (dollar.format(sales) + dollar.format(incentive) )  ) + ("/n")
          ("n") ( (dollar.format(sales) + 5000) + (dollar.format(sales) + dollar.format(incentive) )))("/n");

It still says ")" expected.

Ok, I think I got that solved, but now it doesn't like the "null"

  JOptionPane.showMessageDialog (null,
          "n" + "Total Sales"    +    "Total Compensation" + "/n" +
          "n" + ( dollar.format(sales)  + (dollar.format(sales) + dollar.format(incentive) )  ) + "/n" +
          "n" + ( (dollar.format(sales) + 5000) + (dollar.format(sales) + dollar.format(incentive) ))) + "/n";

What other choices do I have?

'void' type not allowed here
not a statement

When I run it, I get: run:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Uncompilable source code - not a statement
at commissioncalculator.CommissionCalculator.main(Com missionCalculator.java:43)
Java Result: 1
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 14 seconds)

Here's the screenshot of where the error is. Doc2.pdf

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The compiler option is grayed out. Here is the screenshot in picture format.

I'm not sure.
Unfortunately, it's a self paced class, so they make us jump right into the IDE.

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Compiling 4 source files to C:\Users\Marci\Desktop\School\PRG 420\CommissionCalculator\CommissionCalculator\buil d\classes
C:\Users\Marci\Desktop\School\PRG 420\CommissionCalculator\CommissionCalculator\src\ commissioncalculator\CommissionCalculator.java:46: not a statement
"n" + ( (dollar.format(sales) + 5000) + (dollar.format(sales) + dollar.format(incentive) ))) + "/n";
1 error
C:\Users\Marci\Desktop\School\PRG 420\CommissionCalculator\CommissionCalculator\nbpr oject\build-impl.xml:915: The following error occurred while executing this line:
C:\Users\Marci\Desktop\School\PRG 420\CommissionCalculator\CommissionCalculator\nbpr oject\build-impl.xml:268: Compile failed; see the compiler error output for details.
BUILD FAILED (total time: 2 seconds)