Payroll

A Java console application that simulates a simple payroll management system.
This program allows you to create, search, and manage employees, calculate paychecks, and display payroll reports using sorting and searching algorithms implemented manually (Quick Sort, Selection Sort, Sequential Search and Binary Search).

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Features

• Create employees (hourly or salaried)
• Input validation for all user entries
• Search for employees by last name or ID number
• Calculate paychecks for user-entried hours (hourly workers)
• Sort employees alphabetically or by paycheck amount
• Simple text-based menu system
• Fully object-oriented design using inheritance and polymorphism

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Examples

Main Menu

PAYROLL SYSTEM

===== MENU =====

1) Create an employee
2) Search for an employee by last name
3) Display an employee, by employee number
4) Run Payroll
5) Quit

Creating Employee

===== CREATE AN EMPLOYEE =====

Enter employee's first name:
(Enter 'Q' to return to main menu)
>John

Enter employee's last name:
(Enter 'Q' to return to main menu)
>Smith

Select employee type:
1) Salaried
2) Hourly
>1

Please enter yearly salary:
$60000

===== SUCCESSFULLY CREATED EMPLOYEE =====

Running Payroll

================ PAYROLL ================

Smith, John                     $2,307.69
Doe, Jane                       $1,100.00
Brown, Clara                      $950.50

============ END OF PAYROLL =============

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Author

Vladislav Lamakin
lamakinvladislav@gmail.com
https://github.com/3dimir