Payroll Management System

The idea behind it.

A focused console application written in C++ that computes employee payslips from first principles: personal details, days worked, hourly rate, overtime rate, and overtime hours.

The program generates a formatted payslip with gross pay and supports looping through multiple employees in a single session — a clean exercise in structured I/O, calculation logic, and procedural design without a GUI framework.

It is intentionally lightweight: ideal for understanding payroll math and C++ fundamentals before moving those rules into larger HR or accounting systems.

What it does

• Employee detail capture (name, ID, days, rates, overtime)
• Gross pay calculation from hours and overtime
• Formatted payslip output
• Multi-employee session loop until user exits
• MIT licensed, easy to compile and extend

Where it fits

• Learning how payroll math maps to code before building web HR tools
• Teaching labs on structured programming and console UX
• Quick offline payslip calculation for small teams or demos
• Foundation logic that can later feed Flask/SQL payroll modules

The challenges

• Keeping input validation robust in a pure console flow
• Presenting a readable payslip without a UI toolkit

What I took away

• Payroll is pure domain logic — perfect for language fundamentals
• Clear prompts and loops make CLI tools feel intentional