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#1

Hi,

i’m currently at the last task 17 on the project workAround. My second file ‘workAround’ throws an error and my ‘employee’ file seems to be fine. The error message is included here in the text file.
Thank you in advance!

let Employee = {
salary: 100000
};

export let payGrades = {
entryLevel: { taxMultiplier: .05, benefits: [‘health’], minSalary: 10000, maxSalary: 49999 },
midLevel: { taxMultiplier: .1, benefits: [‘health’, ‘housing’], minSalary: 50000, maxSalary: 99999 },
seniorLevel: { taxMultiplier: .2, benefits: [‘health’, ‘housing’, ‘wellness’, ‘gym’], minSalary: 100000, maxSalary: 200000 }
};

export function getCadre() {
if (Employee.salary >= payGrades.entryLevel.minSalary && Employee.salary <= payGrades.entryLevel.maxSalary) {
return ‘entryLevel’;
} else if (Employee.salary >= payGrades.midLevel.minSalary && Employee.salary <= payGrades.midLevel.maxSalary) {
return ‘midLevel’;
} else return ‘seniorLevel’;
}

export function calculateTax() {
return payGrades[Employee.getCadre()].taxMultiplier * Employee.salary;
}

export function getBenefits() {
return payGrades[Employee.getCadre()].benefits.join(’, ');
}

export function calculateBonus() {
return .02 * Employee.salary;
}

export function reimbursementEligibility() {
let reimbursementCosts = { health: 5000, housing: 8000, wellness: 6000, gym: 12000 };
let totalBenefitsValue = 0;
let employeeBenefits = payGrades[Employee.getCadre()].benefits;
for (let i = 0; i < employeeBenefits.length; i++) {
totalBenefitsValue += reimbursementCosts[employeeBenefits[i]];
}
return totalBenefitsValue;
}

export default Employee;

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import { getCadre, calculateTax, getBenefits, calculateBonus, reimbursementEligibility } from ‘./employee’;

import {Employee} from ‘./employee’;

function getEmployeeInformation(salary) {
Employee.salary = salary;
console.log('Cadre: ’ + getCadre());
console.log('Tax: ’ + calculateTax());
console.log('Benefits: ’ + getBenefits());
console.log('Bonus: ’ + calculateBonus());
console.log('Reimbursement Eligibility: ’ + reimbursementEligibility() + ‘\n’);
}

getEmployeeInformation(10000);
getEmployeeInformation(50000);
getEmployeeInformation(100000);

/home/ccuser/workspace/intermediate-javascript_modules-workAround/workAround.js:6
_employee.Employee.salary = salary;
^

TypeError: Cannot set property ‘salary’ of undefined
at getEmployeeInformation (workAround.js:6:3)
at Object. (workAround.js:14:1)
at Module._compile (module.js:571:32)
at loader (/home/ccuser/node_modules/babel-register/lib/node.js:158:5)
at Object.require.extensions.(anonymous function) [as .js] (/home/ccuser/node_modules/babel-register/lib/node.js:168:7)
at Module.load (module.js:488:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:447:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:439:3)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:605:10)
at /home/ccuser/node_modules/babel-cli/lib/_babel-node.js:171:48

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#2

Obviously somewhere in your file workAround.js you’re trying to assign the variable ‘salary’ to an object _employee which cannot be accessed or (more probable) has never been declared.

#3

okay and how do i declare it?, i thought its already declared on the ‘employee’ file.

#4

You declared ‘Employee’ there.

#5

okay and what do i ve to do that the error disappears/works?

#6

Find the line in that mentioned file, check what you expected the function to do when you wrote it and assign the value to an existing object if (re)assigning a value was what you intended.

#7

Couldn’t solve it, but thanks for the help. :grin: