project-calculator

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CHALLENGE 1: Project Description

Calculator to determine a pension benefit.

The elements for the calculation:

• Average monthly salary
• Years and months of service
• Age at retirement (rounded down to nearest whole years)
• Estimated monthly Social Security benefit
• Number of years of participation in Social Security

Page elements:

• Text input box
• Drop down list
• Button to perform calculation
• Button to reset page and clear user-input elements
• Text labels for each user element
• Results presented in either narrative form or as bullet points

Calculations, logic, decisions:

• Salary x max of 35 years service credit x 0.02 (maximum of 70 percent)
• Salary x maximum of 10 years of service credit years over 35 x 0.01 (maximum of 80 percent)
• Reduce benefit by subtracting primary insurance amount, then reduce benefit by multiplying early retirement factor

CHALLENGE 2: Data Types

Salary

• number
• avgSalary
• initial = 0
• change through user input
• Text input box and results paragraph

Service credit

• number
• servCredit
• initial = 0
• change through user input.
• select drop down boxes for years and months and results paragraph

Birth date

• date
• birthDate
• initial = 0
• change through user input
• text input box

Retirement date

• date
• retDate
• initial = 0
• change through user input
• text input box

Retirement age

• number
• retAge
• retDate - birthDate, rounded down to nearest whole age
• calculated result
• display in document.body

Social Security benefit

• number
• ssaBenefit
• initial = 0
• change through user input
• text input box

Social Security years (similar to Service Credit)

• number
• ssaYears
• initial = 0
• change through user input.
• select drop down boxes for years and months and results paragraph

Early Retirement Factor

• object {[age]: [percentage]}
• erFactor
• predetermined in table
• data does not change; used as a lookup table
• hidden from user

CHALLENGE 3: Pseudocode

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