Thank you for your advice and the suggestion to check out the other post! Ok after I have worked on this all day I have studied her way of writing this similar program.
I have rearranged my code using her structure as an example. We are only in chapter 3 of Absolute Java by Savitch so I wasnt familiar with some of her input but structuring is what I am having problems with. I got my code to compile and run through the first time and then when you get to enter the second name and you press enter there is an exception.
Here is my new code:
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The exception is at line 30 hourlyRate input statement im kind of stumped because it went through the loop once but gets an error when it goes through the second time.
I marked line 30 and it is an inputmismatch error code.