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Payroll system class diagram template

Models employees, salaried and hourly pay types, timesheets, payslips, deductions and pay runs for a payroll system; used by HR-tech developers and in OO design courses. This class diagram has 7 classes and 6 relationships. It imports as editable UML class boxes with inheritance, composition and association arrows.

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Classes in this class diagram

  • Employee — 5 members
  • SalariedEmployee — 2 members
  • HourlyEmployee — 2 members
  • Timesheet — 3 members
  • PayRun — 3 members
  • Payslip — 3 members
  • Deduction — 2 members

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Mermaid source

The whole template is the text below. Paste it into FlowDiagram, keep it in Git next to the code it describes, or hand it to an AI assistant to extend.

classDiagram
  class Employee {
    <<abstract>>
    +String employeeId
    +String name
    +String taxCode
    +calculatePay() Decimal
  }
  class SalariedEmployee {
    +Decimal annualSalary
    +calculatePay() Decimal
  }
  class HourlyEmployee {
    +Decimal hourlyRate
    +calculatePay() Decimal
  }
  class Timesheet {
    +Date weekStart
    +float hours
    +approve() void
  }
  class PayRun {
    +Date periodEnd
    +String status
    +execute() void
  }
  class Payslip {
    +Decimal gross
    +Decimal net
    +Date payDate
  }
  class Deduction {
    +String kind
    +Decimal amount
  }
  Employee <|-- SalariedEmployee
  Employee <|-- HourlyEmployee
  HourlyEmployee "1" --> "*" Timesheet : submits
  PayRun "1" *-- "*" Payslip : produces
  Payslip "*" --> "1" Employee : for
  Payslip "1" *-- "*" Deduction : itemises

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