How can I loop salary amount against each employees? [duplicate]

Question

I want my python to print the name of employees one by one (in a loop) and let me add the salary amount against each employee and in the last create a dictionary (key-value) for me, the key is employee name and value is amount and I also want to print out the total amount of salary means the sum of all the salaries. How can I do that That is what I did so far:

employees = ["abc", "def", "ghi", "jkl", "mno", "pqr"]
n=0
amonut= 0
try:
    for employee in employees:
        employee = employees[n]
        amount= int(input(amount))
        total = sum(amount)
        n=n+1
        print(total)
except:
    print("You can only type integer for amount")

I have no idea how to create a dictionary in the last

Answer 1

I mean... something like this?

employee_names = ["abc", "def", "ghi", "jkl", "mno", "pqr"]
employee_salaries = {}
for employee in employee_names:
    while True:  # Input validation loop
        try:
            employee_salaries[employee] = int(input(f"Enter {employee}'s salary: "))
            break
        except ValueError:
            print("Invalid input")
print(employee_salaries)
total = sum(employee_salaries.values())
print(total)

Answer 2

You don't need the n variable here. You can create a dictionary and add employee and amount to that

employees = ["abc", "def", "ghi", "jkl", "mno", "pqr"]

employees_dictionary = dict()
total = 0
amount = 0

try:
    for employee in employees:
        amount= int(input(amount))
        employees_dictionary[employee] = amount
        total += amount
except:
    print("You can only type integer for amount")
    
print(employees_dictionary)
print(total)