Pay Rate Input Validation

# Payroll Program with Input Validation
# Ch 7, Ex 1
# Written by Greg Lamb
# Last modified: 05/04/2015

#Variables
payRate=0
hoursWorked=0
grossPay=0
payRateGood = False
numTries = 0
hoursWorkedGood = False

while(payRateGood==False and numTries <3):
    numTries += 1
    # Get hourly payrate in range $7.50-$18.25
    payRate = float(input("Enter hourly pay rate:  "))
    
    # Validate payRate input               
    if (payRate <7.5 or payRate >18.25):
        print("Incorrect entry  - Please enter a pay rate between $7.50-$18.25")
        if numTries >=3:
            payRate = 12
    else:
        print("The pay rate is: ${:,.2f}".format(payRate))
        payRateGood = True
        
numTries = 0
while(hoursWorkedGood==False and numTries <3):
    numTries += 1
    # Get hours worked in range 0-40 hours
    hoursWorked = float(input("Enter hours worked:  "))
    
    #Validate hourWorked input
    if (hoursWorked <0 or hoursWorked >40):
        print("Incorrect entry - Enter a number of hours worked between 0 -40 hours")
        if numTries>=3:
            hoursWorked = 40

# If entry is out of range, ask user to re-enter the correct number of hours   
    else:
        print("The number of hours worked is: {}".format(hoursWorked))
        hoursWorkedGood = True

# Caluculate gross pay
def calcGrossPay(payRate, hoursWorked):
	return hoursWorked * payRate

#Result
print("Gross Pay is:  ${:,.2f}".format(calcGrossPay(payRate, hoursWorked)))

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