185. Department Top Three Salaries
Hard
SQL Schema
The Employee
table holds all employees. Every employee has an Id, and there is also a column for the department Id.
+----+-------+--------+--------------+ | Id | Name | Salary | DepartmentId | +----+-------+--------+--------------+ | 1 | Joe | 85000 | 1 | | 2 | Henry | 80000 | 2 | | 3 | Sam | 60000 | 2 | | 4 | Max | 90000 | 1 | | 5 | Janet | 69000 | 1 | | 6 | Randy | 85000 | 1 | | 7 | Will | 70000 | 1 | +----+-------+--------+--------------+
The Department
table holds all departments of the company.
+----+----------+ | Id | Name | +----+----------+ | 1 | IT | | 2 | Sales | +----+----------+
Write a SQL query to find employees who earn the top three salaries in each of the department. For the above tables, your SQL query should return the following rows (order of rows does not matter).
+------------+----------+--------+ | Department | Employee | Salary | +------------+----------+--------+ | IT | Max | 90000 | | IT | Randy | 85000 | | IT | Joe | 85000 | | IT | Will | 70000 | | Sales | Henry | 80000 | | Sales | Sam | 60000 | +------------+----------+--------+
Explanation:
In IT department, Max earns the highest salary, both Randy and Joe earn the second highest salary, and Will earns the third highest salary. There are only two employees in the Sales department, Henry earns the highest salary while Sam earns the second highest salary.
SELECT
Department.Name AS Department,
e.Name AS Employee,
Salary
FROM
Employee AS e
JOIN Department
ON e.DepartmentId = Department.Id
WHERE
3 > (SELECT
COUNT(DISTINCT Salary)
FROM
Employee
WHERE
Salary > e.Salary
AND DepartmentId = e.DepartmentId)