Highest Salary Department Employee IDs | Dataford Interview Questions

Snapmint’s People Analytics team wants to identify all employees working in the department of the company’s highest-paid employee. Write a PostgreSQL query that returns the relevant employee and department details.

Requirements

Identify the employee department associated with the maximum non-NULL salary across the employees table.
Return every employee in that department, including the highest-paid employee.
Include the employee ID, employee name, job title, department name, and salary.
Sort the results by salary descending, with employee ID ascending as a tie-breaker.

Schema

employees

Column	Type	Description
employee_idPK	INT	Unique employee identifier
employee_name	VARCHAR(100)	Employee’s full name
department_id	INT	References departments.department_id
job_title	VARCHAR(100)	Employee’s job title
salary	NUMERIC(12,2)	Annual employee salary

departments

Column	Type	Description
department_idPK	INT	Unique department identifier
department_name	VARCHAR(100)	Department name

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