Dataford
Interview QuestionsInterview GuidesExperiencesMock InterviewsPricing
Get started

Second Largest Salary in SQL

EasySQL · PostgreSQL00:00
Practice interviewer
In session
5 left
00:00

Your question is Second Largest Salary in SQL. Start with the requirements and the one table on the right.

Run and submit as often as you like. When you're ready, talk me through your approach or go straight to the code.

You need to log in / sign up to run or submit.

Problem

Afiniti needs a simple salary audit for employees supporting its AI-powered customer interaction platform. Write a PostgreSQL query to find the second-highest distinct salary in the employee directory.

Requirements

  1. Exclude employees whose salary is NULL.
  2. Return exactly one value: the second-highest distinct salary.

Schema

employees
ColumnTypeDescription
employee_idPKINTUnique employee identifier
employee_nameVARCHAR(100)Employee's name
departmentVARCHAR(50)Employee's department
salaryNUMERIC(10,2)Annual salary
Tablesemployees
Your solutionPostgreSQL
You need to log in / sign up to run or submit.
Run a query to see results