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SQL for Ranked Retrieval
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SQL for Ranked Retrieval

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

HashedIn by Deloitte's workforce reporting needs to identify employees earning the second-highest salary among currently active employees. Write a PostgreSQL query that returns employee details and their department information.

Requirements

  1. Consider only employees whose employment_status is Active and whose salary is not NULL.
  2. Return every employee tied at the second-highest distinct salary.
  3. Include employees without a department assignment, showing NULL for the department name.
  4. Sort the output by employee_id in ascending order.

Schema

employees
ColumnTypeDescription
employee_idPKINTUnique employee identifier
employee_nameVARCHAR(100)Employee's full name
department_idINTAssigned department identifier
salaryNUMERIC(10,2)Annual employee salary
employment_statusVARCHAR(20)Current employment status
departments
ColumnTypeDescription
department_idPKINTUnique department identifier
department_nameVARCHAR(100)Department name
Tablesemployeesdepartments
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