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SQL Query for Matching Salaries

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Problem

A healthcare technology maintains salary records from its internal compensation system and an external benchmarking feed. Write a PostgreSQL query to find employers present in both sources with the same annual salary.

Requirements

  1. Match rows using both employer_name and annual_salary.
  2. Return each matching employer and salary only once, even when duplicate source records exist.
  3. Exclude employers that exist in only one table or whose salaries differ.
  4. Order results by salary descending, then employer name ascending.

Schema

employer_salary_records
ColumnTypeDescription
record_idPKINTInternal salary record identifier
employer_nameVARCHAR(120)Employer name
annual_salaryNUMERIC(12,2)Annual salary amount
role_titleVARCHAR(100)Role associated with the salary
salary_benchmarks
ColumnTypeDescription
benchmark_idPKINTBenchmark record identifier
employer_nameVARCHAR(120)Employer name from the benchmark feed
annual_salaryNUMERIC(12,2)Benchmarked annual salary amount
benchmark_sourceVARCHAR(80)External benchmark source
Tablesemployer_salary_recordssalary_benchmarks
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