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SQL: Third Largest
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SQL: Third Largest

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

Xccelerated needs a salary benchmark for its active software engineering team. Write a PostgreSQL query to find the third-highest distinct annual salary among active Software Engineers whose department is present.

Requirements

  1. Join employees to departments to include the department name.
  2. Consider only employees with role = 'Software Engineer', employment_status = 'active', and a non-NULL salary.
  3. Rank distinct salary values from highest to lowest using a window function, then return every employee tied at the third-highest salary.
  4. Return employee_id, employee_name, department_name, annual_salary, and the rank, ordered by employee_id.

Schema

employees
ColumnTypeDescription
employee_idPKINTUnique employee identifier
employee_nameVARCHAR(100)Employee full name
roleVARCHAR(100)Employee job role
employment_statusVARCHAR(20)Current employment status
annual_salaryNUMERIC(12,2)Annual salary amount
department_idINTReferenced department identifier
departments
ColumnTypeDescription
department_idPKINTUnique department identifier
department_nameVARCHAR(100)Department name
Tablesemployeesdepartments
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