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Top 3 Highest Paid Employees

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Problem

Jio's workforce analytics team needs a simple report showing the three employees with the highest annual salaries. Write a PostgreSQL query using the employees table.

Requirements

  1. Return the employee ID, employee name, and annual salary.
  2. Sort employees from highest to lowest salary and return only the top three. Treat employees with NULL salaries as unranked, and use employee ID as a deterministic tie-breaker.

Schema

employees
ColumnTypeDescription
employee_idPKINTUnique employee identifier
employee_nameVARCHAR(100)Employee's full name
annual_salaryDECIMAL(12,2)Annual salary in Indian rupees
departmentVARCHAR(80)Employee's department
Tablesemployees
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