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185\. Department Top Three Salaries
Hard
SQL Schema
Table: `Employee`
+--------------+---------+
| Column Name | Type |
+--------------+---------+
| id | int |
| name | varchar |
| salary | int |
| departmentId | int |
+--------------+---------+
id is the primary key column for this table.
departmentId is a foreign key of the ID from the `Department` table. Each row of this table indicates the ID, name, and salary of an employee. It also contains the ID of their department.
Table: `Department`
+-------------+---------+
| Column Name | Type |
+-------------+---------+
| id | int |
| name | varchar |
+-------------+---------+
id is the primary key column for this table.
Each row of this table indicates the ID of a department and its name.
A company's executives are interested in seeing who earns the most money in each of the company's departments. A **high earner** in a department is an employee who has a salary in the **top three unique** salaries for that department.
Write an SQL query to find the employees who are **high earners** in each of the departments.
Return the result table **in any order**.
The query result format is in the following example.
**Example 1:**
**Input:**
Employee table:
+----+-------+--------+--------------+
| id | name | salary | departmentId |
+----+-------+--------+--------------+
| 1 | Joe | 85000 | 1 |
| 2 | Henry | 80000 | 2 |
| 3 | Sam | 60000 | 2 |
| 4 | Max | 90000 | 1 |
| 5 | Janet | 69000 | 1 |
| 6 | Randy | 85000 | 1 |
| 7 | Will | 70000 | 1 |
+----+-------+--------+--------------+
Department table:
+----+-------+
| id | name |
+----+-------+
| 1 | IT |
| 2 | Sales |
+----+-------+
**Output:**
+------------+----------+--------+
| Department | Employee | Salary |
+------------+----------+--------+
| IT | Max | 90000 |
| IT | Joe | 85000 |
| IT | Randy | 85000 |
| IT | Will | 70000 |
| Sales | Henry | 80000 |
| Sales | Sam | 60000 |
+------------+----------+--------+
**Explanation:**
In the IT department:
- Max earns the highest unique salary
- Both Randy and Joe earn the second-highest unique salary
- Will earns the third-highest unique salary
In the Sales department:
- Henry earns the highest salary
- Sam earns the second-highest salary
- There is no third-highest salary as there are only two employees