SQL LeetCode: 181. Employees Earning More Than Their Managers

Pallavi Mirajkar Dantkale
1 min readMar 30, 2021

181. Employees Earning More Than Their Managers

Easy

SQL Schema

The Employee table holds all employees including their managers. Every employee has an Id, and there is also a column for the manager Id.

+----+-------+--------+-----------+
| Id | Name | Salary | ManagerId |
+----+-------+--------+-----------+
| 1 | Joe | 70000 | 3 |
| 2 | Henry | 80000 | 4 |
| 3 | Sam | 60000 | NULL |
| 4 | Max | 90000 | NULL |
+----+-------+--------+-----------+

Given the Employee table, write a SQL query that finds out employees who earn more than their managers. For the above table, Joe is the only employee who earns more than his manager.

+----------+
| Employee |
+----------+
| Joe |
+----------+

Using Self join:

SELECT
e1.Name as Employee
FROM
Employee e1
JOIN Employee e2
on e1.ManagerId = e2.Id and e1.Salary > e2.Salary

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