Third highest salary (Nth highest)
Return the third highest distinct salary. Equal salaries count once: if the salaries were 100, 90, 90 and 80, the third highest distinct salary would be 80. Return one row with one column.
Rows can come back in any order. Column names do not matter; the values do.
Sample database: Company: departments, employees and orders
Three tables. departments (id, name, city). employees (id, name, email, dept_id, manager_id, salary, bonus, hire_date): dept_id and manager_id may be NULL, bonus may be NULL, hire_date is text in the form YYYY-MM-DD. orders (id, employee_id, customer, amount, status, order_date): employee_id is the sales rep (an employee id), amount may be NULL, status is DELIVERED, SHIPPED, PENDING or CANCELLED in capitals, and order_date is text in the form YYYY-MM-DD. Foreign keys are not enforced, so an order may point to an employee who does not exist.
| id | name | city |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Engineering | Bengaluru |
| 2 | QA | Pune |
| 3 | Sales | Mumbai |
| 4 | HR | Pune |
| 5 | Support | Chennai |
| id | name | dept_id | manager_id | salary | bonus | hire_date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Asha Rao | asha@shop.in | 1 | NULL | 150000 | 20000 | 2018-03-01 |
| 2 | Vikram Shah | vikram@shop.in | 1 | 1 | 95000 | NULL | 2020-07-15 |
| 3 | Neha Gupta | neha@shop.in | 2 | 1 | 82000 | 5000 | 2021-01-10 |
| 4 | Rohan Mehta | rohan@shop.in | 2 | 3 | 64000 | NULL | 2022-06-01 |
| 5 | Priya Nair | priya@shop.in | 2 | 3 | 64000 | 3000 | 2023-02-20 |
| 6 | Arjun Das | arjun@shop.in | 3 | 1 | 70000 | 15000 | 2019-11-05 |
| 7 | Kavya Iyer | kavya@shop.in | 3 | 6 | 52000 | NULL | 2024-01-08 |
| 8 | Imran Khan | imran@shop.in | 4 | 1 | 58000 | 2000 | 2020-09-30 |
| 9 | Sneha Patil | neha@shop.in | NULL | 1 | 47000 | NULL | 2025-04-14 |
| 10 | Dev Malhotra | dev@shop.in | 1 | 2 | 95000 | 8000 | 2022-12-01 |
| id | employee_id | customer | amount | status | order_date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | 6 | Acme Ltd | 12000 | DELIVERED | 2026-01-05 |
| 102 | 6 | Bharat Traders | 4500 | CANCELLED | 2026-01-09 |
| 103 | 7 | Acme Ltd | 8000 | DELIVERED | 2026-02-11 |
| 104 | 7 | Cosmo Retail | 15000 | SHIPPED | 2026-02-20 |
| 105 | 6 | Delta Foods | 3000 | PENDING | 2026-03-02 |
| 106 | 7 | Bharat Traders | 9500 | DELIVERED | 2026-03-15 |
| 107 | 12 | Echo Stores | 7000 | DELIVERED | 2026-03-18 |
| 108 | 6 | Acme Ltd | NULL | PENDING | 2026-04-01 |
| 109 | 7 | Cosmo Retail | 15000 | SHIPPED | 2026-02-20 |
| 110 | 8 | Fresh Mart | 2500 | DELIVERED | 2026-04-10 |
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