181. Employees Earning More Than Their Managers

Description

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

Constraints

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Examples

Example 1

Input:

{"headers": {"Employee": ["Id", "Name", "Salary", "ManagerId"]}, "rows": {"Employee": [[1, "Joe", 70000, 3], [2, "Henry", 80000, 4], [3, "Sam", 60000, null], [4, "Max", 90000, null]]}}

Output:

{"headers": ["Employee"], "values": [["Joe"]]}

Solutions

Solution 1

# MySQL query statement

SELECT Name as Employee
FROM Employee emp
WHERE emp.Salary > 
        (SELECT Salary FROM Employee mgr WHERE mgr.Id = emp.ManagerId);

Solution 2

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