SQL Subquery Exercises: Find out the names of all employees whose salary is greater than 50% of their department’s total salary bill

SQL SUBQUERY: Exercise-31 with Solution

Write a query which is looking for the names of all employees whose salary is greater than 50% of their department’s total salary bill.

Sample table: employees

Sample Solution:

SELECT e1.first_name, e1.last_name 
FROM employees e1 
WHERE salary > 
( SELECT (SUM(salary))*.5 
FROM employees e2 
WHERE e1.department_id=e2.department_id);

Sample Output:

first_name	last_name
Kimberely	Grant
Jennifer	Whalen
Michael		Hartstein
Susan		Mavris
Hermann		Baer
Shelley		Higgins

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