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bookChallenge: Salary Progression Analysis

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Write a query to analyze how each employee's current salary compares to the earliest salary in their department. Your query must return the following columns for each employee:

  • employee_id
  • name
  • department
  • salary
  • The earliest salary in the employee's department, based on the earliest hire_date
  • The difference between the employee's salary and the department's earliest salary.

Steps:

  • Use a window function to find the earliest salary in each department, ordered by hire_date.
  • Calculate the difference between each employee's salary and the department's earliest salary.
  • Return all required columns for each employee.

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bookChallenge: Salary Progression Analysis

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Task

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Write a query to analyze how each employee's current salary compares to the earliest salary in their department. Your query must return the following columns for each employee:

  • employee_id
  • name
  • department
  • salary
  • The earliest salary in the employee's department, based on the earliest hire_date
  • The difference between the employee's salary and the department's earliest salary.

Steps:

  • Use a window function to find the earliest salary in each department, ordered by hire_date.
  • Calculate the difference between each employee's salary and the department's earliest salary.
  • Return all required columns for each employee.

Solution

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