How to Find Out Nth Highest Salary In SQL

Find Out lowest salary

We want to find lowest fourth salary.

select top 1 salary from t1 where salary in( select distinct top 4 salary from t1 order by salary asc) order by salary desc

Step 1:

If you wand second, third, fourth, nth lowest salary.

For example I want to find fourth lowest salary by this query we found out four lowest salary.

select distinct top 4 salary from t1 order by salary asc

Step 2:

Now we find top 1 highest salary form step-1 query by reverse in desc order.

select top 1 salary from t1 where salary in
(
select distinct top 4 salary from t1 order by salary asc
)
order by salary desc

You can find nth higest salary by replacing number like:

select top 1 salary from t1 where salary in
(
   select distinct top n salary from t1 order by salary asc
)
order by salary desc

Just try this, I hope it will help you.