Question

I have a paystub table in which the payroll records are recorded.

The fields related to this query are the YearToDateGrossPay and the year.

I need to search through all the paystub records and select the top 5 highest paid years.

The last paystub of each year would tell me the final YTD amounts for that year and then I could select the top 5 of that subquery, but I’m not too sure how to do that.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

If you already have the subquery which selects the final YTD amounts, you can finish it off by

SELECT * FROM final_ytd_amounts ORDER BY ytd_amount DESC LIMIT 5

The ORDER BY ytd_amount DESC sorts the table by ytd_amount in descending order

The LIMIT 5 selects the top 5 rows only and chops everything else off