Employees Earning Above Company Average
Problem
**[Classic — asked at multiple companies]**
Find all employees whose salary is **above the company-wide average**.
Return `name`, `department`, and `salary`, ordered by salary descending.
Tables
Example rows — the live problem includes the full dataset.
employees
| employee_id | name | department | salary |
|---|
Expected output
Your answer should return 2 rows with the columns name, department, salary.
Starter code (SQL)
SELECT *
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