Budget per Head
Two teams at Kestrel Labs have both told the CFO they are underfunded, and both are right on their own terms: one has a large budget spread over more people, the other a small budget and almost nobody. An analyst is asked to settle it with a figure that makes the two comparable — how much budget each team has behind each person on it.
That means dividing a fact about the team by a fact about its people, so the two tables have to be brought together before the division can happen.
departments — one row per team. budget is that team's annual budget in dollars.
| id | name | budget |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Engineering | 900000 |
| 2 | Sales | 400000 |
| 3 | Marketing | 250000 |
| 4 | Data | 500000 |
employees — one row per person. department_id is the team they sit on, given as the matching id in departments; salary is annual pay in dollars; hire_date is the day they started, written year-month-day; manager_id is the id of the person they report to, and is NULL for anyone who reports to nobody.
| id | name | department_id | salary | hire_date | manager_id |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ava Chen | 1 | 145000 | 2021-03-14 | NULL |
| 2 | Ben Ortiz | 1 | 118000 | 2022-06-01 | 1 |
| 3 | Cara Novak | 1 | 121000 | 2023-01-10 | 1 |
| 4 | Deshawn Lee | 2 | 95000 | 2020-09-23 | NULL |
| 5 | Elin Kask | 2 | 88000 | 2022-11-05 | 4 |
| 6 | Farid Amiri | 3 | 76000 | 2023-04-18 | NULL |
| 7 | Grace Kim | 4 | 132000 | 2021-07-30 | NULL |
| 8 | Hugo Silva | 4 | 110000 | 2023-02-14 | 7 |
| 9 | Ines Duarte | 4 | 104000 | 2023-08-01 | 7 |
| 10 | Jonas Weber | 2 | 91000 | 2021-12-19 | 4 |
Both tables already exist in the database — there is nothing to create or load.
Task: Write a query returning two columns, name (the team's name) and budget_per_head (the team's budget divided by how many employees it has, rounded to two decimal places), one row per team, highest figure first. No two teams tie. Give a true decimal result, not a whole-number one — a team whose figure is not a round number must show its cents.
Example output — shape only, on invented teams. The lower two rows show the point about decimals: a figure that does not land whole keeps its cents rather than being cut back to a round number:
| name | budget_per_head |
|---|---|
| Legal | 240000 |
| Logistics | 87333.33 |
| Support | 62500.75 |
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