The Pay Band Check
A recruiter at Kestrel Labs is writing a job advert and has to print a pay band in it. Legal will not sign off on a made-up range, so the band has to be anchored to what the company actually pays today: the least anyone here earns and the most anyone here earns, both on one line so she can paste them straight into the advert template.
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 |
The table already exists in the database — there is nothing to create or load.
Task: Write a query returning exactly one row with two columns, min_salary holding the lowest salary in the table and max_salary holding the highest. Both figures come from the whole company, not from any one team.
Example output — the shape, on invented figures. One row, two columns, side by side rather than stacked:
| min_salary | max_salary |
|---|---|
| 41000 | 205000 |
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