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Salary Ceiling Breach

Description

You have been given a payroll CSV. Each role has a strict salary cap:


| Role | Max Salary |

|-----------|-----------|

| junior | $75,000 |

| mid | $100,000 |

| senior | $130,000 |

| principal | $175,000 |

| director | $250,000 |


Your task: Find all employee IDs where salary strictly exceeds (>) the cap for their role.


Answer format: IDs sorted alphabetically, comma-separated.

Example: EMP-003,EMP-011

Input Data

employee_id,name,role,salary
EMP-001,Sarah Chen,junior,68000
EMP-002,James Park,mid,95000
EMP-003,Lisa Wong,senior,128000
EMP-004,Michael Torres,principal,165000
EMP-005,Emily Davis,director,240000
EMP-006,Ryan Kim,junior,73000
EMP-007,Aisha Johnson,mid,105000
EMP-008,Carlos Rivera,senior,125000
EMP-009,Priya Patel,principal,170000
EMP-010,Daniel Lee,mid,88000
EMP-011,Sophie Martin,junior,71000
EMP-012,Omar Hassan,senior,118000
EMP-013,Yuki Tanaka,junior,82000
EMP-014,Elena Kozlov,principal,168000
EMP-015,Marcus Williams,director,245000
EMP-016,Fatima Al-Rashid,mid,97000
EMP-017,Andrew Chen,senior,122000
EMP-018,Isabella Santos,junior,69000
EMP-019,Kevin O'Brien,principal,185000
EMP-020,Mei Lin Zhang,mid,93000
EMP-021,David Okonkwo,senior,127000
EMP-022,Natasha Volkov,mid,108000
EMP-023,Raj Sharma,junior,74000
EMP-024,Claire Beaumont,principal,172000
EMP-025,Hassan Ibrahim,director,238000

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    "answer": "your_answer_here",
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