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Learn, how to sort a list of employees based on salary using Linq in C#? By Nidhi Last updated : April 01, 2023

Here, we will create a list of employees and then sort a list of employees using the OrderBy() method based on salary.

C# program to sort a list of employees based on salary using LINQ

The source code to sort a list of employees based on salary using Linq is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully on Microsoft Visual Studio.

//C# program to sort the list of employees 
//based on salary.

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class Employee {
  int ID;
  string Name;
  int Salary;

  public override string ToString() {
    return ID + " " + Name + " " + Salary;
  }

  static void Main(string[] args) {
    List <Employee> employees = new List <Employee> () {
      new Employee {ID = 101, Name = "Amit  ", Salary = 4000},
      new Employee {ID = 102, Name = "Gautam", Salary = 6000},
      new Employee {ID = 103, Name = "Salman", Salary = 3000},
      new Employee {ID = 104, Name = "Ram   ", Salary = 2000},
    };

    var result = employees.OrderBy(sal => sal.Salary);

    Console.WriteLine("ID  Name   Salary");
    Console.WriteLine("==================");
    foreach(Employee emp in result) {
      Console.WriteLine(emp.ToString());
    }
    Console.WriteLine("==================");
  }
}

Output

ID  Name   Salary
==================
104 Ram    2000
103 Salman 3000
101 Amit   4000
102 Gautam 6000
==================
Press any key to continue . . .

Explanation

In the above program, we created a class Demo that contains the Main() method. In the Main() method we created a list of employees with fields ID, Name, Salary.

var result = employees.OrderBy(sal => sal.Salary);

The above method call will return the sorted list of employees based on salary.

Console.WriteLine("ID  Name   Salary");
Console.WriteLine("==================");
foreach (Employee emp in result)
{
    Console.WriteLine(emp.ToString());
}
Console.WriteLine("==================");

In the above code, we accessed the employee detail one by one and print on the console screen.

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