How to find third or nᵗʰ maximum salary from salary table?

Question

How to find third or n^th maximum salary from salary table(EmpID, EmpName, EmpSalary) in optimized way?

Answer 1

Third or nth maximum salary from salary table without using subquery

select salary from salary
   ORDER   BY salary DESC
   OFFSET  N-1 ROWS
   FETCH NEXT 1 ROWS ONLY

For 3rd highest salary put 2 in place of N-1