I am trying to display the maximum average salary; however, I can\'t seem to get it to work.
I can get a list of the average salaries to display with:
Columns resulting from aggregate functions (e.g. avg) usually get arbitrary names. Just use an alias for it, and select on that:
select max(avg_salary) from (select worker_id, avg(salary) AS avg_salary from workers group by worker_id) As maxSalary;