how to get top three salary getters from table employee

Dear All,
i want to know how to get top three salary getters from the employee(eid , ename, salary) table

i tried this
select top 3 salary from employee order by salary desc

but it gives me top three salary record say there is salary 1000,1200,1300,1300,1500
then my query return me 1500,1300,1200 whereas i want to 1500,1300,1300,1200

how can i do it

please help

thanks

You can run this query:

SELECT * FROM YourTable
WHERE Salary IN (
SELECT DISTINCT TOP 3 Salary FROM YourTable
ORDER BY Salary DESC )
ORDER BY Salary DESCsql