fetch fourth maximum record from the table field

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Following is the command to fetch maximum salary form empsalary table in mysql

select max(salary) from empsalary;

but I want to fetch employee who got fourth highest from the list of employee. I don't want to use trigger or function because I know there is direct command to fetch.

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