How to calculate percentage increase between two columns ?

[melhajj]

Greetings,

I have a table with employee number , old salary and new salary. I want to calculate the percentage increase of the employees salary , any guidance please on how to create the measure for this ?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Create Measure, copy in the following, Ensure you update table name and column name if needed. 

b % difference from a = 
VAR __BASELINE_VALUE = SUM('Table Name'[Max of OLD_PROPOSED_SALARY_N])
VAR __VALUE_TO_COMPARE = SUM('Table Name'[Max of PROPOSED_SALARY_N])
RETURN
	DIVIDE(__VALUE_TO_COMPARE - __BASELINE_VALUE, __BASELINE_VALUE)

[az38 · Accepted solution]

@melhajj 

it depends on your data model. for example, do you have dates in your table?

in the most common case you can create a measure

Measure = 
DIVIDE(
CALCULATE(MAX(Table[Salary]), ALLEXCEPT(Table, Table[EMPLOYEE_NUMBER]) ),
CALCULATE(MIN(Table[Salary]), ALLEXCEPT(Table, Table[EMPLOYEE_NUMBER]) )
)
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[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Create Measure, copy in the following, Ensure you update table name and column name if needed. 

b % difference from a = 
VAR __BASELINE_VALUE = SUM('Table Name'[Max of OLD_PROPOSED_SALARY_N])
VAR __VALUE_TO_COMPARE = SUM('Table Name'[Max of PROPOSED_SALARY_N])
RETURN
	DIVIDE(__VALUE_TO_COMPARE - __BASELINE_VALUE, __BASELINE_VALUE)