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powershell sorting objects PowerShell

I'm having a hard time understanding I've been researching this but I'm trying to debug I'm working with an array of custom PowerShell objects and need to sort them based on a nested property, but I'm running into issues with the sort order not behaving as expected... For instance, I have an array of objects representing employees, each containing a 'Department' property and a nested 'Salary' property. Here's a simplified version of what I have: ```powershell $employees = @( [PSCustomObject]@{ Name = 'John'; Department = 'HR'; Salary = 60000 }, [PSCustomObject]@{ Name = 'Sara'; Department = 'Finance'; Salary = 80000 }, [PSCustomObject]@{ Name = 'Mike'; Department = 'HR'; Salary = 75000 }, [PSCustomObject]@{ Name = 'Anna'; Department = 'Finance'; Salary = 50000 } ) ``` I want to sort these employees first by the 'Department' and then by 'Salary' within each department. When I try the following command: ```powershell $sortedEmployees = $employees | Sort-Object Department, Salary ``` It sorts the departments correctly, but the salaries are not sorted as I expect within the same department. Instead, I'm getting: - John: 60000 (HR) - Mike: 75000 (HR) - Anna: 50000 (Finance) - Sara: 80000 (Finance) It seems to sort by department first and then by salary, but within the same department, it doesn't sort the salaries in ascending order. I've verified that the 'Salary' property is indeed numeric. I've also tried using `Sort-Object -Property @{Expression='Department'; Ascending=$true}, @{Expression='Salary'; Ascending=$true}`, but the result is the same. What am I missing? Could there be an issue with the way PowerShell handles sorting on nested properties? Any help would be appreciated! The stack includes Powershell and several other technologies. Any advice would be much appreciated. Any pointers in the right direction? For reference, this is a production mobile app. Is this even possible?