MongoDB $lte Operator (original) (raw)

Last Updated : 12 Jul, 2025

MongoDB ****$lte Operator** is one of the comparison operators. $lte operator selects those documents where the field value is less than equal to (<=) the given value.

This operator can be used in methods like find(), update(), etc. according to your requirements..

**Syntax

{field: {$lte: value}}

MongoDB $lte Operator Example

In the following examples, we are working with:

**Database: GeeksforGeeks

**Collection: employee

**Document: four documents that contain the details of the employees in the form of field-value pairs.

demo database and collection creation

**Example 1:

In this example, we are selecting those documents where the value of the salary field is less than equals to 35000.

**Query

db.employee.find({salary: {$lte: 35000}}) .pretty()

**Output

example 1 output

**Example 2

In this example, we are selecting only those documents where the age of the employee is less than equals to 24. Or in other words, in this example, we are specifying conditions on the field in the embedded document using dot notation.

**Query:

db.employee.find({"personalDetaisl.age": {$lte:24}})

**Output:

**Example 3

In this example, we are selecting only those documents where the points array is less than equals to the specified array.

**Query:

db.employee.find({points: {$lte:[4,5]}}).pretty()

**Output

**Example 4

In this example, we are updating the salary of those employees whose experience year is less than equals to 2 years.

**Note: The **update() method by default update only one document at a time. If you want to update multiple documents, then set the value of its multi parameter to true. So, in this example, the update() method updated the first document that matches the given condition as shown in the below image.

**Query:

db.employee.update({experienceYear: {$lte: 2}}, {$set: {salary: 32000}})
WriteResult({"nMatched" : 1, "nUpserted" : 0, "Modified" : 1 })
db.employee.find({experienceYear: {$lte: 2}}).pretty()

**Output:

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