Who earns the biggest piece of the public salary pie in Miami-Dade County?

In many other municipalities, it might be the mayor or perhaps the top cop, or at least that's what one might suspect. But that's not the case here. Instead, county data on employee pay shows that the majority of the county's most well-compensated employees are lawyers working in the County Attorney's Office — including the county's top-paid employee, who rakes in a staggering $205,000 more than Mayor Daniella Levine Cava. (The mayor, notably, cut her pay in 2020 from $250,000 to $200,000, and still wouldn’t come close to sniffing the top 25 either way.)

From attorneys to doctors to (spoiler!) more attorneys, here’s a quick rundown of the 25 highest-paid Miami-Dade County employees as of July 2025, ranked from t

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