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, but that’s not the case in Miami-Dade. Instead, county data on employee pay shows that the majority of the county’s most well-compensated employees are lawyers who work in the County Attorney’s Office – including the county’s top-paid employee, who rakes in $205,000 more than Mayor Daniella Levine Cava – who in 2020 cut her own pay from $250,000 to $200,000 and wouldn’t come close to sniffing the top 20 either way.