What do Miami-Dade workers get paid? Search thousands of county employees to see

A plant operator can earn $95,000 a year in Miami-Dade County’s Water and Sewer Department. A member of the janitorial staff of the Parks Department took home less than $25,000 last year. The county’s legal staff employs multiple attorneys making more than $300,000 a year.

The Miami Herald’s annual look at compensation in county government offers a detailed guide to the wide range of incomes in one of the largest payrolls in the region. With roughly 30,000 workers, Miami-Dade is the county’s second-largest employer, behind the school system.

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The chart below uses 2024 compensation data recently released by the administration of Mayor Daniella Levine Cava. One-time payments tied to leaving a county job are excluded from the compensation figures, but the totals do include any overtime or cash benefits received as part of an employee’s work.

The Herald database comes from 2024 compensation information in order to provide a look at a full year’s pay. For current information without some of the details in the Herald’s database, such as overtime pay for the year, check out the county’s own compensation website.

This next chart breaks out the county’s top earners of overtime into their own ranking, showing both total pay and how much of that came from overtime. Typically, employees receive 150% of their regular hourly wage when paid in overtime, which generally kicks in after somebody works 40 hours in a week.

This story was originally published September 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM.