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Want to know salaries of Cabarrus County employees? Search this Observer database.

Cabarrus County employs about 100 people who earn at least $100,000. Search the data below to see how much county public employees make.
Cabarrus County employs about 100 people who earn at least $100,000. Search the data below to see how much county public employees make. Tamia Boyd

Cabarrus County employs roughly 1,400 people — with attorneys, detention officers, emergency personnel and librarians among them.

About 100 employees earn at least $100,000 and one, the deputy county manager, makes more than $200,000.

Here is how the salaries of workers break down by the highest average salary-earning departments as of March 2025.

▪ County manager office: with three employees, pays an average salary of $144,000.

▪ Legal department: with two employees, pays an average salary of $138,000.

▪ Facilities design and construction department: with two employees, pays an average salary of $116,000.

▪ Budget department: with three employees, pays an average salary of $110,000.

Search the database below to view the salaries of all Cabarrus County employees.

Gavin Off
The Charlotte Observer
Gavin Off was previously the Charlotte Observer’s data reporter, since 2011. He also worked as a data reporter at the Tulsa World and at Scripps Howard News Service in Washington, D.C. His journalism, including his data analysis and reporting for the investigative series Big Poultry, won multiple national journalism awards.
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