The top 4 public employees last year in CA are all coaches from the University of CA system (UCLA football [$4.3m], UCLA Basketball [$4.25m], Cal Football $3.1m], and the retired UCLA Football coach [$3m]).
The next 20 or so are doctors in the UC system and the Chief Investment Officer of the UC system. The Chancellor, Michael Drake who left Ohio St will make the list in 2021, his first full year.
The highest non-UC employee employee is the chief investment officer of the California State Teachers' Retirement System (the world's largest pension system) at $1,302,646.