PQRS is a Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) reporting program that uses a combination of incentive payments and negative payment adjustments to promote reporting of quality information by eligible professionals (EPs) - that's you, the physician.
The Attorney General will return $10,750 in salary, and the Secretary of State will donate $9,175 to a charity for his department's employees.
There are contract counsel who may be earning somewhat less (even as low as $50,000) and some general counsel who have a base salary that exceeds $200,000; but for the most part, in the Boston area, in-house salaries fall in a bell curve between $75,000 and $200,000.