Because your personal experience “right out of college” when you interviewed for an 80k job and didn’t get it, should be what guides the rest of us in our eleemosynary impulses.
The application I made was for a potiion which was ALREADY filled before ANY interviews took place, and UW was going through the motions.
No one was going to get that job but her and no exact salary was described or presented.
I wanted to work close to home in my own community. Didn’t happen.