While I get where this is going as far as salary potential goes. I also strongly disagree. Early in my career I wasted a lot of time from bad interviews becaus

While I get where this is going as far as salary potential goes. I also strongly disagree. Early in my career I wasted a lot of time from bad interviews because a recruiter seemed to care more about just getting numbers in for an interview than actually good interviews. I have had a recruiter get me in for a job and then just a couple months later call me asking if I am looking for a new opportunity (to be clear, the same person). I have had recruiters completely waste my time and send me to group interviews for tech jobs (by this I mean one person interviewing 10 or so of us at the same time... who does that for a tech job?!?). Oh and then there was that fun time that I had 2 different offers from companies with 2 different recruiters and had the fun situation of one of them trying really hard to convince me to not take the other job even though I kept trying to make it clear that I would learn more in the other job. It was less money but a far better learning opportunity. Because of the constant push from recruiters to get for money I ended up having several jobs that lasted for a year or less that eventually came to give me problems getting my most recent job. Yes I could have done better with this myself but sometimes it can be hard to ignore that magic increase in money. So no, I will continue to ignore most recruiters since I have wasted enough time in my career as it is going on bogus interviews and I have had to tell off at least one that I will never work with again. Also, I get enough literal spam calls as it is. I am not going to answer your recruiter call.