The approach I've taken throughout my career when asked about my salary expectations is to say: it depends on the details. There are some jobs I would do for f

The approach I've taken throughout my career when asked about my salary expectations is to say: it depends on the details. There are some jobs I would do for free as a volunteer or purely for equity (e.g. advising a startup or teaching kids to program), and there are some jobs I would do only if I were making a ridiculous amount of money (e.g. being a mid-level project manager at a large company), and a lot of possibilities in between. So I can't tell you what my compensation expectations are because they depend too much on the details of the job. It has the added benefit of being the truth.