Too High or Too Low. A basic purpose of asking applicants for salary requirements is to use the response as part of the initial screening process.
So, who else do they protect? By law, the Secret Service protects the president and his family, the vice president and her family, the president-elect and his family and the vice president-elect and her family. Former presidents and their spouses also get lifetime protection. A spouse will lose a Secret Service detail if he or she gets remarried.
In 1997, it was reduced to 10 years for presidents taking office after 1997. The 1997 amendment was reverted by the Former Presidents Protection Act of 2012 (Public Law 112-257). All living former presidents and their spouses are now entitled to receive lifetime Secret Service protection.