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.
Only the president, vice president, and the president-elect and vice president-elect have no say over whether they get protection. By law, everyone else can waive theirs, or in the parlance, sign off.. The Secret Service would not comment on whether anyone ever has.