I am the guy who posted :

"STARTING SALARY IS EVERYTHING"

ok obviously this statement is overly sweeping. So I'll add a little disclaimer.

Obviously this only applies to jobs which are dead and labour intensive la, like manufacturing, engineers, low level admin, blar blar you get the point.

For other case which will trash this statement would be:

Revenue generating -> usually low base, but basically that company is yours if you can sell enough.

Military and gahment jobs.

So you what industry what expectations bah