As soon a as company contacts you, ask the wage. They’ll dodge the question, so you say “I notice you didn’t answer my question about the wage, so what’s the wage?” And you keep asking and they keep dodging until one of two things happens:
They say “we’re looking for someone who is motivated by more that just money.” And then you say “well people work for money, however I am also motivated by other forms of compensation like pensions and profit sharing.”
They ask you to come in for an interview, and you say “I can’t take the time to come in for an interview when you haven’t even told me the wage yet.”
It seems pretty clear you didn’t need those jobs, so why are you playing along?