This is spot on for me as an employer, I have a wage budget per overhead and we try to get new staff within these wage parameters, we could say for instance pay a little less for an unqualified first job applicant (obviously they would get pay reviews and gradually get to our max budget) but what we saved originally we would spend on an aggressive wage package to employ someone we knew that was already respected in our industry.
No previous wage checks, as rabbitstew said they give us a figure and we negotiate from there and depends how much we want them and willing to pay 😀
Good luck I'm sure you will be fine, you have to play the game and employers know that, just don't ask for 1million a year lol