Salary expectations: how do you answer? after 15 years as an insurance claims processor

I have been out of work for 2 weeks and feel pressure to accept less. I have read a lot of threads here and could not find my exact situation. I looked up ranges in Charlotte and they vary a lot. What did you say?

Thanks for writing this out. I went through something close to it 5 months ago, and it settled down once I kept a simple log of every call and form.