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Both sides tend to avoid the subject. Employers worry about anchoring; candidates worry about pricing themselves out. The result is a process that reaches offer stage before anyone learns the expectations were never compatible.
A short, direct conversation at the outset — the budgeted range, the total package, how reviews work — costs nothing and keeps the process honest.
Where a range genuinely does not match the market for the capability required, it is better to know before the search begins so the brief, the seniority or the timeframe can be adjusted.