I agree, although I have had no experience with recruiters specializing in JOs, recruiters in general were useless to me unless I wanted to start at 50 grand somewhere.
However, I just spoke to the JO that sits next to me in my current class, and he said he did talk to some "JO" recruiters before getting out. He said that they can do nothing to help you get into commercial nuclear power, if that is what you want. For other jobs though, they might be able to find you something with a good starting pay, but it was usually in a non-ideal location. He said he had a job offer starting at 95K, but it was in the middle of no where.
That is the important thing to note, that if commercial nuclear power is your goal, those recruiters won't help you with that. Only your own research and work can get you into commercial nukes... which for you, means Instant/Direct SRO or engineering, for the most part.
In that case, XF is right in that your starting pay can be anywhere from the 60s to 100s (engineering to SRO), depending on location.
I think you will find that your best starting pay is going to be in the form of direct SRO.
Justin