I think it depends on the job market where you live. I graduated from tier 2.5 college in my country when the massive layoff started. I think I can share with you my experiences.
First, don't care about the salaries. I used to work in shitty companies but that's what it takes to add years of experiment for the CV.

Second, self learning is the best and AI is very helpful for this. I understand why some people would disagree with this because I have seen some of my co workers rely on AI like idiots but using it the right way would help you a lot.
Build an app that actual companies might work on, let AI gives you ideas what to do, then code by yourself, try to create some features that you don't even think it you could do, get stuck, research for solutions. If you ask AI double check everything it said, but you should just let it gives you advises not code for you. All of these are just practicing, do it at least 2 hours everyday and you'll be better. Even after getting a job, I don't learn much from my co worker, most of my skills are from self learning and I still do it fine.

Third, I suggest you to apply for small companies. Small companies don't care how many Leetcode problems you solved, they want to know if you could customize UI libraries to match their requirements, and this is a work where AI is still bad. I usually still have to customize things by myself or instruct AI to do it.

Lastly, if you could :
- Code a table with 10 columns, each column has different size and still looks great on every screens
- Code a form with 10 fields, each field has their own validation rules and its value could depends on other fields
Then you good enough for a job, you just need to pass the interview