Best industry for corporate development compensation?

Looking to lateral from a sponsor-backed HVAC roll-up that’s currently comping me at $70,000 base + 5% target bonus. Assuming I’m industry agnostic and interested in strategic M&A (no sponsor), where should I be looking to maximize compensation, transaction volume and upward mobility?

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Senior VP in CorpDev:

Tech and Healthcare are usually the place to go for higher comp. I know FIG corp dev roles are above average from what I'm aware of too. Industrials usually pay on the lower end from my experience, and energy is a scattershot depending on upstream/midstream/downstream/renewables. 


Within energy, is upstream the highest paid?

 

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