What Industry Coverage Most Lucrative

I think even a declining sector would be lucractive as companies will try to diversify and divest legacy assets (e.g. O&G). If i had to be on any sector, I would pick Healthcare and Tech. 

Healthcare given ageing population and increase in disease burden and Tech given that it's becoming a core component of any industry and it's extremely integrated into our day to day life.

Idk man, I’ve been trying to lateral into casino/gaming myself. Seems like a cool vertical and online gaming is booming. Plus there’ll always be degenerates blowing up their paychecks on a Tuesday night at their regional poker room

Healthcare Tech Enabled Services. Healthcare services is extremely outdated in terms of technology. A lot of millionaire private practice doctors who don't even have electronic medical health records and still prefer hard copy medical records (boomer doctors). 

I disagree with a lot of the business models that are pure telemedicine though. A combination of having brick and mortar clinics and telehealth/virtual home services is important. 

I'd imagine doing corp dev in a highly acquisitive company like this would be pretty fun and can be insanely lucrative if you get in early (an IB/PE skillset would be very helpful too, with that background - you can easily stick out as someone who can wear multiple hats). Personally know a few founders in my healthcare company and all of them had 8 figure paydays (pretty sure our former CEO may have cleared 9).

Pretty sure O&G still pays near top dollar, especially for juniors, a really hot area for both M&A and RX. Tech/healthcare MD’s probably do better though.

is just media & telecom, not tech, also lucrative or not really?

A lot of banks will actually break this out in their filings. It's often between TMT and FIG with a lot of the FIG revenue coming from DCM.