"Maximize income" is not helpful without probabilities attached to the outcomes. What percentage of people who start in banking end up as partners making $5m? A

"Maximize income" is not helpful without probabilities attached to the outcomes. What percentage of people who start in banking end up as partners making $5m? And what does the income distribution for the rest of the bankers look like? I suspect the long term payoff distribution for engineers is fatter, meaning if you end up around the 25th to 75th percentile, which you should expect to do, you will earn more as an engineer.