RN podhunting, and running emerging conduits is a viable answer. Yeah got the sarcasm too but sometimes you do get jammed up.
Another factor is how nice you are with the agent. You can take a couple hits a day when your’e in the 9’s.
How many Corps you have standing with is another factor, and how you play your LP game. A lot of people go for maximum LP to sell orders, which creates a sub game of market PvP and requires a full time trading ALT. Some people like to sell to buy orders, which drastically changes what LP is worth. Amarr is on the low end of the “LP buy order ISK” spectrum. The missions I fly for Amarr agents generally drop good loot, so I tend to fly the Pally for full clears as opposed to a Mach or Vargur playing smash and grab in Minmatar space. Keep a separate fit to one shot Anire Scarlet though… Anyway, the more agents you have available, the less chance of having to refuse one are much less.
I run anti-amarr missions. When running anti-empire missions payout is mostly in tags - which is loot. about 90M in loot, two missions per hour. Have to finally buy pally - should much be better than loki at killing amarr npcs.
There is still the agent mission payout, which isn’t great, as well as the LP payout, which can be quite important. Saying “almost all” makes me think those tags must be worth an awful lot.