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Where the interns paid, at a market rate? This seems like legal documentation demonstrating that they were working on core development for the firm. So without fair pay, that is illegal is it not?

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Jane Street pays interns a little more than $60/hr. Pretty competitive. Definitely in line with unicorns and big tech ($50/hr @ FB and AirBnb, $45 @ Apple, etc)

Airbnb is ~$40 an hour but they have unlimited overtime.

From what I've heard Apple starts at $38 an hour.

FB isn't hourly, it's $8k a month.

Amazon is $7.725k a month or $7.2k if you take corporate housing. It's more in California and NYC - $8.4k a month, or $7.9k if you take corporate housing.

I was told Amazon interns also had to pay $300/mo for not particularly nice corporate housing in the UW dorms. My understanding was this was in additional to the salary reduction.

Nope, its only a salary reduction. In addition, they get a "husky card" with a daily stipend for on-campus dining hall/food court meals/gym entrance etc - a few friends of mine took it and they said the value of the husky card was more than $300 if they spent all of it.

Also, UW Dorms are only for summer interns. Off cycle interns live in 1 bedroom apartments in SLU. They're really nice with a $500 salary reduction.

Interns at Jane Street can be paid nearly $10,000 per month.

Of course they were fairly paid. Probably at least 80k/yr amortized for their work. At least that is how it happens at every other big tech company, and I'm sure if you can intern at jane street you can intern at amazon et al.

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