Ask HN: How much do you pay software engineering interns?

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I am curious to know the general salary a decent intern would expect to make. I know some SF startups offer up to $7000 a month for interns, but other places don't go more than $3000. I am looking for companies both in the US and Canada.

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I'm getting paid $24/hour at a startup in Ontario, Canada.

Of which a large % is being subsidized by the government, most likely. Seems rather high for an intern.

From the intern side, when I have been paid (I had a three-year unpaid internship because it was the best job opportunity around), it's been between $8 and $25 an hour. The $8/hr was for other jobs in which I was also asked to do work that included software development. The $25/hr was way outside standard deviation; from reading the want ads and talking to other CS students, intern programmers usually make in the $14-$18 range. A real, non-intern job in IT paid me $16-$17/hr.

My first internship (not CS) paid around $14 an hour, with full benefits. My IT internship paid from $15.xx/hr and no benefits, with a standard raise every semester you worked. I know the software interns got paid the same $15.xx starting off, but their raise was variable. I think at the top end they were making $25 an hour. This was in Georgia, so figure COLA adjustments and all that.

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