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Highest paid technology interns

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I'm not sure if I'm just experiencing the higher side of things, but these numbers seem low, or outdated. Friends at several of these companies have been paid on average, about $1,000 or so more than reported here for internships, excluding stipends for travel/living.

Other industries are catching up too. Several of the US investment banks have been paying their interns around the same range, with some going much higher. Lenard Green & Co (leonardgreen.com) is apparently paying at least one intern 140 pro-rated for the summer.

Disclaimer: this may be hearsay and completely false, but these sources have little reason to lie.

Maybe this is for all interns at the firm, so companies that hire more interns for lower-paid positions end up with an average below what an engineering intern sees.

Yes, could be accounting interns.

They have to be outdated.

That makes me sad. VMWare pays its interns a higher "salary" than what I currently make. (But that's apples to oranges. I'm currently a UX designer that just graduated last year.)

You shouldn't feed sad -- I don't think it's useful to compare these internships to long-term jobs.

Do we even know if these interns should expect those rates when they apply for an actual job?

I've never heard of a company hiring an intern and paying them less than they made while they were interning. At the very least they'd make the same amount and gain benefits.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but I would be completely shocked if any of the companies on the list paid their employees less than interns.

They make way more.

They are getting more than what most senior engineers are getting in my company.

Living in the third world really sucks.

1> They are usually not Year Round. 2> They often don't have benefits 3> SF is EXPENSIVE. Lots of that is just paying to live

They do pay quite well, just not as well as your Austin or whatever salary makes that look like.

I wish I lived in Austin.

I work in Malaysia - the tech scene here is ... underfunded. Our living expenses aren't particularly cheap either.

I would say this is not all that accurate of a list - it seems more a list of what some of the biggest tech companies pay their interns.

Speaking as an alum of a technology company that does not appear on this list, that is correct.

This is not even remotely surprising.

These are all bay area jobs. Factor in the cost of living and it's less than impressive.

MS for one is not

They have a MTV office if we want to get technical. But I guess I should say west coast.

Well true, but still, 72k in sfba and seattle is really different

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