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Do you earn less than a Silicon Valley intern?
Source: POLLY MOSENDZ


This year's batch of Silicon Valley interns might earn more money than you.

The median monthly base salary for an engineering-focused intern at some of the big technology companies is US$6800 (NZ$9800).

Annualised, that's $81,600 (NZ$117,000) a year, according to data collected by Rodney Folz, a former student and soon-to-be Yelp intern.


Looking to put together a data set of what his peers earn, Folz sent a Google survey to a variety of computer science and technology groups. He also solicited reports from friends with technology company internships.

His survey was answered anonymously by 503 people who said they landed internships in software or electrical engineering, product design or management, industrial design, and program management.

The students were placed at dozens of technology companies, including Apple, Google and Uber Technologies.

As with any online survey, there's room for bad data.

Three future interns said they landed internships with Snapchat, the social network, ranging from US$9000 to US$11,000 a month, which Folz's network had doubts about.

"A couple [of] people had mentioned they didn't believe the Snapchat offer," he said.

Four responders said Groupon, the e-commerce company that provides discount deals, offered interns in Seattle and Palo Alto benefit packages worth US$13,000, which Folz said was also met with skepticism.

The US$6800 median monthly salary mentioned above was pulled from only the 18 companies that received the most replies, a total of 298 responses.

Based on that sample, the monthly intern haul ranged from US$9000 at Pinterest, an online bookmarking platform, to US$4500 at Tesla Motors.

Folz's survey also asked about other cash benefits that companies offered interns, such as housing and travel stipends.

Those ranged from zip all the way to US$10,500 at Twitch, the live-streaming video platform based in San Francisco. Respondents said Twitch's stipend went for corporate housing and travel expenses. Twitch confirmed that number.

Folz said he created the survey in an effort to ensure young workers in the technology industry did not "undervalue themselves."

Silicon Valley interns can find themselves working on live projects that have the potential to earn substantial money for the company.

"The roles they offer to interns, they're basically full-time responsibilities but for three months at a time," Folz said. "A lot of the products that these student interns [work on] end up being part o


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