Interns at These 25 Companies Earn More Than the Average American Worker

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If you're lucky enough to score a crazy-high-paying internship at Facebook, you no longer get to complain about broke college student woes. In perhaps typical Silicon Valley fashion, the tech behemoth offers its interns a handsome median pay rate of $8,000 per month. It's enough to make any working stiff long to attempt the plot of The Internship — taking an internship as a grown-up at a tech company because the opportunity (and apparently the pay!) is so tremendous.

While Facebook tops the Glassdoor list of highest-paying internships in America, it's far from the only company to offer swanky pay and helpful perks. Both Apple and Yelp, for example, offer a median monthly pay of $6,400, while interns at other companies like Deutsche Bank and Adobe have mentioned the hands-on experience and access to senior employees as major highlights.

As Glassdoor points out, "The median annual salary for a full-time US worker is currently $51,350. However, if interns at these companies worked a full 12 months, their salaries would range from about $96,000 at Facebook (No. 1) to about $55,000 at Bank of America (No. 25), much higher than what the average full-time American worker earns." Keep scrolling to see the list of America's highest-paying internships and feel that slow, familiar burn of envy.

The 25 Highest-Paying Internships in America For 2017

  1. Facebook
    Median Monthly Pay: $8,000
  2. Microsoft
    Median Monthly Pay: $7,100
  3. ExxonMobil
    Median Monthly Pay: $6,507
  4. Salesforce
    Median Monthly Pay: $6,450
  5. Amazon
    Median Monthly Pay: $6,400
  6. Apple
    Median Monthly Pay: $6,400
  7. Bloomberg, L.P.
    Median Monthly Pay: $6,400
  8. Yelp
    Median Monthly Pay: $6,400
  9. Yahoo
    Median Monthly Pay: $6,080
  10. VMware
    Median Monthly Pay: $6,080
  11. Google
    Median Monthly Pay: $6,000
  12. NVIDIA
    Median Monthly Pay: $5,770
  13. Intuit
    Median Monthly Pay: $5,440
  14. Juniper Networks
    Median Monthly Pay: $5,440
  15. Workday
    Median Monthly Pay: $5,440
  16. BlackRock
    Median Monthly Pay: $5,400
  17. Adobe
    Median Monthly Pay: $5,120
  18. MathWorks
    Median Monthly Pay: $5,120
  19. Qualcomm
    Median Monthly Pay: $5,040
  20. Capital One
    Median Monthly Pay: $5,000
  21. Chevron
    Median Monthly Pay: $5,000
  22. Accenture
    Median Monthly Pay: $4,960
  23. Deutsche Bank
    Median Monthly Pay: $4,640
  24. AIG
    Median Monthly Pay: $4,616
  25. Bank of America
    Median Monthly Pay: $4,570
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