Internship pay

Only 42.8% of open postings publish pay (5,209 of 12,158), so every figure here is about those postings, not all internships · as of Nov 6, 2026

In Canada? See Canada internship pay →

Median hourly pay (US$)$27.00Middle half $22.50–$36.11 · N=4,545

Median hourly pay (C$)C$30.52Middle half C$25.50–C$42.30 · N=358

Paid, unpaid, or not stated

Out of all 12,158 open postings (14,700 requisitions).

Publish their pay: 42.8% (5,209 of 12,158)
Say they are unpaid: 1% (125 of 12,158)
Mention pay we couldn't read: 15.6% (1,900 of 12,158)
Don't say: 40.5% (4,924 of 12,158)

US pay, in US$

The by-field, by-state and by-term tables below use only pay published in US dollars. Canadian-dollar pay is on the Canada page.

By field

Median US$ per hour, middle half, and N (postings that publish pay). US$ pay only. A posting can be in several fields, or none.

Field	Median	Middle half	N
Business	$25.60	$22.00–$35.00	1,017
Engineering	$29.50	$25.00–$36.21	691
Computer Science	$35.00	$26.74–$45.56	539
Finance	$27.00	$23.00–$35.43	510
Data Science	$37.50	$27.00–$58.00	383
Product & Design	$29.00	$24.50–$38.12	224

By state

Median US$ per hour, middle half, and N (postings that publish pay). US postings with a state. 29 states with fewer than 30 such postings aren't shown.

State	Median	Middle half	N
CA	$38.00	$29.00–$47.57	786
NY	$31.73	$24.00–$50.00	393
MA	$30.50	$25.00–$36.30	278
IL	$26.50	$23.29–$32.50	246
TX	$28.00	$23.50–$35.05	240
MN	$25.00	$22.50–$26.56	143
VA	$22.00	$17.00–$25.00	125
CO	$26.92	$24.40–$32.00	117
NJ	$35.00	$25.00–$36.30	105
MI	$32.75	$20.50–$35.19	105
WA	$28.50	$23.35–$37.50	102
OH	$23.38	$21.38–$27.00	100
PA	$31.59	$22.75–$36.30	100
WI	$25.00	$22.75–$27.00	98
FL	$25.00	$23.00–$32.00	81
NC	$24.03	$22.73–$28.40	62
IN	$22.82	$18.00–$30.00	59
GA	$25.00	$22.88–$33.50	56
MO	$23.67	$20.00–$25.50	42
AZ	$22.50	$21.93–$30.00	40
DC	$18.50	$18.40–$23.75	35
CT	$27.00	$26.00–$33.00	34

By term

Median US$ per hour, middle half, and N (postings that publish pay). US$ pay only. The term the posting names; “Not stated” when it names none.

Term	Median	Middle half	N
Not stated	$26.00	$21.00–$36.30	2,329
Summer	$28.00	$23.46–$37.00	1,753
Spring	$25.00	$22.00–$31.68	334
Winter	$37.00	$29.00–$42.50	89
Fall	$20.50	$13.94–$31.37	40

How these numbers are made

Counting unit: a posting is one role. Repeat requisitions from the same employer with the same title and the same location (city, state or province, country, and remote or not) count once, using the newest one. A role posted once per store therefore adds one pay value, not one per store. Open, de-duplicated postings only. Pay is compared per hour in US dollars: weekly pay ÷ 40, monthly × 12 ÷ 2,080, yearly ÷ 2,080, and a range counts at its midpoint. Hourly values outside $5–$250 are almost always misread amounts and are left out (0 postings). 301 postings that publish pay are left out of the pay figures as teaching-assistant or corrector roles (by title: “teaching assistant”, “correcteur” or “correctrice”, or a TA / COR / CORR code alongside “CUPE” or a course number), because their pay is set by university union agreements and would dominate the sample. They still count everywhere else, including the share that publishes pay. Canadian-dollar pay is kept separate (see the Canada page). Any group with fewer than 30 postings that publish pay isn't shown. “Middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile. “Say they are unpaid” counts postings without published pay whose description calls the role unpaid (“unpaid leave” and the like don't count). Dates are when a posting was first seen; application deadlines are too rarely stated to use.