GOOGLE INTERNSHIP PAYS £4,000 A MONTH – PLUS FREE HOUSING, FOOD AND GYM MEMBERSHIP
UK interns may want to look away now. In America, Google are paying their interns up to £4,000 a month – four times what many UK interns earn. And Microsoft pay some of their interns more than £7,000 a month.
At Google’s headquarters, the stereotype of the overworked and underpaid intern doesn’t seem to apply. The average intern working at the tech giant’s California base, makes around £3,900 dollars a month. Those on more specialist internships, such as software engineers, get paid as much as £4,300 month. By contrast, UK interns ‘lucky’ enough to earn the minimum wage are paid a puny £1,000 a month.
And Google didn’t even top the list of best-paying internships. According to data from the job rating company Glassdoor, Microsoft bagged top place for paying its research interns a whopping £7,400 a month. Amazon also rates highly, paying interns more than £3,700 a month.
With interns at Google usually working for three months, the average salary is $20,000 (£13,000) for a stint at the company’s California headquarters. And they may find it hard to actually spend any of their salary, as included in the deal is free housing, food, gym membership and even use of the company’s bowling alley. University of Illinois student Rohan Shah, 20, who interned at Google, admitted he was treated to free corporate housing, free shuttle buses to get around the company’s headquarters – as well as endless free food from Google’s canteens. Scott Dobroski, from Glassdoor, says giants like Google are willing to pay huge salaries to attract the best candidates, especially in the technology sector:
“It’s not that surprising that interns at a company like Google are getting paid so handsomely. The war for tech talent continues to rage on.”
For graduates looking for a job, this highlights what a massive gap there is in the intern pay culture. Giants like Google and Amazon are willing to pay top whack to attract the best graduates. But what about their friends, who aren’t quite so lucky? Is it fair that some interns earn £7400 a month – while others earn nothing at all?
*DO YOU KNOW ANY INTERNS MAKING CRAZY MONEY?
Is it a myth that all internships are poorly paid? Which internships pay the best, in your experience? Is it fair that the difference in salaries is so huge, at such an early stage in your career? Would it be more sensible if all internships paid a standard salary, somewhere in the middle?
Where do I sign up!?!
Unfortunately, as well as being massively competitive I’d imagine – and in real life probably requiring actual serious coding skills (unlike in the film) – US immigration laws would probably prevent most of us taking up these internships, unless we could secure a temporary visa allowing us to work.
Wheras ironically if they were unpaid you’d be more likely to get away with doing it on a tourist visa waiver (though technically you would likely still be violating US immigration law, especially if you verbally stated you were a tourist on entry).
A job is a job is a job…. and yet some glorify Real Jobs, even working within Google, which only pay £4,000. Ignoring the “Internship” tag, such jobs should pay the Market Rate, for which the State would receive its fair payment through Tax, National Insurance and Salary Consumption Purchases.
Hence… do you want to be paid a real salary for the work that you are going, or do you want to be complicit in deceit, and support organisational practises which are designed to achieve nothing other than Tax Fraud?
Yeah, well you see Alex the so-called ‘special relationship’ goes so deep that the US effectively bars most UK citizens from working there or realistically getting a chance at citizenship. Even on there ‘green card lottery’ UK citizens are banned which shows how highly they regard the relationship, what relationship? I don’t think there are any other nationalities that are banned just us, racist much? Oh they don’t mind if your a rich UK citizen though or the next Albert Einstein, then you can come over.