<p>I think I may have undervalued myself in a recent interview. I thought $15/hour doing hardware digital and analog design was reasonable but glassdoor has the salary range for this type of work from $20-$35. I'm considering asking $20 if I get the offer. What do you guys think?</p>
<p>Internship?</p>
<p>You shouldn’t be paid at all.</p>
<p>For an internship, $15/hr is pretty good. Usually they are non-paid.</p>
<p>are you guys insane? I dont know a single computer engineering student doing an unpaid internship. if the internship involves actual engineering and not coffee making like every other internship I fully expect to be paid.</p>
<p>Yes you should ask for the low $20/hr range. Unpaid internships are for liberal arts.</p>
<p>Remember that the point of an internship is to learn the necessary skills to compete in the job market; the importance of the pay is a distance second. In other words, don’t jeopardize your internship for $5 more per hour if there is a risk they won’t take you.</p>
<p>Interns don’t make as much as regular people do for doing a job since they’ll end up spending most of the time training you and then seeing very little out of it. 15/hour is pretty normal, but don’t act offended if you like the job and they offer a little less. </p>
<p>And no, engineering internships aren’t usually non-paid. I don’t recall seeing anything unpaid when I was looking.</p>
<p>15/hour is a little low.
You should be able to make in the low 20’s. Or at least high-teens. </p>
<p>It does not hurt to ask, for them to raise your offer.
If they say no, no harm done.
Just be polite about it.</p>
<p>Unpaid interns? Not only is that extremely rare (at least at reasonably good engineering schools), but it also greatly limits the work you can do. Basically, if you’re unpaid you’re limited to shadowing another engineer, otherwise the company can be fined by the federal government.</p>
<p>As far as EE intern salaries go, they range from $15 to $30 per hour, with freshman on the lower end and seniors on the higher end. You’ll make less with a lower GPA, you’ll make more from a better school, and you’ll make less if your internship is in the same city as your college (no need to relocate).</p>
<p>agreed. just trying to watch my finances. my gpa is good: 3.4 cum, 3.7 major. my school is ok (the company does recruit there). but the city its located in is expensive (boulder) so $15 may be low. if I get the offer I will ask for a little more. if they offer it wont hurt to ask anyways since they’ve already made up their mind</p>
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<p>Market price in my area is $16/hr. Go ahead and ask for $20. No harm. No foul. Just be prepared to justify the additional expense to the hiring manager, since they may have a handful of candidates willing to work at market wage.</p>
<p>I’d be impressed if an engineer intern attempted to negotiate. That would confirm my decision. I’d push them like hell to justify why they were worth $2k more than the next best candidate.</p>
<p>You’ve got a good point there, redwing. I guess I’ll have to see how qualified I am for the job before I attempt to negotiate</p>
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<p>And you’d have a very hard time doing it. Unless you have some outstanding previous experience at a competitor or you have a compelling exceptional case (for example, a 30 year old college student with 10 years of technician experience prior to returning to school), college students - especially interns with little to no experience - are a dime a dozen. This is especially true in a college town like Boulder, where I could post a sheet of paper in the student center and get 20 resumes from EE’s with 3.0+ GPAs overnight. </p>
<p>If you tried to negotiate with me, it could go well, but it’s more likely to go poorly and end up with your offer rescinded. Only negotiate if you have a fall back plan or know that you’re substantially underpaid.</p>
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<p>The time between the offer and your acceptance is the only time to raise the issue. Not before. Not after. But as others have posted you have to judge the overall competitive situation, your goals and objectives, and the vibes you get from the hiring manager. </p>
<p>Good luck on your search!</p>
<p>Internship $$ for rising sophomore < junior < senior < grad student < 2nd year grad student.</p>
<p>So what is OP’s grade level?
You got an internship doing both A & D, but no interfacing, no RF, no firmware, or no microprocessing? Summer internship (90 day) ? Wow.</p>
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Some internships will subsidize local transportation needs and housing. Some will pay to/from transportation. Some will have offer a free meal (lunch). </p>
<p>Then some won’t. </p>
<p>OP needs to clarify what other benefits or lack of benefits are being offered.</p>
<p>OP (me) doesn’t have that information. only done one interview so far and the comapny is small enough the webs doesnt have that info. it would be nice if they offer relocation and housing but I highly doubt they would given the economy and location.</p>
<p>as it stands i’ve done three interviews with another company doing cs work so this one may be a bust. this company does contract electronic solutions so pretty much would be every facet of circuit design to realization to manufacturing. it sounds exactly like computer engineering… hard to get any closer than that. but its out of state and like someone else said, theres probably 20 csu students lined up at their door</p>
<p>i’ll be a senior this summer</p>
<p>And I just got a call asking to set up another interview with this company. Man this could be a hard choice if I get both offers!</p>
<p>I don’t really know of any companies that subsidize housing or provide moving expenses for interns anymore. Some will make arrangements (either arrange a corporate apartment or contract with a local university to use their dorms), but generally the intern still pays the rent. Most larger companies offer apartment-finder services for free.</p>