<p>The most I have heard outside of petroleum companies (as a mechanical engineer, FWIW) was somewhere around $32/hr… I suppose that is somewhere around $5200 a month. That was highly unusual at UIUC though. Most places it seemed people made around $20/hr, which is $3200 a month.</p>
<p>This was a couple years ago and only for undergrads.</p>
<p>Personally, I think it is ludicrous to pay interns 9000 a month. I mean, honestly, that equates to 108,000 a year for a kid who probably can do, at best, 2/3 of what a graduated engineer can do.</p>