<p>I am a sophomore in college and recently received and accepted an offer for a summer internship with a large corporation.</p>
<p>I would like to know how, on average, my salary as an intern compares to my salary as a full time employee after graduating. </p>
<p>I hope some people here have completed internships and then went on to work with that same company after graduating and can help me :)</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Most of the time the salaries are similar, if not exactly the same. I’ve never heard of anyone getting a lower starting salary when they started full time, but haven’t seen any huge increases either. Interns at banks last summer might have seen a 10K increase in their salary between internship/fulltime offers since some of the banks didn’t move to 70K before the summer.</p>
<p>I agree with the above poster. While monetarily your salary may be slightly more, you have to consider the other benefits you receive such as PTO, sick days, health, dental, etc, etc.</p>
<p>Yeah, I know that there’s many more benefits involved once I become a full-time employee but I also know that there’s a difference in your pay, I just don’t know what that difference is on average. If anybody has experienced this, please let me know :)</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>It’s going to vary all over the place. It can be higher, lower or the same. Generally full time (in the mfg. sector) will be about 20-30% higher than the second year intern rate. But like I said, every company has their own policy of how they work their intern - permanent salary structure.</p>
<p>That’s an interesting point you make, I am still a sophomore so I will have the opportunity to go back for another summer as an intern, will my pay there increase as well?</p>
<p>I’d just like to get a rough estimate of how much I can be expecting to make if I continue in this position with this company after I graduate.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Alvarez, if you are a sophomore and interned and you are interning again as a junior, chances are, your pay will stay the same unless they offer you a higher hourly wage. </p>
<p>When you graduate, and they offer you full time employment, salary typically will increase. </p>
<p>For example, you are making 20 an hour interning at a big name company (~40k a year give or take). after you graduate, their offer will typically run 45-55k. Depending on the firm, you will also receive a sign on bonus.</p>
<p>Thanks for your insight. Based on what you mentioned, on average, I can expect my pay as a full-timer to be 20-30% higher than my pay as an intern.</p>
<p>If anybody else has been through this or can provide some helpful information please do so :)</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>If anybody would like to comment their opinion please do so :)</p>
<p>You can look on glassdoor, payscale, and similar sites. Google your company and your position title/major and usually it will bring up salaries submitted by users - starting salaries too if you are lucky.</p>
<p>The issue with that is that my position does not really have a title. It simply places me at a division of the company, so there’s no way to find that out.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>