<p>I also posted this in the engineering area but thought here would work as well</p>
<p>My son is a junior in computer engineering and he just accepted an internship in San Diego for the summer.</p>
<p>What should he expect for wages and living expenses? He is going to call tonight and tell me what it pays as I only had an excited text today to tell me he got the spot after 3 interviews LOL</p>
<p>His school may have some salary statistics available.</p>
<p>Figure $20-25/hr with some small places closer to $15 perhaps. Some places will supply an apartment on top of that and some won’t.</p>
<p>My son (college junior) is getting paid $20/hr for a computer science internship in San Francisco this summer.</p>
<p>What to expect for living expenses, you ask? Probably pretty much. We don’t expect him to clear much of anything after paying to live in San Francisco all summer.</p>
<p>Our S got an internship after his JR year with a “stipend” that the employer called a scholarship & did NOT report it as wages. It was $5000 for I believe 10 weeks over the summer. He also had to pay for living expenses.</p>
<p>I know another kid who got paid significantly more and others who were paid less, so I would say there is significant variation. If he lives with another intern, he might save a bit on housing; sometimes the firms that hire interns have suggestions on living options (that’s how S found his place last summer).</p>
<p>I vaguely remember that DS jr internship (ME) was about was $18/hr, in 2005, Portland Or.
The compensation amount was a percentage of a graduating senior, average starting pay. I’d guess that a new BS’er then would make about $48-50k, in 2005, which makes a student finishing jr year about 75-80%.</p>
<p>As a post Master’s intern, CS grad, 2008, he got averaged pay of a graduating CS with Masters. </p>
<p>Both were big companies and company supplied housing was subtracted from the pay. Housing was however at a subsidized rate and included utilities. Likewise with local transportation.</p>
<p>congratulations.</p>
<p>In 2006, USC said most of their engineering interns earn about $20+/hr, FWIW.</p>
<p>In large companies ChemE co-ops get paid really, really well, because as non grads they supposedly have the capability to be productive, i.e. profitable.</p>
<p>DS is interning in summer for a well known company for about $25/hr plus relocation. Another well known computer company was paying $21. Some of his comp sci classmates are interning for non-engineering companies, making over $30.</p>
<p>My son (a junior CS/EE double major) got a software engineering internship in NYC paying over $40/hr plus living stipend! I’m still amazed by this. :)</p>
<p>My s’s internships were in Mech E, were with big corporations, and about 4-5 yrs ago, but they paid really well (something like $10K for the summer). HE was in the same city as his college so they didnt pay much for housing or transportation, but some of his summer roommates (also thereon internships with differnt companies) were given housing stipends and car allowances. Good luck!</p>