Polly Mosendz writes on Bloomberg: “This 12 months’s batch of Silicon Valley summer time interns would possibly earn extra money than you. The median month-to-month base wage for an engineering-focused summer time intern at a few of the large expertise corporations is $6,800. Annualized, that’s $81,600 a 12 months, in accordance with knowledge collected by Rodney Folz, a former College of California Berkeley scholar and soon-to-be Yelp intern. The nationwide wage index is $46,481.52, in accordance with knowledge final compiled by the Social Safety Administration in 2014.” (bloomberg.com)