$7,500 A Month! Look At The Insane Salaries Interns Earn At Top Tech Companies

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Competition for talented software programmers and computer hardware engineers is so intense, interns can expect land salaries of $4,000 to well over $6,000 a month at some top tech companies, according to InternMatch, a site that helps students find paid internships.

One company even pays as much as $7,500 a month.

At IBM interns can earn $3,942 a month

Average IBM intern salary: $3,942

Intern class size: unknown

Average starting salary if offered a full-time job: $77,370

Best paying specialties: Hardware, machine learning, Java

InternMatch advice: IBM's "premiere intern program, dubbed Extreme Blue, offers everything you’d expect: challenging projects, competitive pay, relocation assistance, access to IBM recognition and ideas programs, and plenty of social activities over the course of the internship program."

At EMC interns can earn $4,004 a month

Average EMC intern salary: $4,004

Intern class size: unknown

Average starting salary if offered a full-time job: $77,661

Best paying specialties: Cloud computing, IT architecture

InternMatch advice:"Engineering students generally speak well of their time at EMC. There is plenty of challenging work, smart teams to be a part of and a good culture that embraces challenge, but isn’t overrun with pressure. If students have any overt complaints about EMC it is that the company is large enough to be bureaucratic."

At Rackspace interns can earn $4,012 a month

Average Rackspace intern salary: $4,012

Intern class size: unknown

Average starting salary if offered a full-time job: $66,638

Best paying specialties:Cloud computing, servers, infrastructure

InternMatch advice:"Replete with Star Wars memorabilia, indoor slides, game rooms and all the latest technical gadgets, Rackspace has a great developer culture. Rackspace prides itself on being a family, where everyone is accepted, because of this the company has a uniquely open culture, where interns (or 'Rackterns' as they are called) are encouraged to blog about their experience, share their ideas openly."