Facebook Interns Get $6,000 a Month: Ridiculous or Well-Deserved?
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2012/06/05 13:00:00
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When you hear the word "intern," it usually means low-paying position or no-paying position. It's the kind of job students get when they're too busy with classes to get a full-time job. But for software engineer interns at Facebook, it means big money. According to Glassdoor.com, they get over $6,000 per month on average.
That's more than $72,000 a year. They also get full benefits, three meals a day, an iPhone, a computer, gym access, and $1,000 a month toward housing. Quora.com calculates the actual paycheck to be $4,600 a month, plus an extra $400 for each year of college the intern has completed. However, these are interns employed to do software engineering -- not necessarily your coffee go-ers and copy boys. Still, does $6,000 a month seem a little ridiculous?
That's more than $72,000 a year. They also get full benefits, three meals a day, an iPhone, a computer, gym access, and $1,000 a month toward housing. Quora.com calculates the actual paycheck to be $4,600 a month, plus an extra $400 for each year of college the intern has completed. However, these are interns employed to do software engineering -- not necessarily your coffee go-ers and copy boys. Still, does $6,000 a month seem a little ridiculous?
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MW121 2012/06/05 17:54:15Well-deserved
+12Why does it matter how much they make.. If they have an opportunity to make money good for them.. It shouldn't matter to anyone what others make.. that's the problem with society today.. Everyones more worried about how much someone else makes instead figuring out how they can make more..
Just because the word "intern" has a certain connotation doesn't mean it's set in stone. A good salary like that will help them pay off student loans. :)
Only reason I imagine there are so many "ridiculous" votes is that I imagine most people are incapable and not lucky enough to have landed such a job.
To bad, so sad.
Are you under the impression software engineering is easy? Because I can guerentee you (knowing from experience of minoring in computer science) that it is FAR from easy, and almost always entails working more than 50 hours a week starting out.
EMT's and CNA's.
EMT's are trained to save lives. They can do CPR, start an IV, move badly injured people out of dangerous situations. Their job is sometimes risky and often difficult. But the starting salary for an EMT is usually less than $25,000 a year.
A CNA takes care of the elderly and handicapped. Depending on their level of ability, he or she helps them bathe, dress, eat, go to the toilet, and changes their briefs if they wet or soil themselves. It is a physically and emotionally stressful job with a high risk of back and other musculoskeletal injury. The starting salary for a CNA is also less than $25,000 a year.
These necessary individuals deserve far better than they get. I hardly think that a Facebook software engineer's job is as vital.
I have an EMT certification, took me 10 weeks to get it, and I must say that I cannot complain with my wages with how easy it was to become one (and it was quite easy).
While yes my job can be hard, and often dangerous (had a man who had taken meth, passed out, and suddenly woke up and tried to bite me after being entirely unconscious at safeway), I have got to say that my job is a great deal easier than that of a software engineer.
They do deserve what they make, but the use of the term intern is deceptive.
Boring!
Read some of the "Ridiculous" comments to see examples of the worst kind of envy. ('I don't get it so neither should they.')
Obviously, no one is forcing Facebook to offer $6k. So why call a rate that a free market buyer (Facebook) feels is the right price to pay to a free market seller (a talented software engineering student) "Obscene"?
Are you really a Socialist, or a Communist - who feels that prices should not be based on Free Markets?