Facebook interns earn 6k a month.

[RandySF]

The race for talent is so insane in Silicon Valley that companies like Facebook are now hiring high school students for their summer internships. Even before they can shave on a consistent basis, interns in Silicon Valley can make $6,000 a month, according to job-search site Glassdoor.

For perspective, Bloomberg notes that the average U.S. households pulled down $4,280 a month in 2012, to census figures.

Now, not everybody in the Valley is canvassing the prom-shopping crowd. Google requires that interns be at least a college freshman.

But the pay disparity remains.

An intern can’t make that much working at The White House. You know how much interns at the White House make? Bupkis. Or as the application says “This is an unpaid internship. Students selected to be White House Initiative interns will be required to secure their own housing while in Washington, D.C. ”

http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/07/09/high-school-interns-at-facebook-make-more-than-average-american/#21092101=0

[Hofbrau]

1. K...

[jaysunb]

2. I'm available.....

[Mnemosyne]

3. No wonder the legislators do nothing about intern slave labor; they 'use' them too. Argh. Wonder how

many unpaid interns in DC can afford to live anywhere on their own. Rhetorical question, of course.

Is there a scholarship program for the proles kids?

So many questions...

[Demobrat]

4. This is why rents and real estate prices are so high

in the Bay Area. The high tech firms pay so much that soon nobody but their employees will be able to live here. Landlords are desperate to force out long term tenants who are under rent control so that they can get their hands into the pockets of the techies. And the attitude of the techies is that anybody who isn't smart enough to make what they do should just move out and make room for them.