????如果經歷過暑期實習，你就會知道，實習生的工資非常低（如果給工資的話）。沒關系，因為實習的目的更多是為了積累經驗，而不是賺錢。整體上這種情形目前沒有多大改變：據美國大學和雇主協會（National Association of Colleges and Employers，NACE）報告，今年美國本科實習生的平均薪資在每小時16美元左右，也就是每月2,500美元。

????然而，有些公司給的薪酬要大大高于這一數字。比如：根據職場社區Glassdoor最近發布的“美國薪資最高實習工作”榜單，大數據分析軟件公司Palantir（名字取自《指環王》三部曲中的魔法石“視眼石”）的暑期實習生平均每月可掙得7,012美元，換成年薪略高于84,000美元。考慮到美國的家庭收入中位數現在是53,046美元， 84,000美元這個數字一點也不寒磣。

????Twitter的實習生工資也不低，每月有6,791美元；商務社交網站LinkedIn、社交網站Facebook、微軟（Microsoft）及網上交易平臺eBay給實習生的平均月薪都在6,000美元以上。谷歌（Google）和蘋果（Apple）緊跟其后，分別是5,969美元和5,723美元。Glassdoor榜單中的大部分公司都是發達的科技公司，但即使是排在榜單最后的石油勘探巨頭斯倫貝謝（Schlumberger）也計劃給實習生支付4,634美元的月薪。

????“絕大多數雇主無法給實習生支付這么高的薪資，”Glassdoor人力資源副總裁艾利森?威洛比說。但大多數公司其實也不是一定要這么干。Glassdoor對實習生的采訪顯示，他們所看重的唯一比薪酬更重要的東西是“實踐經驗”。每10個實習生中就有8個人表示，這一點比高薪更重要。

????“實習生不希望只是端端咖啡，他們希望雇主給他們安排實質性的工作”，威洛比說。“這需要事先進行大量的考量”——包括在實習結束時對實習生的工作進行評估，“他們很想得到如實的績效考評，這樣他們會知道自己的真實表現到底如何。”

????如果無法支付高薪，還有什么方法可以吸引優秀人才呢？一個零成本的方法可以讓實習項目更具吸引力，那就是提高“透明性”。威洛比說：“這樣的經驗可以讓實習生真切體驗到在某個公司實際工作的情形。”

????在某種程度上，這也是非常實用的。暑期實習生同時也是一大批潛在的雇員：NACE報告說，約60%的雇主會在實習生畢業后給他們提供全職工作。同時，它也關系到公平性。通過實習，實習生可以提前了解他們將要進入的工作場所究竟是什么樣的。身為一名訓練有素的律師，威洛比覺得她暑期實習過的律師事務所 “好像整天都在狂歡——根本不像是在工作”。

????相比之下，“那些為實習崗位提供頂級薪酬的科技公司對招進團隊的實習生要求很高。它在一定程度上是為了剔除那些不愿意一周7天、一天24小時工作的員工。”

????Glassdoor的調查結果同樣顯示，實習生希望能與公司高管有所接觸，或至少能有機會與主管人員見見面，問幾個問題。科技公司，特別是規模較小的科技公司之所以大受歡迎，威洛比認為，很大程度上是因為“實習生知道，至少在某些時候，他們可以與公司決策人一起共事。”

????“大型公司則很難創造這樣的機會，”她補充說。“但是，公司高層親自參與的程度越高，實習項目就越能吸引到優秀的實習生”——甚至是那種沒準哪天就躋身高管層的優秀實習生。（財富中文網）

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????If you ever worked as a summer intern, you probably earned a pittance (if you were paid at all). And that was okay, because you were doing it mostly for the experience, right? On the whole, that hasn't changed much: The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) reports that the average undergraduate intern in the U.S. will earn around $16 an hour, or $2,500 a month, this year.

????Some, however, will pull down a lot more. Consider: Summer help at big-data-analysis software firm Palantir (it's named after a magic stone in the Lord of the Rings trilogy) will make an average of $7,012 per month, or a little over $84,000 on an annualized basis, according to a recent list of the top-paying U.S. internships by career site Glassdoor. That's not too shabby, considering that median household income in the U.S. now stands at $53,046.

????Twitter (TWTR) interns will do pretty well too, at $6,791 per month, while LinkedIn (LNKD), Facebook (FB), Microsoft (MSFT), and eBay (EBAY) are all offering average monthly pay over $6,000. Google (GOOG) and Apple (AAPL) come close, at $5,969 and $5,723. Most of the companies that made Glassdoor's list are high-flying tech companies, but even oil exploration giant Schlumberger, last in the ranking, plans to pay its interns a monthly stipend of $4,634.

????"The vast majority of employers can't pay interns anything close to these figures," notes Allison Willoughby, senior vice president of people at Glassdoor. But most companies don't have to. Glassdoor's surveys of interns themselves show that the only thing that matters more than money is "real world experience," which eight out of 10 interns said was more important to them than the size of their paycheck.

????"Interns do not want to be fetching coffee. They want employers to give them substantive work to do," Willoughby says. "It takes a lot of thought beforehand" -- including a plan for evaluating the kids' work when the internship ends: "They really want an honest performance appraisal, so they know how they did."

????What else does it take to recruit topnotch talent when you can't pay top dollar? One cost-free feature of an attractive internship program is "transparency," Willoughby says. "The experience has to give people a true taste of what it would be like to work there."

????That's partly just practical. Summer workers are a big pool of potential new hires: NACE reports that almost 60% of employers offer full-time jobs to their interns after graduation. But it's also a matter of fairness, so that interns can see what they might be getting into.A lawyer by training, Willoughby did her share of summer stints at law firms "where it was all parties all the time -- not at all what a real job there would be like," she says.

????By contrast, "some tech companies that offer the highest-paying internships are going to demand a lot of the interns they bring on board. It's partly a way of screening out anybody who doesn't want to work 24/7."

????Glassdoor's surveys show, too, that interns want contact with top management, or at least a chance to meet the people in charge and maybe even ask a few questions. Tech companies, especially those that are still relatively small, are appealing in large part because "interns know that they'll be working side by side with decision makers, at least some of the time," notes Willoughby.

????"It can be tough to replicate that in a huge organization," she adds. "But the more hands-on and involved senior people can be, the better the chances of attracting great interns" -- the kind that may be sitting in the C-suite themselves someday.