Two in three interns make less than ₹10,000 ($134) a month in India, a LinkedIn News poll finds. 26% of the respondents said that most employers don’t pay interns at all. Things seem much better at tech multinationals. According to a report in the Times of India last year, companies like Cisco, Amazon and Google pay interns nearly ₹50,000 a month. Samsung R&D, Nvidia, Goldman Sachs, IBM, Texas Instruments and Oracle pay over ₹30,000 a month, the report said.
Employers who don’t want to – or can’t – pay interns, justify unpaid internships as a way to earn your stripes and catalyze your career, LinkedIn editors say.
Stipends also depend on the institutions interns come from – the gulf is wide between interns from tier 1 colleges compared to those from other colleges
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