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    Twenty-Five Highest Paying Companies for Interns 2014

    While the median household income in the U.S., according to the U.S. Census Bureau, is $53,046, several interns earn much more – $75,000+, assuming they were to work a full year. At a time when the income inequality debate continues, Glassdoor is revealing its report of the 25 highest paying companies for interns, to shed light on how much money some companies pay interns and to underscore the current competitive climate among employers for the best, new talent.

    San Francisco Bay Area-based employers dominate the list, representing 18 of the top 25 companies. In fact, the top three employers are tech companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area, including Palantir Technologies, ranking #1 with interns earning an average monthly base pay of $7,012, VMWare, ranking #2 with interns earning an average of $6,966 per month, and Twitter rounding out the top three with interns reporting an average monthly pay of $6,791. Plus, as the war for talent continues across all industries, we see that 19 of the 25 highest paying companies are within the technology sector, while four companies are within the oil, gas, energy & utilities sector.

    However, pay isn’t everything. According to a recent Glassdoor survey, interns report that when deciding on where to work, some factors most important to them include:

    • Career growth (77 percent)
    • Salary & compensation (74 percent)
    • Location & commute (41 percent)
    • Company culture and values (41 percent)

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    Click through for the top 25 paying companies for interns, as identified by Glassdoor.com.

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    Palantir

    Coming in first, Palantir pays an average monthly base pay of $7,012.

    Palantir Technologies is working to radically change how groups analyze information. It was founded in 2004 by a handful of PayPal alumni and Stanford computer scientists. Since then, it has doubled in size every year while retaining early-stage values: a startup culture, strong work ethic and rigorous hiring standards.

    It currently offers a suite of software applications for integrating, visualizing and analyzing the world’s information. It supports many kinds of data, including structured, unstructured, relational, temporal and geospatial.

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    VMware

    In second, VMWare pays an average monthly base pay of $6,966

    VMware is a leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. A pioneer in the use of virtualization and policy-driven automation technologies, VMware simplifies IT complexity across the entire data center to the virtual workplace, empowering customers with solutions in the software-defined data center to hybrid cloud computing and the mobile workspace.

    With 2013 revenues of $5.21 billion, VMware has more than 500,000 customers, 55,000 partners, and 14,000+ employees in 50+ locations around the world. At the core of what it does are the employees, who deeply value execution, passion, integrity, customers and community.

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    Twitter

    Twitter’s average monthly base pay of $6,791 lands it in third place.

    Twitter is a real-time information network that connects you to the latest stories, ideas, opinions and news about what you find interesting. Simply find the accounts you find most compelling and follow the conversations.

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    LinkedIn

    In fourth, LinkedIn pays an average monthly base pay of $6,230.

    Feeling a bit disconnected to the business world? LinkedIn wants to help. The firm operates an online professional network designed to help members find jobs, connect with other professoinals, and locate business opportunities. The site has grown to reach more than 259 million users in some 200 countries since its launch in 2003.

    LinkedIn is free to join; it offers a paid premium membership with additional tools, and sells advertising. It additionally earns revenue through its job listing service, which allows companies to post job openings and search for candidates on LinkedIn. Former CEO and current chairman Reid Hoffman co-founded the company, which filed to go public in 2011.

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    Facebook

    Facebook’s average monthly base pay of $6,213 lands it in fifth place.

    Facebook is the world’s largest social network with over one billion active users. As an employer, Facebook strives to hire the best people who want to move fast and make an impact. The company empowers people in every way it can to allow employees to focus on what they love to do. People around the world use Facebook everyday to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on, and to share and express what matters to them.

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    Microsoft

    Microsoft follows in sixth place with an average monthly base pay of $6,138.

    According to Microsoft, it is the ideal place for people who have passion for their work and the desire to make an impact — in their careers, in the community and on the world. Microsoft is a unique company, and not just within the tech industry. Here, smart people thrive on their own terms and push their intelligence to its limit. The variety of job opportunities and career advancement at Microsoft is incredible and empowers you to constantly challenge yourself and chart your own course.

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    Ebay

    In seventh place, Ebay pays an average monthly base pay of $6,126.

    eBay Inc. is a global commerce and payments leader, providing a robust platform where merchants of all sizes can compete and win. eBay Inc. connects millions of buyers and sellers and enabled $175 billion of commerce volume in 2012. They do so through eBay, one of the world’s largest online marketplaces, which allows users to buy and sell in nearly every country on earth; through PayPal, which enables individuals and businesses to securely, easily and quickly send and receive digital payments; and through eBay Enterprise, which enables omnichannel commerce, multichannel retailing and digital marketing for global enterprises in the U.S. and internationally.

    They also reach millions through specialized marketplaces such as StubHub, the world’s largest ticket marketplace, and eBay classifieds sites, which together have a presence in more than 1,000 cities around the world.

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    Exxon Mobile

    Exxon Mobile pays an average monthly base pay of $5,972, landing it in eighth place.

    It’s not necessarily the oil standard, but Exxon Mobil is the world’s largest integrated oil company (ahead of Royal Dutch Shell and BP). Exxon Mobil engages in oil and gas exploration, production, supply, transportation and marketing worldwide. In 2010, it reported proved reserves of 24.8 billion barrels of oil equivalent, as well as major holdings in oil sands through Imperial Oil. Exxon Mobil’s 36 refineries in 20 countries have a throughput capacity of almost 6.3 million barrels per day. The company supplies refined products to more than 26,000 gas stations in 100 countries. Exxon Mobil is also a major petrochemical producer.

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    Google

    Google follows in ninth place with an average monthly base pay of $5,969.

    According to Google, it is not a conventional company, and doesn’t intend to become one. Google knows that every employee has something important to say, and that every employee is integral to the company’s success. It provides individually tailored compensation packages that can be comprised of competitive salary, bonus and equity components, along with the opportunity to earn further financial bonuses and rewards.

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    Apple

    In tenth place, Apple pays an average monthly base pay of $5,723.

    Apple has an “i” for revolutionary technology. Since its release, the company’s iPhone has spurred a revolution in cell phones and mobile computing. It also continues to innovate its core Mac desktop and laptop computers, all of which feature its OS X operating system, including the iMac all-in-one desktop and MacBook portable for the consumer and education markets, and the high-end Mac Pro and MacBook Pro for consumers and professionals involved in design and publishing. Apple scored a runaway hit with its digital music players (iPod) and online music store (iTunes). Its iPad tablet computer has become another game-changer in the consumer market. Apple gets nearly 40 percent of sales from customers in the U.S.

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    Amazon

    Amazon.com pays an average monthly base pay of $5,631, landing it in eleventh place.

    What began as earth’s biggest bookstore has become earth’s biggest everything store. Expansion has propelled Amazon.com in innumerable directions. While the website still offers millions of books, movies, games, and music, electronics and other general merchandise categories, including apparel and accessories, auto parts, home furnishings, health and beauty aids, toys, and groceries ring up more than 50 percent of sales. Shoppers can also download e-books, games, MP3s and films to their computers or handheld devices, including Amazon’s own portable e-reader, the Kindle. Amazon also offers products and services, such as self-publishing, online advertising, e-commerce platform, hosting and a co-branded credit card.

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    NVIDIA

    NVIDIA follows in twelfth place with an average monthly base pay of $5,446.

    NVIDIA awakened the world to computer graphics when it invented the GPU in 1999. From its roots in visual computing, it has expanded into super, mobile and cloud computing. NVIDIA’s mobile processors are used in smartphones, tablets and auto infotainment systems. PC gamers rely on GPUs to enjoy spectacularly immersive worlds. Professionals use them to create visual effects in movies and design everything from golf clubs to jumbo jets. And researchers utilize GPUs to advance the frontiers of science with high-performance computers.

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    Chevron

    In thirteenth, Chevron pays an average monthly base pay of $5,424.

    Chevron Corporation is one of the world’s leading integrated energy and technology companies, with subsidiaries that conduct business worldwide under the Chevron, Texaco, and Caltex brands. The company’s success is driven by the ingenuity and commitment of its employees and their application of the most innovative technologies in the world. Chevron explores for, produces and transports crude oil and natural gas; refines, distributes and markets transportation fuels and other energy products; manufactures and sells lubricants, additives and petrochemical products; produces geothermal energy and coal, and generates electricity; provides energy efficiency solutions; and develops the energy resources of the future, including biofuels and other renewables.

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    Adobe

    Adobe pays an average monthly base pay of $5,409, landing it in fourteenth place.

    For more than two decades, Adobe has been at the heart of making engaging experiences happen, and it fuels the content creation and delivery ecosystem in a way no other technology company can. Whether it’s a smartphone or tablet app, a game, a video, a digital magazine, a website, or an online experience, chances are that it was touched by Adobe technology. Its tools and services enable customers to create groundbreaking digital content, deploy it across media and devices, and then continually measure and optimize it based on user data. By providing complete solutions that combine digital media creation with data-driven marketing, it helps businesses improve their communications, strengthen their brands, and ultimately achieve greater business success. Adobe’s business is focused on the opportunities in two key growth markets—digital media and digital marketing.

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    ConocoPhillips

    ConocoPhillips follows in fifteenth place with an average monthly base pay of $5,357.

    ConocoPhillips is one of the world’s largest independent exploration and production company, based on proved reserves and production of liquids and natural gas. It explores for, develops, and produces crude oil and natural gas globally. A commitment to safety, operating excellence and environmental stewardship guide its operations in 30 countries. Employees across the globe focus on fulfilling their core SPIRIT Values of safety, people, integrity, responsibility, innovation and teamwork. And they apply the characteristics that define leadership excellence in how they engage each other, collaborate with our teams, and drive the business.

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    Salesforce

    In sixteenth place, Salesforce pays an average monthly base pay of $5,158.

    Salesforce.com is the global leader in customer relationship management (CRM) software. It pioneered the shift to cloud computing, and today is delivering the next generation of social, mobile and cloud technologies that help companies revolutionize the way they sell, service, market and innovate–and become customer companies. It is the fastest growing of the top 10 enterprise software companies, the World’s Most Innovative Company according to Forbes, and one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For.

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    BlackRock

    BlackRock pays an average monthly base pay of $5,049, landing it in seventeenth place.

    BlackRock, with more than $3.5 trillion under management, is the world’s largest money manager. The firm specializes in equity and fixed-income products, as well as alternative and multi-class instruments, which it invests in on behalf of institutional and retail investors worldwide; it does not engage in proprietary trading. Clients include pension plans, governments, insurance companies, mutual funds, endowments, foundations and charities. BlackRock also provides risk management services through BlackRock Solutions and is a leading provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) through iShares. BlackRock has offices in some 25 countries.

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    Yahoo!

    Yahoo! follows in eighteenth place with an average monthly base pay of $5,039.

    Yahoo! wants to spread some cheer to Internet users around the world. Its network of websites offers news, entertainment and shopping, as well as search results powered by Microsoft’s Bing offering. Yahoo! generates most of its revenue through providing search and display advertising to Web operations in three categories: communications & communities (including Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Groups, and Flickr), search and marketplaces (Yahoo! Search), and media (Yahoo! Homepage, Yahoo! Finance, and Yahoo! Sports). Other revenues come from fee-based services such as premium email; royalties, licenses, and mobile products; and broadband Internet access. Yahoo! publishes content in about 25 languages.

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    Capital One

    In nineteenth place, Capital One pays an average monthly base pay of $4,850.

    Capital One isn’t just concerned with what’s in your wallet; it’s interested in your bank account as well. The company is best known as one of the largest issuers of Visa and MasterCard credit cards in the U.S., but it also boasts a banking network of approximately 1,000 branches, mainly in New York, New Jersey, Louisiana, and Texas; it expanded its franchise into the Washington, DC, market in 2009 by buying Chevy Chase Bank for some $475 million in cash and stock. Capital One, which serves approximately 45 million customers in the U.S., Canada, and the UK, also has units that offer auto financing, write home loans, sell insurance, and manage assets for institutional and high-net-worth clients.

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    Qualcomm

    Qualcomm pays an average monthly base pay of $4,823, landing it in twentieth place.

    From the way we communicate with people to the way we interact with the things around us, mobile changes everything. And Qualcomm is helping shape this new, connected world, engineering ground-breaking mobile chipsets and software, developing enabling technologies such as augmented reality, ad-hoc networking and context awareness, and creating solutions to tackle the growing demand for mobile data. For nearly three decades, Qualcomm ideas and inventions have driven the evolution of mobile, linking people everywhere more closely to information, entertainment and each other.

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    NetApp

    NetApp follows in twenty-first place with an average monthly base pay of $4,691.

    NetApp creates innovative products — storage systems and software that help customers around the world store, manage, protect, and retain one of their most precious corporate assets: their data. It is recognized throughout the industry for continually pushing the limits of today’s technology so that customers never have to choose between saving money and acquiring the capabilities they need to be successful.

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    Autodesk

    In twenty-second place, Autodesk pays an average monthly base pay of $4,684.

    As a global leader in 3-D design, engineering, and entertainment software, Autodesk helps people imagine, design, and create a better world. Autodesk offers an unparalleled depth of experience and a broad portfolio of software to give customers the power to solve their design, business, and environmental challenges. In addition to designers, architects, engineers, and media and entertainment professionals, Autodesk helps students, educators, and casual creators unlock their creative ideas through user-friendly applications.

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    Intel

    Intel pays an average monthly base pay of $4,648, landing it in twenty-third place.

    Intel never stops inventing the future because change is the essence of life. Employees are driven to be leaders in cutting edge technology solutions that will enrich the lives of every person on earth.

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    Juniper

    Juniper Networks follows with an average monthly base pay of $4,648, landing it in a tie with Intel.

    Juniper Networks is leading the charge to architecting the new network. At the heart of the new network is its promise to transform the economics and experience of networking for customers. It offers a high-performance network infrastructure built on simplicity, security, openness and scale. It is innovating in ways that empower customers, partners, and ultimately everyone in a connected world.

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    Schlumberger

    The last of the top 25, Schlumberger pays an average monthly base pay of $4,634.

    No sleeper, Schlumberger (pronounced SHLUM-ber-ZHAY) is one of the world’s largest oilfield services companies, along with Halliburton. It provides a full range of services, including seismic surveys, formation evaluation, drilling technologies and equipment, cementing, well construction and completion, and project management. Schlumberger also provides reservoir evaluation, development, and management services, and is developing new technologies for reservoir optimization. Through its WesternGeco business, the company provides seismic and other surveying services to customers worldwide. In 2010, Schlumberger acquired drilling services giant Smith International in deal valued at $11 billion.

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