RANKED: The 15 tech companies that pay interns the most

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Interns are unflatteringly stereotyped as a lowly role — making coffee, photocopying for hours on end, and getting paid little more than expenses.

This definitely isn’t the case in Silicon Valley.

Internships at America’s top tier tech companies are highly prized, and the businesses compete fiercely with one another for the very best young engineering talent.

There’s no expenses-only or minimum wage salaries here. Many tech interns are paid upwards of $6,000 per month — far more than some people in other industries make with decades of experience under their belt.

Using data provided by Glassdoor, a site for reviewing employers, we’ve ranked the 15 highest-paying internships in the US technology industry today. Everyone from Google to Uber is included, but the number one spot goes to a company you might not expect. Check it out below.

Note: The figures listed are monthly salaries, for companies with 10 or more intern salaries submitted to Glassdoor within the last two years. The salaries listed are all for internships based in the US. Conversions into pounds have been provided, but the amounts paid by these companies to their interns in Britain — and elsewhere in the world — will likely vary from what is paid in the US.