How much?! Snapchat interns earn $10,000 a month, twice the average US worker

Tech firms such as Snapchat, Pinterest and Twitter are paying summer interns as much as $10,000 a month plus benefits, double the average US national wage

Snapchat pays summer interns $10,000 a month plus $1,500 for housing, according to new survey data that highlights the jaw-droppingly high wages that Silicon Valley's top tech companies pay students for summer gigs.

The data, from former University of California Berkeley student Rodney Folz, comes from an anonymous survey of more than 500 college students who have landed highly coveted summer internships in tech, which are often engineering positions.