Engineering internships in the US, by the numbers
Of 551 engineering internships in the US in the last 30 days, only 397 said what they pay.
Measured over the 30 days to 28 August 2026 · 551 postings. Updated daily.
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Only 397 of 551 engineering internships said what they pay
the other 154 say nothing about pay at all
397 of 551
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103 internships had zero applicants when we found them
out of 304 that reported a count, and another 118 had fewer than ten
103 of 304
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14% of internships already had over 100 applicants
42 of 304 that reported a count — applying late is applying to a queue
42 of 304
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We list a new internship about 60 minutes after it goes up
median across 551 postings that carried a timestamp
60 of 551
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130 companies posted engineering internships
across 551 listings — the busiest was IBM with 38
130 of 551
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Python was asked for in 55% of engineering internships
303 of 551 listings named it, ahead of c++ (161) and Machine learning (95)
303 of 551
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Only 10% of engineering internships are remote
37 of 384 that stated a mode — 267 are on-site
37 of 384
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We turn away about 48 listings for every one we put on the board
26,308 refused of 28,312 cards seen — most are course sellers and unpaid "intern" schemes
26,308 of 28,312
How this was measured
We track engineering and software internships as they are published on public job boards and on companies' own careers pages, and record each one the first time we see it. These figures cover every posting we recorded in the US in the 30 days to 28 August 2026.
A posting only reaches the board if its employer is on a list we keep of companies we believe are real and actually pay interns. Most are not: we turned away about 48 listings for every one we published. That gate is the point of the site, and it is also the biggest thing to hold in mind when reading these numbers.
What these numbers are not
- This is not a census of every internship in the US. It is a census of the ones that got past the gate above, so it describes the market a student would actually want to apply to rather than the whole of it.
- “Said nothing about pay” does not mean unpaid. It means the posting did not state a figure we could read. A genuinely unpaid role and one that simply never mentioned money are indistinguishable here, and we do not guess between them.
- Applicant counts are frozen at the moment we found the posting. They are what the listing reported then, not now, which is the whole reason a low one is worth acting on quickly.
- Only what employers state is counted. Skills, duration and working arrangements are read from the posting text, so a requirement that goes unmentioned is missing rather than absent.
Using these figures
They are free to quote with a link to this page. Cite them as measured on 28 August 2026 — the page is regenerated daily, so the numbers move.