I am curious to know the general salary a decent intern would expect to make. I know some SF startups offer up to $7000 a month for interns, but other places don't go more than $3000. I am looking for companies both in the US and Canada.
From the intern side, when I have been paid (I had a three-year unpaid internship because it was the best job opportunity around), it's been between $8 and $25 an hour. The $8/hr was for other jobs in which I was also asked to do work that included software development. The $25/hr was way outside standard deviation; from reading the want ads and talking to other CS students, intern programmers usually make in the $14-$18 range. A real, non-intern job in IT paid me $16-$17/hr.