Summer Interns Earn More Than $25 an Hour in Highest-Paying Jobs

As artificial intelligence shakes up the job market, few career paths have been forecast to be in greater peril than software engineering. But employers are still investing top dollar in nascent software-engineering talent, offering among the most lucrative US summer internships of 2025.

Software engineering interns can expect to earn between $20 and almost $29 an hour, according to research from the job site ZipRecruiter. Other high-paying industries include architecture and financial advising.

Internship postings as a whole have increased by 13% year over year, bouncing back from a slump in 2024.

But the number of internship openings in New York, Washington and Chicago ...