Most do. Of 32,195 live internship, co-op and apprenticeship listings UTern tracked on September 24, 2026, from 4,837 employers, 23,798 stated what they pay: about three in four. Employers are now far more likely to publish pay than an application deadline, and several states require a pay range in the posting.
"Is it paid?" is one of the first things any of us want to know about an internship, and for a long time it was weirdly hard to find out before applying. You'd get through a whole application, maybe an interview, and only then find out whether you could actually afford to take it.
That's changed. Most listings now just say.
What the listings show
On September 24, 2026, UTern's live catalog had 32,195 internship, co-op and apprenticeship listings from 4,837 employers, read directly from employer career pages and applicant tracking systems.
- 23,798 of them stated pay, about three in four.
- 1,711 stated an application deadline, about one in twenty.
So right now an employer is roughly fourteen times more likely to tell you what an internship pays than to tell you when applications close. (Which is its own reason to apply early, since most listings never say when they'll stop taking applications.)
A quick note on what these numbers are: they describe the listings UTern tracks, which lean toward employers that post on their own career sites and hiring systems. They're not a count of every internship in the country. But across thirty-two thousand live postings, the pattern is pretty clear.
You can browse only the internships that state their pay, or check the live counts on our internship statistics page.
Why more listings show pay now
Part of it is the law. Several U.S. states, including California, Colorado, New York and Washington, require employers to put a pay range in job postings, and some employers now publish ranges everywhere instead of only where they have to. Part of it is competition: when most listings show pay, the one that hides it stands out, and not in a good way.
How to read a posted range
- Hourly or salary? Internship pay is usually hourly. A full-time summer is roughly the hourly rate times 40 hours times the number of weeks.
- A range is a range. It tells you the ballpark. Where you land inside it can depend on location, team and year in school.
- Location matters. Many employers set different ranges by city. If a posting lists several, yours is the one for your office.
- Look past the hourly rate. Some programs add a housing stipend, relocation help or a travel allowance, and those can matter as much as the wage, especially if the job is in an expensive city.
When a listing doesn't say
About one in four listings didn't state pay. That doesn't mean they're unpaid. Plenty of paid roles just don't publish a number. It's completely normal to ask, and it doesn't make you look greedy. Once you're in the process, something like:
"Could you share the compensation for this internship, and whether it includes any housing or relocation support?"
If the answer is that it's unpaid, the rules for when that's actually legal at a for-profit company are narrower than a lot of people think. We covered them in Are Unpaid Internships Legal?.
What the full-time job pays
A different but useful question: what does the career you're working toward actually pay? Our internship statistics page includes wage benchmarks from U.S. Department of Labor filings. Those are full-time salaries for sponsored roles, not internship pay, but they show where all this is heading.
Where UTern fits
UTern shows pay on every listing that states it, lets you set a pay target and see how each role compares, and ranks internships against what you've actually done. It's free for students. Browse paid internships.