<prompt> Human: TL;DR: Have you noticed that trends in internship salaries closely reflect trends in full-time salaries? lower-paid interns become lower-paid full-timers, and vice versa Hi all,Im studying to become a mechanical engineer. Ive worked two internships at one of the major OG companies here in the U.S. I will be working my third and last one this coming summer. I started out making the lowest amount offered to interns since I came in as a freshman, and Ive moved up to what I suspect is a slightly lower-than-average intern salary as a junior. I dont know anything to be certain, but Ive asked other interns during our last week what their salaries were and Ive looked at Glassdoor. Both these sources have confirmed my suspicions of being slightly below average. Slightly 200-400 per month.My main question is, after working internships with a company, how did your full time offer reflect your internship salary? Im afraid that due to my lower internship salary, I may have lowered my earning potential since salary expectations have been lowered during my internships. What are your thoughts on this?Thanks in advance for providing your personal experience and opinions!  <response>: In theory, your salary stems from expectation of how you will perform. The expectations of intern and full time employees are often not really the same. That being said, they might expect you to take a lower salary. But of course, you can negotiate the salary. Id suggest doing some research at other comparable companies. Go through a few interviews and if you do get other offers, you can compare salary from there. I expect that it might come back in your companys initial offer, but that should be fairly easy to negotiate away. 