You do get a stipend: https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/tech-writer-stipends https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/tech-write... It

You do get a stipend: https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/tech-writer-stipends https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/tech-write... It's not much, particularly as this seems to be out of the holiday season (Sep-Nov) which makes it hard for students. That said, in much of the world $2k a month (ie $24k pro rata) is a reasonable salary for writing documentation. There are worse paying graduate jobs.