Grad students teaching courses is, as with interns, a hybrid role that is both paid employment and professional training. And, as with interns, the pay is much

Grad students teaching courses is, as with interns, a hybrid role that is both paid employment and professional training. And, as with interns, the pay is much lower than an experienced industry veteran's salary [1] because part of the compensation comes in the form of experience, connections and resume-building. [1] There are two exceptions to the rule that interns don't get paid much: professional services and engineering. Both fields use internships almost exclusively as a recruiting tool and don't claim to provide any educational value.