paid intern

Salaried learning position

A paid intern is someone in a temporary training position who receives wages, as opposed to the more common unpaid internship where workers gain experience but no compensation.

The term often carries slight irony, since paying interns was once standard practice: I was lucky enough to land a paid internship at the firm.

The modifier "paid" has become necessary as unpaid internships proliferated in competitive fields.

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