{"id":294864,"date":"2026-05-29T07:04:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jthelander.com\/?p=294864"},"modified":"2026-05-29T07:04:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:04:01","slug":"internship-offers-private-company-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/?p=294864","title":{"rendered":"Internships Are Harder to Land Than Ever. Do You Know Your Worth?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/lifestyle\/careers\/internships-are-more-crucial-than-everand-even-harder-to-find-cbefc84a?eafs_enabled=false\">Wall Street Journal Article<\/a> published last month, they touched on how &#8220;internships are more crucial than ever &#8211; and even harder to find.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Internship postings are down 16% this year, according to early-career job platform <a href=\"https:\/\/joinhandshake.com\/\">Handshake<\/a>. Competition is up sharply \u2014 the average internship posting drew 109 applicants during the 2024\u201325 academic year, nearly double the number from two years prior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For students who do land a spot, the stakes at the end are higher than ever. Employer conversion of interns to full-time hires reached a five-year high of 63% in 2025, per the National Association of Colleges and Employers. That means the offer matters, and so does knowing whether it&#8217;s competitive and in line with market data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Private company compensation data is notoriously hard to find. Salary ranges posted online are often pulled from public company filings or self-reported aggregates that don&#8217;t reflect what private life science and tech companies <strong><em>actually<\/em><\/strong> pay. For students entering the private sector, that&#8217;s a real gap &#8211; and that&#8217;s without even touching on the equity component. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s where <a href=\"http:\/\/complander.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Complander<\/a> comes in. Built for entry-level to manager-level employees to benchmark, evaluate and understand the compensation at a privately held company. Real benchmarking data, specific to the private capital market. Free to start. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent Wall Street Journal Article published last month, they touched on how &#8220;internships are more crucial than ever &#8211; and even harder to find.&#8221; Internship postings are down 16% this year, according to early-career job platform Handshake. Competition is up sharply \u2014 the average internship posting drew 109 applicants during the 2024\u201325 academic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-294864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-complander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}