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Internship budget

Estimate what remains before tax after living and moving costs.

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Use your offer and paid schedule. An unpaid placement can have a rate of 0.

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No current USD amounts with a stated pay period are available. You can enter a personal rate above.

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Your placement, on paper

Add 6 details to see what’s left after your costs.
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How the estimate works

Gross pay uses your entered rate, pay period, placement length, and paid hours where relevant. Monthly amounts use 52 weeks ÷ 12; partial months are prorated. Support and savings are added once. Living and one-time costs are subtracted.

The result is before taxes, benefits, deductions, overtime, or unpaid time. A positive balance is not take-home pay. Unknown inputs stay incomplete. Your category plan stays in this tab and clears on reload.

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Where the data comes from

Roles come from the current employer-source catalog release. Source times are preserved; expired availability is removed. Missing pay, eligibility, dates, or locations remain unknown. Open a role for its source and verification details. How our listings work.

Amounts clear when you reload or leave this page. Downloads are created only when you choose to export. No application is submitted by these tools.

How to use

Calculate your whole-internship budget

Estimate income and expenses for the full internship. Add pay, working hours, living costs, and moving expenses to see what remains before tax or how much extra funding you may need.

  1. Add pay and time

    Enter your planning rate, pay period and placement length. Hourly pay also needs your paid hours each week.

  2. Account for the full placement

    Add a monthly living amount or your category plan, moving costs and confirmed support or available savings.

  3. Explore the tradeoffs

    Select a waterfall bar to edit its input. Move the monthly-cost slider to see how spending changes your balance and break-even allowance.

Good to know

How does the calculator turn weeks into living costs?

It prorates monthly costs using weeks × 12 ÷ 52. For example, a 13-week placement uses three months of your entered monthly amount. Check your lease and billing dates because actual payments may not follow that schedule.

Is the balance my take-home pay?

No. Balance equals gross pay plus entered support, minus living and one-time costs. Taxes and other deductions are not calculated. A negative balance is a funding gap under the assumptions you entered.