I am chiming in on this post late. A couple of comments regarding summer internship at Big 4 accounting firms.
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For summer internships, apply early (2 summers early) for each of the Big 4’s summer leadership program. The leadership program is a prelude to the summer internship and is about 2 days in the summer. It almost automatically leads an offer to an internship the following summer. Most summer internship offers are from the previous summer’s leadership program. The leadership and summer internship programs are very competitive, therefore apply early (S was accepted to 2 leadership programs from 2 Big 4 firms and had to choose 1 for the following year’s internship). The firms will wine and dine you to get commitment; and
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The summer salaries are competitive. Two summers ago, S made 4K per month with the Big 4 as a summer intern. His starting salary following the summer was about 54K per year. This was in a large city in the West Coast. Previous to the Big 4 summer internship, he had a summer internship with Amazon paying 3.8K per month (probably higher now). His offer from Amazon with bonus and stock options was > 100K. He chose to the Big 4 route.