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Are internship hourly pay rates for computer science majors higher at defense contractors or Silicon Valley tech firms right now?

ChatGPTgpt-61 query11/1/2026
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The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.

SEED QUERY
Are internship hourly pay rates for computer science majors higher at defense contractors or Silicon Valley tech firms right now?
1 real search · 1 real-search pass
2026 computer science software engineering intern hourly pay Silicon Valley tech companies internship salary hourly defense contractor intern pay rates comparisonGoogle ↗
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Query classes

Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.

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Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model).

Searches and sources

ChatGPT1 real searches · gpt-6
2026 computer science software engineering intern hourly pay Silicon Valley tech companies internship salary hourly defense contractor intern pay rates comparison Google ↗

Queries

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2026 computer science software engineering intern hourly pay Silicon Valley tech companies internship salary hourly defense contractor intern pay rates comparison
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