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Intern tech sales pay

Hey I'm competing for a role at 2 cyber security company's as an SDR intern,  and they asked me how much $$$ I want in the internship offer. Both of these are just an hourly rate. Any number would be great I'm aiming for 25+ since I'm in Dallas Texas 

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Seed 5 Mill: I have 7 months of previous exp Sales/marketing at a Fintech startup 
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poweredbycaffeine
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Consider what they pay their SDRs full time as salaries. Don’t ask for more than that. Therefore, $25/hr may be out of the question.

Do you have any data on that?
Jaytea
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N/A
If I made 25 an hour and I work regular 40 hour weeks I would make 48k. That is barely the base for the average SDR 😂. I’m being pretty sure it’s acceptable repvue average is 83k let’s take 6 k off cause it’s DTX it’s now 77k. I think they are getting a steal imo I was in an interview where they listed the pay as 35/hr + 100 dollar food stipend/ week + paid phone bill + “health and wellness” 100 every week as an SDR.
poweredbycaffeine
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Is that OTE or Base for an SDR role at 83k?
poweredbycaffeine
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Seems like Base is an average of $54k with 0-1 years experience. Sounds like $25/hr is right on.
Jaytea
Catalyst
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Yeah they are doing hourly rates I’m really just prospecting
Kosta_Konfucius
Politicker
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Sales Rep
Ask them what do they have in budget?

When I was looking for internships, I believe the most important thing is gaining that experience and have something in the resume.

So its more important to not price yourself out, even more so when there are not many companies that hire intern SDRs....at least I don't know of many
Jaytea
Catalyst
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N/A
Agreed but both are the same pretty much so I’ll take either one tbh.
detectivegibbles
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Sales Director
I'd say context is key. Don't toss a number that'll get you laughed at.

Have they had interns prior? Can you ask what they were paid?
Jaytea
Catalyst
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N/A
Also my Bad they are both series B startups so they are in good shape. I’ll ask them about budgets tbh and see if we can work in their range. Both of them will give me great sales experience using Salesforce outreach etc to learning different strategies. They are both remote and I like both teams.
Diablo
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Sr. AE
Be smart, get clarity on how much they are willing to pay and accordingly play around. Remember you might not be the only one in the race :)
HVACexpert
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sales engineer
Jesus. Interns are getting paid 25$/hr now?!
poweredbycaffeine
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I got paid with pizza and anxiety.
HVACexpert
Politicker
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sales engineer
You got paid?!?!
poweredbycaffeine
WR Lieutenant
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I worked at a ski resort as a marketing intern. I did the 4:30am ski report and my boss bought me two slices and a monster every day. The pizza was sooooo good. Then he would drop a content deadline on me and I figured out Final Cut Pro in 30 minutes and became the video guy.
HVACexpert
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sales engineer
Haha awesome! I poured concrete a couple summers, was good money. But getting up at 5am and working hard labor for 10 hours wasn’t really my cup of tea
RandyLahey
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Account Executive
Can you find other interns, possibly, on LinkedIn that are in the same role? They may be able to get you a gauge.
Jaytea
Catalyst
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N/A
They didn’t accept my inv :(
RandyLahey
Politicker
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Account Executive
Keep at it!
Jaytea
Catalyst
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N/A
Screw it bois I asked for 24-30 hr for my option I didn’t want as much wish me luck
Maximas
Tycoon
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Senior Sales Executive
Ask back, what's the best you could get me and just try to keep at around the 25$/h range let's say(20-24), if they couldn't do the full 25.
Much of luck.

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