There’s a fine line between intern and internment at many companies, where the only salary offered is a foot in the door. The average paid intern fares considerably better, earning between $2,400 and $3,100 a month (the equivalent of a $28,000 to $37,200 annual salary) — that’s well over the minimum wage of roughly $1,250 a month. However, those lucky enough to score one of the top 10 highest paid internships in the country earn more than the median household income of $53,046, according to a new survey released by career website Glassdoor. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, they are all technology companies. Amazon doesn’t make the Top 10 list but comes in at a respectable No. 11 with the equivalent of a $67,572 annual salary.

For the lucky few, here are the annualized wages for the top 10 most overpaid internships in the country:

— By Quentin Fottrell

Palantir

Palantir: $84,144

Believe this, if you can: “Very few people are there just for money,” one intern told Glassdoor after working at this Palo Alto, Calif.-based software company that specializes in government contracts. Unlike many companies on the Top 10 list, it isn’t exactly a household name. But it does have a relatively solid customer base.

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VMware: $83,592

Never heard of VMware VMW, -0.14% ? Being No. 2 on the best-paid list should help make up for the fact that this Palo Alto company is not exactly as well-known as Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook. That—and the fact that it’s a software company that is a major player in cloud computing, one of the biggest growth areas online.

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Twitter: $81,492

One reason to land a job at Twitter: The micro-blogging giant had a successful IPO last November, so it’s flush with new money and evolving at a brisk clip. Describing the experience working here in 140-characters or less, one intern wrote, “You can have a say in virtually all company decisions, you will be generously compensated.”

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LinkedIn: $75,840

Where better to start schmoozing than landing an internship in the most popular professional networking site—and getting the powers-that-be at LinkedIn US:LNKD to endorse your skills in person? Plus, it works both ways: Interns endorsed the professional social-networking site with the following skill: “recognizable brand value.”

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Facebook: $74,556

Though they are paupers compared with CEO Mark Zuckerberg, interns here say they’re quite happy to work a stone’s throw from the man who created the social network in his college dorm room. Culturally, it could be a smooth transition. Facebook FB, -0.89% is planning a $120 million campus that’s been likened to a college campus.

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Microsoft: $73,656

This is a time of upheaval and change at Microsoft MSFT, -1.24% . After replacing its longtime CEO Steve Ballmer with company veteran Satya Nadella, 2014 could be the right year to make an impression at the Redmond, Wash.-based company. Problem No. 1: How to make Surface Tablet a smash hit. That may be Problem No. 2 and 3, too.

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eBay: $73,656

eBay EBAY, -0.06% does for interns what it does for all those unworn Issey Miyake and Vivienne Westwood metallic jackets from the 1980s and 1990s: It gives them a chance to be seen and appreciated. Interns at the San Jose, Calif. online auction and e-commerce site said they were given “good visibility to senior level managers.”

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Exxon Mobil: $71,664

It’s probably not the first place most millennials think of working. Let’s face it, it isn’t the sexiest company on the list. It also reported a 27% drop in profit for its most recent quarter. But interns at the Irving, Texas-based oil company XOM, -1.61% say that having a Fortune 500 company on their résumé is worth more than an unknown start-up.

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Google: $71,628

The biggest search engine on the planet might be the first and last Web page college graduates open when they look for an internship. One New York intern told Glassdoor that Google GOOG, -2.37% paid for his accommodations. Small tip: Don’t email your application from your Yahoo or Hotmail account.

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Apple: $68,676