Companies Hiring Paid Interns in 2025

This article was originally written by The Muse Editors and was published on the muse.

Just starting out in your career journey? Internships can be a great way to build connections, gain valuable experience, and learn more about a possible career path. They can sometimes lead to full-time job offers. Below, The Muse has compiled a list of 13 top companies that are hiring interns in 2025—and they pay!

The featured employers cover a range of exciting industries, including financial services, biotech, insurance, and consumer goods. For example, you’ll find iRhythm Technologies, a leading digital healthcare company that creates solutions that detect, predict, and prevent disease, and Prudential—a financial services company with operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.

Before you apply, don’t forget to explore each company’s profile. You’ll be able to hear from real employees who discuss their experiences, the company culture, and more. Take for instance Grace B., the Global Head of Customer Integration at MarketAxess, who appreciates the company’s dedication to professional development and internal mobility. “MarketAxess has offered me the growth that I so desired, which I didn’t get in previous roles,” she says.

Keep scrolling to learn more about these companies and discover the internship that’s the right fit for you.

1. MarketAxess

MarketAxess welcomes our summer interns for a nine-week program comprised of training, team building, social events, group projects, and community service. The program divides the nine weeks into two, correlating with a midsummer review and an end-of-summer review to provide interns with timely feedback and updates on their progress. Ultimately, the goal is to get our interns to join us full time after graduation. In addition to their work, interns’ performance is assessed on our core values: collaboration, imagination, integrity, tenacity, agility, and transparency.

We at MarketAxess invest in our interns because we see them as the future of our business tomorrow. We focus on providing our interns with the best nine weeks possible with meaningful work, exposure to senior management, collaboration between our interns here in the U.S. and U.K., and events to foster a fun work culture while encouraging networking among different teams and leaders in the industry. Our internship program has been a great success, serving as a pipeline for our junior talent within our business. Notably, our incoming 2024 analyst class is 100% returning from their internship in 2023.

2. Prudential Financial

Unleash your potential with Prudential and PGIM’s 2025 Internship Programs! This is your opportunity to apply your knowledge in a real-world setting, learn from industry leaders, and build a solid foundation for your future. During the 10-week internship program, you’ll be immersed in a dynamic environment where innovation thrives, and where you can make a real impact. Spend the summer improving lives by helping solve our customers’ financial challenges. You can choose from a wide range of internships across all aspects of our organization. Don’t miss this chance to kick start your career— apply now!

3. iRhythm Technologies

Our people are dedicated, self-motivated, and driven to do the right thing for our patients, clinicians, and coworkers. At the same time, our leadership is focused, approachable, and committed to iRhythm’s employees and the mission of the company. We are better together, embrace change and help one another. We are Thinking Bigger and Moving Faster.

We focus on our people and our innovative technologies. We are passionate about improving and enhancing lives through better data and insights. We are continually developing a diverse and engaged workforce. We believe in the richness and quality of a working environment that is informed by people from all walks of life.

See our exciting opportunities and join us today!

4. CCC Intelligent Solutions

Our 12-week summer internship program is designed to jump-start your career! At CCC, you’ll work and learn alongside innovative, inspiring leaders and gain valuable experience working on real business solutions in a corporate setting. You’ll also be able to participate in unique events throughout the summer, from professional development workshops to Lunch and Learns with CCC colleagues and leaders.

5. Tradeweb

At Tradeweb, we’re constantly moving forward. We were the first to electronify the bond market, and we’ve been innovating ever since. Join our team and discover what it means to lead the way into the future of electronic trading. Collaborate with our creative thinkers who have the vision and drive, and learn how you can make an impact of your own.

As an intern, you’ll work with our technologists and business experts to gain practical, hands-on experience that you can actually use. Our program combines traditional classroom settings with project-based work where you can get involved with the products and services the firm is working on. Along the way, you’ll receive guidance from people at all levels of the organization so you can begin to build a long-lasting professional network. You’ll also be able to cultivate relationships with the intern class through interactive outings and projects.

6. Chick-fil-A, Inc.

The Chick-fil-A brand is known for its, particularly delicious, original chicken sandwich. Since its founding in 1967, the Company has led with its guiding principle of serving others. Today, Chick-fil-A, Inc. is focused on continuing to innovate using the latest technology to better serve and nourish the local communities in which the more than 3,000+ franchised restaurants are located.

This profile spotlights the Chick-fil-A headquarters (known as the Support Center). The Company believes that work should be full of life and that Corporate employees should be able to bring all of who they are to the task at hand. Chick-fil-A cares for its people and gives them the tools to take on meaningful work for the greater good.

7. Wells Fargo

Build a bright future with us. At Wells Fargo, we’re committed to nurturing the next generation of leaders through our world-class development programs. Our broad range of internship and full-time opportunities are designed to help you hone your skills, gain valuable experience, and build the foundation for a rewarding career. You’ll work with industry leaders on meaningful projects that will shape the future of financial services. We offer top-notch training, mentorship, and networking opportunities—all within an inclusive and supportive environment. Join us! wellsfargojobs.com/early-careers

8. Banfield Pet Hospital

As the leading provider of preventive veterinary care, Banfield is committed to delivering high-quality care to pets and sharing our data, insights, and best practices with the profession to help advance veterinary medicine. We are a practice powered by nearly 20,000 Associates – including 3,600 veterinarians – bonded together by our purpose: A Better World for Pets. Our culture of health & wellbeing and commitment to creating a more equitable, inclusive, and diverse profession drives our decision making as a company, so we can help create a brighter future for our people, pets, and society. Our work extends beyond hospital walls – we strive to do good every day by giving back to pets and the communities in which we live and serve.

9. CrowdStrike

At CrowdStrike, our mission is to stop breaches, and our purpose is a promise: to provide safety and security to some of the world’s largest, most influential companies and, by extension, the billions of people around the world who use their services. Our culture is built on the principles of innovation, autonomy, flexibility, and trust, and we foster a diverse, inclusive, and supportive work environment that enables our people to push the boundaries of what’s possible. We draw on the collective experience and deep cultural diversity of our workforce to refine our business model—and upend it completely, if need be. As a purpose-built remote-first company, we believe that cultivating a connected culture for every employee, no matter where they are in the world, is a key ingredient in building a high-performing organization.

10. Royal Caribbean Group

At Royal Caribbean Group, we care about creating unique vacation experiences for guests around the world. We’re committed to protecting the oceans our ships sail and the communities they visit, and providing an inclusive work environment that’s both exciting and rewarding. We’re proud to be included on Forbes’ list of World’s Best Employers for 2021, and we continuously strive to be better because our people matter. Their careers matter. Journey with us.

11. ZS

An experience with ZS means from day one you’ll be encouraged to bring fresh thinking and to co-create with industry-leading clients. Here you’ll work side-by-side with a powerful collective of thinkers and experts shaping solutions from start to finish. At ZS, we believe that making an impact demands a different approach; and that’s why here your ideas elevate actions, and here you’ll have the freedom to pursue cutting-edge work and define your own path. Work side-by-side with like-minded people who rise in care of humanity’s greatest challenges to define what’s next. Join us and find a path where your passion can change lives.

12. Hudson River Trading

HRT is looking for bright and motivated undergraduate or master’s students in a quantitative discipline (math, physics, computer science, statistics, or a related program) who are eligible for full-time roles in 2026. PhD internships are also available for 2026 or 2027 graduates. Across our global internships, students work on real projects in collaboration with experienced mentors and build their knowledge and skills through varied learning opportunities. From NYC to Singapore, interns can also look forward to a packed social calendar that takes advantage of all the city has to offer.

The Muse 2023 VIBE Awards Winner: Best Companies for Office Life and Perks and Health and Wellness Benefits

Here at The Muse, we partner with a lot of great companies to bring you insider looks at their offices and awesome job listings. These employers pay us to be featured on the site, but these Muse-worthy brands made this list not just because they want to be included, but because their culture, policies, and employee feedback showed us that they deserve to be.

By Alice Song
Alice Song Career Counselor