^depends on your location then
I've interned at an IT too and they not only paid for transportation, food and money left over they also took us out to lunches, brought us beer, cake, etc for birthdays..very relaxed for sure, the head of the company brought a fancy chair, not thousands mind you just under one, because the one that was supplied wasn't as comfortable, he has the exact one at home.
his startup is well funded but since a lot of it is from his pocket he has a certain amount that he's willing to pay programmers and I've seen quite a few walk out because the salary he was offering wasn't high enough. if I got a couple hundred a month just for sitting down doing some light paper work for a few hours a week..I got to choose when I go in and when I want to leave as well as how long of a lunch I wanted, I got paid regardless
I can't imagine how much he offered an actual programmer suffice to say
in SF if you are a programmer you get your pick
in fact, a programmer to be (current attending school in Uni of TO, Canada) is in SF for this summer, 3 months, interning only mind you
guess how much his contract states he gets from twitter? 18k
not bad
there are also active IT recruiters in sf, met one in jury duty