One Wall Street firm is paying its interns $8,600 a week.

One Wall Street firm is paying its interns $8,600 a week. That's more than the average American makes in two months. Wall Street trading firm Susquehanna International Group is dangling an eye-popping offer of $8,600 a week for its masters and PhD student interns. That totals to $86,000 over the ten-week summer program. For those with a little less experience, such as in an undergraduate program, there are still internships available, but they pay $7,600 a week instead. Along with a high paycheck, interns get access to free housing, complimentary breakfast and lunch, and access to a bunch of events during their internship programs, such as poker nights, dinners, and sporting event outings. The intern pay is striking in comparison to the median US worker, who earned a little over $1,200 per week on average, meaning they would have to work nearly two months to earn what the Wall Street interns were earning in one week. Even with the high pay, Wall Street interns are known to have to face long hours and intense pressure from their firms, and companies like JPMorgan have faced backlash in recent years over the unhealthy working environment workers are enduring. For more on Susquehanna's hiring strategy, you can check out my full article on Fortune.com.