NY firm hiring interns who can pay $15/hr; truth behind Reverse Financed Internship [Fact check] A job listing from a New York-based firm asking interns to pay to work with them is going viral once again, but here's the truth. Delhi gets its own school education board A New York-based firm allegedly put up a listing for an internship where the intern is to pay $15 per hour to work for them. They called this the reverse financed internship. Working as an unpaid intern has been heard of and is quite common. However, a reverse internship, which mandates the employee, to pay to work at the company is rare. So rare that it is actually false.