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In 2025, companies spent roughly ** hours on training per employee. Hours of training per employee has been fluctuating in the past nine years, reaching as high as ** hours of training per employee in 2021.

The training industry in the United States

Workplace training is the process of educating staff in the specific skills they need to perform the tasks required for their role. This can be developed and provided by in-house staff or by third-party training providers. Companies generally prefer to retain a high level of in-house control, though, with fully outsourced solutions for most training services being rare and unlikely to increase in the future. This means the majority of expenditure within the industry is directed to the payment of wages for in-house staff.

Training methods and expenditure

The recent decrease in training hours provided by smaller companies still allowed for increased expenditure per employee. Moreover, spending per employee decreases as company size increases. This trend likely reflects the greater capacity that larger companies have to invest in large scale and/or technological training solutions able to serve many employees simultaneously. For example, technological solutions such as online learning tools, once implemented, can provide training for a small or large number of employees at a similar overall cost. This hypothesis seems to be reflected in how large organizations make more use of virtual classrooms and less use of instructor-led classrooms as the sole method of training than small and midsize organizations.