Learning Statistics from ASTD 2009 State of the Industry Report

ASTD, recently released their State of the Industry Report. Here are a few highlights.

• US organizations spent $134.07 billion on employee learning and development in 2008.
  
• $88.59 billion was spent on the internal learning function
  
• $45.48 billion was allocated to external services
  
• Average annual expenditure per employee fell 3.8% from 2007 to $1,068
  
• The figure for learning expenditure as a percentage of payroll was 2.24% a small increase from 2007.
  
• The average number of employees per learning staff member was 253

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