Training Industry Statistics

Here are some interesting statistics from TRAINING.

• 2009 U.S. Training Expenditures (including payroll and spending on external products and services) was $52.2 billion (a 7% decrease from last year)
  
  
• 41% of organizations plan on purchasing online learning tools and systems in the next year.
  
  
• Payroll was $32.9 billion, about a $1 billion dollar overall loss from 2008.
  
  
• 47% of organizations surveyed reported a decrease in training budgets this year.
  
  
• Companies spent $1,036 per learner this year ($1,075 in 2008).
  
  
• Small companies (10-999 employees) spent about 33 hours of training per employee in 2009.
  
  
• Midsized (1,000 to 9,999 employees) spent about 29 hours of training per employee in 2009.
  
  
• Large (10,000 or more employees) spent about 33 hours of training per employee in 2009.
  
  
• 1.5% of companies are using social networking or mobile training methods.
  
  
• 47% of training hours are delivered by a stand-and-deliver instructor in a classroom setting.
  
  
• 18.5% use online or computer-based technologies for their training delivery.
  
  
• $306,178 was the average expenditure for training outsourcing
  
  

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