State of the Industry Report Shows Healthy Growth in Learning Spending

The Association for Talent Development's 2017 State of the Industry report reveals that, in 2016, organizations on average had a direct learning expenditure of $1,273 per employee. That represents an increase from 2015, when the spending per employee was $1,252. In 2014, it was $1,229. A total of 299 organizations of all sizes representing a wide variety of industries and countries contributed learning data from fiscal or calendar year 2016 to the 2017 report.