How Much Do Employers Invest in Learning?

Organizations today face a range of employee development challenges that are only growing. Many skills are quickly becoming obsolete in the face of emergent technologies, while employers are also working to address numerous deficits of technical as well as soft skills. Diverse learning styles among employees and limited resources for employee development add additional layers of difficulty. 

These challenges provide opportunities for learning and development professionals to think carefully about what development budgets need to look like and where it makes the most sense to invest. In this article, APQC provides cross-industry data on learning budget per business entity employee, provides considerations that will help you benchmark this measure more effectively, and concludes with guidance about how to make your development dollars stretch further.