1995 Survey of Employer-Provided Training – Employee Results — 1996-07-10

Employees in establishments with 50 or more workers received an average of 10.7 hours of formal training in May through October 1995, according to a survey of employers conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor. The number of formal training activities averaged 2.1 per employee during this 6-month period. The survey, sponsored by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor, measured three different aspects of training. The first, the average number of hours of training per employee, and the second, the average number of training activities per employee, were measured for the May-October 1995 period. The third, which measured expenditures per employee in four selected spending categories, was reported for the 1994 calendar year.