1995 Survey of Employer-Provided Training – Employer Results — 1996-12-19

Employees who work in establishments with 50 or more workers received an average of 44.5 hours of training in the period May-October 1995, according to a survey of employees conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor. Of these total training hours, 70 percent, or 31.1 hours, were spent receiving informal training, while 13.4 hours were in formal training. The survey also found that in the May-October 1995 period, an estimated $647 per employee was spent on wage and salary costs of training, with about 65 percent of the amount spent on informal training. The 1995 Survey of Employer-Provided Training (SEPT95) was sponsored by the Employment Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor and involved two major components: (1) a survey of establishments and (2) a survey of randomly-selected employees in the surveyed establishments.