ASTD estimates that U.S. organizations spent **$134.1 billion** on employee learning and development in 2008. Nearly two-thirds of the U.S. total ($88.6 billion) was spent on the internal learning function, such as staff salaries and internal development costs. The remainder ($45.6 billion) was allocated to external services such as workshops, vendors and external events. These types of informative statistics appear in ASTDs annual **_State of the Industry Report_.** The report is ASTDs annual review of trends in workplace learning and performance and includes data from ASTD BEST Awards Winners, ASTD Benchmarking Forum Members and other organizations from 2001 to date. **\[PDF download version\]** **Authors:** Andrew Paradise & Laleh Patel Product SKU: 790901 ISBN: 978-1-60728-360-7 Pages: 35 pages Publisher: ASTD Pub Date: 2009