Training and Development Specialists salary

SOC 13-1151 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$69,280

per year, nationally

Middle half

$50,110–$95,050

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

458,300

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+10.8%

43,900 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$38,760$123,250

10th: $38,760
25th: $50,110
Median: $69,280
75th: $95,050
90th: $123,250

Getting in

Typical education to enter: Bachelor's degree
Related work experience: Less than 5 years
On-the-job training: None

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where training and development specialists earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Delaware	$88,570	99.8	1,590	1.11×
2	New Hampshire	$86,050	104.2	—	—
3	Alaska	$81,860	102.4	530	0.55×
4	Washington	$81,860	107.0	8,130	0.78×
5	District of Columbia	$80,980	109.9	1,900	0.92×
6	Massachusetts	$80,270	105.8	12,190	1.14×
7	Connecticut	$78,080	103.6	3,650	0.73×
8	Vermont	$77,800	98.0	750	0.84×
9	Virginia	$77,690	101.1	15,570	1.29×
10	New Jersey	$77,020	108.8	9,210	0.73×
11	Minnesota	$76,710	98.6	9,650	1.11×
12	Maryland	$76,370	105.0	9,800	1.20×
13	Oregon	$76,360	103.4	5,190	0.90×
14	New York	$76,080	107.9	27,460	0.96×
15	Rhode Island	$75,910	102.3	1,130	0.77×
16	California	$75,790	110.7	46,530	0.87×
17	Colorado	$75,790	103.1	12,100	1.43×
18	Florida	$71,990	103.4	34,130	1.17×
19	Pennsylvania	$71,350	97.6	14,780	0.83×
20	Wisconsin	$70,770	94.1	9,360	1.08×
21	Wyoming	$69,380	92.7	550	0.67×
22	Illinois	$67,380	100.0	15,140	0.84×
23	Georgia	$67,320	96.3	16,200	1.12×
24	Arizona	$67,140	100.7	—	—
25	Iowa	$66,110	87.8	4,670	1.02×
26	Nebraska	$65,700	90.1	3,650	1.21×
27	Maine	$65,680	97.0	1,600	0.85×
28	North Carolina	$65,250	94.3	20,220	1.39×
29	West Virginia	$64,960	89.5	1,710	0.83×
30	Ohio	$64,780	92.8	17,690	1.08×
31	Alabama	$64,490	88.8	3,000	0.48×
32	Michigan	$64,350	96.2	10,640	0.82×
33	North Dakota	$63,260	89.0	670	0.53×
34	South Carolina	$63,070	93.7	6,960	1.03×
35	New Mexico	$62,900	92.2	2,190	0.85×
36	Montana	$62,880	94.6	900	0.59×
37	Texas	$62,860	97.1	46,630	1.12×
38	Tennessee	$62,280	91.9	9,370	0.97×
39	Kansas	$62,010	90.1	5,150	1.22×
40	Idaho	$61,720	95.5	2,430	0.96×
41	South Dakota	$61,570	88.6	520	0.39×
42	Kentucky	$61,390	90.2	6,090	1.03×
43	Nevada	$61,350	100.0	3,440	0.75×
44	Indiana	$61,050	93.3	8,450	0.90×
45	Oklahoma	$61,040	87.8	5,440	1.08×
46	Hawaii	$60,960	110.0	1,200	0.65×
47	Utah	$60,900	98.9	6,140	1.20×
48	Missouri	$58,670	90.8	—	—
49	Louisiana	$58,070	88.2	3,030	0.53×
50	Mississippi	$53,680	87.0	2,820	0.82×
51	Arkansas	$52,290	86.9	3,880	1.01×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where training and development specialists wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for training and development specialists

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Dothan, AL	$120,020	83.8	120	0.65×
2	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$104,770	110.4	3,310	0.99×
3	Kennewick-Richland, WA	$98,280	100.1	330	0.88×
4	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$95,050	115.6	6,310	0.90×
5	Lexington Park, MD	$94,440	100.8	220	1.08×
6	Casper, WY	$94,070	93.8	100	0.83×
7	Decatur, AL	$93,230	87.2	110	0.59×
8	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$89,550	111.1	5,120	0.83×
9	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$88,880	106.9	620	0.52×
10	Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ	$85,610	89.2	—	—
11	Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT	$85,320	100.4	320	0.87×
12	Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA	$84,500	103.7	400	1.04×
13	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$83,800	108.3	9,360	1.17×
14	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$82,590	105.6	120	0.44×
15	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$82,400	108.9	11,490	1.24×
16	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$82,070	103.2	740	1.04×
17	Lake Charles, LA	$80,550	85.9	120	0.41×
18	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$79,840	112.6	22,190	0.79×
19	Carson City, NV	$79,620	98.1	70	0.75×
20	Boulder, CO	$79,420	105.2	720	1.27×
21	Parkersburg-Vienna, WV	$79,290	87.1	70	0.64×
22	Anchorage, AK	$79,270	105.4	320	0.61×
23	Salem, OR	$79,190	103.6	840	1.51×
24	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$79,000	105.8	7,660	1.61×
25	Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL	$78,980	97.0	320	0.88×
26	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$78,940	102.7	1,380	0.78×
27	Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC	$78,610	91.9	830	1.21×
28	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$78,430	104.8	6,580	1.14×
29	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$78,220	104.5	4,360	1.09×
30	Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	$78,200	102.4	90	0.56×
31	New Haven, CT	$78,080	104.6	600	0.73×
32	Burlington-South Burlington, VT	$77,800	100.9	370	1.04×
33	Madison, WI	$77,500	97.3	1,380	1.15×
34	Charlottesville, VA	$77,450	99.1	340	1.01×
35	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	$77,400	109.9	280	0.96×
36	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$77,000	105.4	3,210	0.90×
37	Peoria, IL	$76,880	91.2	360	0.73×
38	Corvallis, OR	$76,770	104.0	80	0.74×
39	Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH	$76,770	89.0	90	0.88×
40	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$76,710	102.6	7,980	0.93×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where training and development specialists wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Similar occupations

Other jobs in the same field, with what each pays nationally.

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Management Analysts$101,860
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Compliance Officers$80,730
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Training and Development Specialists salary

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