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Training and Development Specialists earn $69,280 a year at the midpoint

Where you land matters more here than in most jobs — the top tenth earn more than 3.2 times the bottom tenth. The midpoint is $69,280.

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$69,280median a year · United States
$33.31an hour $75,550average 458,300people
Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.
$50,11025th $69,280median $95,05075th
$38,76010th percentile $123,25090th percentile
$50,110a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job
$88,570best-paying state · Delaware
$52,290lowest-paying state · Arkansas
+28%top state against the national median
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  • What the figure counts. The figure counts base pay plus tips, commissions and production bonuses. It leaves out the self-employed, unpaid family workers, private household workers, and the value of benefits or profit sharing.
  • Where you live moves it more than your resume does. National figures. A state or metro area can sit far from the national number, and that gap is usually larger than any difference a resume makes.
  • Not in these numbers. Growth and annual openings are not in this dataset. They come from the separate Employment Projections tables, where an opening is a modelled ten year average and not a posted vacancy.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025. Retrieved through the BLS Public Data API on 2026-08-13. bls.gov/oes “BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.”

State matters a lotThe same job pays $88,570 in Delaware and $52,290 in Arkansas — a gap of $36,280 a year.

Training and development specialist earnings, from starting pay up to the top 10%

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Number 299 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 62% of the occupations in the survey.

  1. 297 Survey Researchers $69,460
  2. 298 Food Service Managers $69,390
  3. 299 Training and Development Specialists $69,280
  4. 300 Lodging Managers $69,250
  5. 301 Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other $68,990

Training and development specialist wages by state

The 37 states where the most people do this work, of 51 with a published figure: their medians range by 1.57 times. Figures are the 2025 survey.

State Median a year Where most start 10th to 90th Employed
Washington $81,860 $47,910 $47,910 — $135,800 8,130
District of Columbia $80,980 $38,570 $38,570 — $135,040 1,900
Massachusetts $80,270 $41,790 $41,790 — $129,670 12,190
Connecticut $78,080 $44,030 $44,030 — $137,040 3,650
Virginia $77,690 $41,870 $41,870 — $130,180 15,570
New Jersey $77,020 $36,570 $36,570 — $133,700 9,210
Minnesota $76,710 $50,470 $50,470 — $124,630 9,650
Maryland $76,370 $39,240 $39,240 — $128,610 9,800
Oregon $76,360 $49,500 $49,500 — $122,980 5,190
New York $76,080 $40,220 $40,220 — $133,620 27,460
California $75,790 $43,320 $43,320 — $134,270 46,530
Colorado $75,790 $37,490 $37,490 — $116,970 12,100
Florida $71,990 $38,370 $38,370 — $118,190 34,130
Pennsylvania $71,350 $45,040 $45,040 — $118,270 14,780
Wisconsin $70,770 $45,780 $45,780 — $105,650 9,360
Illinois $67,380 $39,430 $39,430 — $119,970 15,140
Georgia $67,320 $40,480 $40,480 — $120,180 16,200
Iowa $66,110 $42,370 $42,370 — $118,070 4,670
Nebraska $65,700 $46,430 $46,430 — $104,500 3,650
North Carolina $65,250 $33,170 $33,170 — $115,110 20,220
Ohio $64,780 $33,450 $33,450 — $108,030 17,690
Alabama $64,490 $39,690 $39,690 — $114,010 3,000
Michigan $64,350 $38,550 $38,550 — $106,250 10,640
South Carolina $63,070 $38,790 $38,790 — $116,210 6,960
New Mexico $62,900 $37,870 $37,870 — $111,990 2,190
Texas $62,860 $33,250 $33,250 — $113,870 46,630
Tennessee $62,280 $38,000 $38,000 — $116,280 9,370
Kansas $62,010 $41,640 $41,640 — $107,900 5,150
Idaho $61,720 $30,720 $30,720 — $102,600 2,430
Kentucky $61,390 $38,700 $38,700 — $103,690 6,090
Nevada $61,350 $40,510 $40,510 — $102,610 3,440
Indiana $61,050 $39,060 $39,060 — $101,520 8,450
Oklahoma $61,040 $31,550 $31,550 — $104,120 5,440
Utah $60,900 $38,000 $38,000 — $107,390 6,140
Louisiana $58,070 $39,240 $39,240 — $105,200 3,030
Mississippi $53,680 $38,110 $38,110 — $96,400 2,820
Arkansas $52,290 $29,490 $29,490 — $96,950 3,880

Adjacent work, and what it pays

Occupations in the same group of the federal classification — the usual next steps, or the ones beside this one.

Training and Development Specialists$69,280
Project Management Specialists$102,320+$33,040 Management Analysts$101,860+$32,580 Business Operations Specialists, All Other$83,050+$13,770 Agents and Business Managers of Artists, Performers, and Athletes$82,890+$13,610 Logisticians$82,320+$13,040 Compliance Officers$80,730+$11,450

A resume for training and development specialists

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  • Presented information with a variety of instructional techniques or formats, such as role playing, simulations, team exercises, group discussions, videos, or lectures.
  • Obtained, organized, or developed training procedure manuals, guides, or course materials, such as handouts or visual materials.
  • Evaluated modes of training delivery, such as in-person or virtual, to optimize training effectiveness, training costs, or environmental impacts.

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Training and development specialist pay rate, from hourly to yearly

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Questions people often ask

What is a training and development specialist’s yearly income?

A training and development specialist makes a median of $69,280 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $50,110 and $95,050.

What is a training and development specialist’s hourly pay rate?

The median pay rate is $33.31 an hour; the average is $75,550 a year.

What is the starting pay for a training and development specialist?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $50,110 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $38,760.

Which state pays training and development specialists the most?

Delaware, with a median of $88,570 a year.

How many people work as training and development specialists?

About 458,300 in the United States — number 299 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Work that pays roughly the same

Median pay within $440 of what training and development specialists earn — $69,280 a year — but not always the same spread.

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