Training and Development Managers
What the pay figures show
- A job board will not tell you this about this job. The best headline number is Delaware, at $172,340. State taxes differ, so Washington leaves you more. Prices differ too, so Delaware leaves you better off again — $119,812 once levelled out. Moving for the biggest salary can leave you worse off.
- Wage data for training and development managers places Delaware first at $172,340. That position is not robust: state income tax alone reorders it to Washington, and regional price parity reorders it again to Delaware at $119,812. Because published comparisons almost universally stop at the nominal median, the state that appears best for this occupation is routinely not the state where a worker's income goes furthest.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$133,000
People doing it
48,050
Highest paid
$172,340
DE
Best off, really
$119,812
DE, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$79,550
Highest tenth
$233,600
Lowest, really
$74,977
HI
States with data
48
National average
$148,370
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
99.25%
DE, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Geography does a lot of the work in this job. Pay roughly doubles between the lowest state and the highest. Tax and prices narrow that gap. They come nowhere near closing it — the real range is still $74,977 up to $119,812.
- Only 48,050 people do this job in the whole country. It is a small field, so the pay figures rest on fewer reports.
- Some states are missing here. There are figures for 48 jurisdictions, averaging $133,000 in the middle. A blank means nobody published a number, not that the job pays nothing there. Delaware leads the published set.
- The nominal spread for training and development managers approaches a factor of two across states. Deflating for tax and price level compresses it substantially but leaves a real range of $74,977 to $119,812, indicating that most of the dispersion is real purchasing power rather than compensation for local costs.
- National employment in training and development managers is 48,050. ⚠️ At this headcount the state-level medians rest on comparatively thin samples, and year-to-year movement in any one state reflects sampling as much as wages.
- Coverage for training and development managers runs to 48 jurisdictions, short of the full set. The omitted states are suppressed at source; treat the spread above as the range across reported states rather than across the country.
Pay band: Training and Development Managers
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $79,550 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $133,000 |
| Top tenth earn over | $233,600 |
| This salary | $133,000 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Training and Development Managers
The national median for this job
$133,000around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $79,550 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $133,000 |
| Top tenth | $233,600 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Training and Development Managers, state by state
The national median for this job
48states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Mississippi · $88,030 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Delaware · $172,340 |
| Spread | $84,310 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $124,280 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $127,893 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| DE | $172,340 | $118,917 | $119,812 |
| WA | $163,360 | $122,923 | $113,228 |
| NY | $171,400 | $118,777 | $110,361 |
| SD | $124,150 | $96,123 | $109,112 |
| OH | $128,440 | $96,239 | $104,822 |
| AL | $128,750 | $93,976 | $104,452 |
| KS | $130,330 | $93,363 | $103,777 |
| NJ | $160,540 | $112,959 | $103,743 |
| NH | $141,360 | $107,886 | $102,412 |
| ID | $128,120 | $92,899 | $101,612 |
| TN | $121,030 | $93,975 | $101,578 |
| NM | $124,290 | $91,459 | $101,187 |
| CO | $139,980 | $101,492 | $100,108 |
| ND | $114,020 | $88,079 | $99,443 |
| CT | $145,070 | $102,967 | $99,304 |
| TX | $124,280 | $96,211 | $99,008 |
| GA | $132,120 | $95,576 | $98,839 |
| NC | $126,200 | $92,997 | $98,787 |
| VA | $137,520 | $98,114 | $97,385 |
| WI | $123,640 | $89,889 | $96,554 |
| CA | $156,260 | $107,630 | $95,602 |
| IL | $130,610 | $94,218 | $95,309 |
| MN | $131,680 | $93,765 | $95,274 |
| UT | $122,630 | $89,627 | $94,342 |
| SC | $119,460 | $87,612 | $94,028 |
| VT | $124,990 | $90,558 | $93,711 |
| AZ | $125,770 | $94,488 | $93,455 |
| PA | $122,150 | $91,006 | $93,339 |
| KY | $112,750 | $84,321 | $93,205 |
| MI | $118,630 | $87,495 | $92,898 |
| LA | $107,670 | $81,732 | $92,515 |
| IA | $108,330 | $81,535 | $91,853 |
| DC | $141,710 | $99,048 | $89,390 |
| AR | $101,830 | $77,158 | $89,192 |
| FL | $118,290 | $92,047 | $88,976 |
| MO | $109,250 | $81,490 | $88,806 |
| OK | $104,020 | $77,828 | $88,154 |
| NE | $105,710 | $79,091 | $87,513 |
| ME | $117,170 | $84,524 | $87,051 |
| IN | $105,130 | $79,717 | $86,476 |
| MD | $121,920 | $89,052 | $85,656 |
| RI | $116,590 | $86,666 | $85,459 |
| OR | $126,570 | $87,252 | $83,318 |
| MT | $98,950 | $74,212 | $82,234 |
| AK | $105,430 | $83,000 | $81,601 |
| NV | $99,110 | $78,554 | $81,000 |
| MS | $88,030 | $67,330 | $77,132 |
| HI | $113,400 | $81,432 | $74,977 |
Sources and assumptions
- These are middle-of-the-range figures for this job, not what a new starter is offered. Half the people doing this job earn under $133,000 nationally, half over. Your own experience and employer will move you well away from that midpoint in either direction.
- The take-home numbers here use the simplest possible household: one filer for this job, no children, no pension contributions, standard deduction. Real life usually reduces the tax bill below this. City and school-district income taxes are left out, and in Ohio or Pennsylvania that is a real omission. The best after-tax state here is Washington, at $122,923.
- One price figure per state stands behind the real-terms numbers for this job. Inside any state, a big city costs far more than a small town, so this is a fair way to compare states with each other and a poor way to price a specific move. The wage figures and the price figures are also from different years. At the bottom of the range sits Hawaii, on $74,977.
- All wage figures for training and development managers are medians rather than entry or offer rates; the national median is $133,000. Within-state dispersion typically exceeds between-state dispersion in this data, so an individual's expected wage is determined more by experience, sector and employer than by the state comparisons presented here.
- Retained-pay figures for training and development managers model a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax deferrals — deliberately the simplest household, so the comparison across states isolates geography rather than personal circumstances. Local income taxes are outside the model; Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland residents should expect a meaningfully lower figure than $122,923, which leads in Washington.
- Real-terms results for training and development managers rest on statewide regional price parities, which average over intra-state variation that is itself larger than much of the interstate variation. They support comparison between states and not the pricing of an individual relocation; Hawaii anchors the distribution at $74,977. Wage and price series are published on separate cycles and therefore carry different reference periods.