About Retraining Report

Retraining Report lists the job training programs that public workforce funding can pay for, with what each one costs and how past students did.

Why the list of fundable training programs is hard to use

Every state keeps a list of training programs approved for funding under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. If you lost your job, earn little or want to change careers, that funding can pay for a CDL course, CNA classes or a welding program.

The lists are public, and the US Department of Labor publishes how graduates of each program did. But the national file is a spreadsheet of 77,085 programs with coded fields and earnings per quarter. Someone working out how to get out of a bad job is unlikely to open it.

Retraining Report turns that file into pages you can read on a phone: one trade in one state or city, with the price if you pay yourself, how many students finished, how many were working six months later and what they earned. Each page also explains how to find out whether you qualify to have the training paid for.

Who makes Retraining Report

I'm Markus. I build websites, and I like taking data that is public but hard to find and hard to read, and putting it in front of the people who need it. I'm not a school, a recruiter or a government agency, and no school pays to be listed. If a figure looks wrong, tell me and I'll check it against the source.

Where the figures on Retraining Report come from

Every program and figure comes from the US Department of Labor's Eligible Training Provider data for program year 2024 (July 2024 to June 2025). Figures are shown as the states reported them. Where a state left a field empty, the page says "Not reported" instead of guessing. Facts about funding and financial aid link to official sources, numbered at the bottom of each page. The details are on where the numbers come from.