). For the most common workers, 75.6% of employers relied on someone within the firm to teach new employees how to perform their job. Another 14.2% reported using on-the-job training for their most common employee (see Table 2). As indicated in Table 3, 43.3% of the sample reported that it took their most skilled employee between 3 months and a year to get their skills to a satisfactory level while 35.4% of the sample indicated that it took their most common employee between 3 months and a year. Additionally, for 14.3% (most skilled sample) and 8.7% (most common sample) it took over a year for their employees to be fully prepared for the job. Finally, as indicated in Table 4, 35.4% of the most skilled sample indicated spending between $1,000 and $9,000 on training while 32.8% of the most common sample indicates spending a similar amount.