Planning Your L&D Hiring for Next Year? Start With Skills, Salary Ranges, and Realistic Expectations — from teamedforlearning.com
Salary transparency laws across many states now require organizations to publish compensation ranges. While this can feel like a burden, the truth is: transparency can dramatically speed up hiring. Candidates self-select, mismatches decrease, and teams save time.
But transparency only works when the salary range itself is grounded in reality. And that’s where many organizations struggle.
Posting a salary range is the easy part.
Determining a fair, defensible range is where the work happens.
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Hiring Trends For 2026
The learning industry shifts fast, and this year is no exception. Here’s what’s shaping the hiring landscape right now:
- AI is now a core skill, not a bonus
- Project management is showing up in every job description
- Generalists with business awareness are beating tool-heavy candidates
- Universities and edtech companies are speeding up content refresh cycles
- Hiring budgets are tight – but expectations aren’t easing up