An apprenticeship is a training program that organizations use to recruit and train (or retrain) people for long-term employment. There were 593,690 active registered apprentices and 241,849 new apprentices in the US in 2021, the latest available Labor Department data.
The department’s Office of Apprenticeships provides registered apprenticeships for workers seeking higher-skilled, higher-paying jobs. These are paid roles that combine supervised on-the-job training with job-related education. It also helps program sponsors for registered apprenticeships in private industry and education to create and implement programs across a range of sectors including healthcare, cybersecurity, information technology, transportation, financial services, advanced manufacturing, hospitality, telecommunications, construction, and energy.
