Number of Amazon Employees (2024)
As Amazon continues to grow as a multinational company, so has its workforce.
Today, millions of people use Amazon every day, but how many are employed by the American conglomerate?
We’ll explore that, and much more, below:
Contents
- Top Amazon Employees Statistics
- How Many Amazon Employees Are There?
- Number of Amazon Employees Over Time (Annually)
- Number of Amazon Employees Over Time (Monthly)
- Amazon Workforce by Gender
- Amazon Workforce by Ethnicity
- Amazon Workforce by Role
- Amazon Workforce by Age
Top Amazon Employees Statistics
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Amazon employs over 1.54 million people
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Since 2007, Amazon’s personnel has expanded by over 90x
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Over half (56.8%) of Amazon’s workforce is male
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About 1/3rd (31.9%) of Amazon employees are White
How Many Amazon Employees Are There?
According to Amazon’s latest Annual Report, Amazon employs approximately 1,541,000 full-time and part-time employees.
Number of Amazon Employees Over Time (Annually)
Over the last 15 years, the number of Amazon employees has grown at an increasing rate:
Between 2007 and 2012, the number of Amazon employees increased by 71,400.
Whereas between 2012 and 2017, Amazon employees grew by 477,600.
And between 2017 and 2022, this figure increased to 975,000.
In fact, the number of Amazon employees has only dropped once since 2007. In 2021, Amazon employed around 1,608,000 people - 67,000 fewer than 2022’s end-of-year total (1,541,000).
Since 2007 (17,000 employees), the number of Amazon employees has increased by over 90x.
Here’s a breakdown of the number of employees that work at Amazon over time:
|
Year |
Amazon Employees |
Change Over Previous Year |
Change Over Previous Year (%) |
|
2007 |
17,000 |
- |
- |
|
2008 |
20,700 |
↑ 2,300 |
↑ 21.76% |
|
2009 |
24,300 |
↑ 3,600 |
↑ 17.39% |
|
2010 |
33,700 |
↑ 9,400 |
↑ 38.68% |
|
2011 |
56,200 |
↑ 22,500 |
↑ 66.77% |
|
2012 |
88,400 |
↑ 32,200 |
↑ 57.3% |
|
2013 |
117,300 |
↑ 28,900 |
↑ 32.69% |
|
2014 |
154,100 |
↑ 36,800 |
↑ 31.37% |
|
2015 |
230,800 |
↑ 76,700 |
↑ 49.77% |
|
2016 |
341,400 |
↑ 110,600 |
↑ 47.92% |
|
2017 |
566,000 |
↑ 224,600 |
↑ 65.79% |
|
2018 |
647,500 |
↑ 81,500 |
↑ 14.4% |
|
2019 |
798,000 |
↑ 140,500 |
↑ 23.24% |
|
2020 |
1,298,000 |
↑ 500,000 |
↑ 62.66% |
|
2021 |
1,608,000 |
↑ 310,000 |
↑ 23.88% |
|
2022 |
1,541,000 |
↓ 67,000 |
↓ 4.17% |
Sources: Amazon, Statista, MacroTrends
Number of Amazon Employees Over Time (Monthly)
Quarterly analysis of Amazon employee numbers reflects a similar upward trend.
From the analysis period (Q1 2018 to Q4 2022), only 4 of 19 quarters saw a drop in Amazon employees.
The three biggest changes in employee numbers during this period are as follows:
- #1 - Q2 2020 → Q3 2020 (248,500)
- #2 - Q3 2020 → Q4 2020 (172,700)
- #3 - Q3 2021 → Q4 2021 (140,000)
Here are the Amazon quarterly employment figures in full:
|
Quarter |
Amazon Employees |
Change Over Previous Year |
Change Over Previous Year (%) |
|
Q1 2018 |
563,100 |
- |
- |
|
Q2 2018 |
575,700 |
↑ 12,600 |
↑ 2.24% |
|
Q3 2018 |
613,300 |
↑ 37,600 |
↑ 6.53% |
|
Q4 2018 |
647,500 |
↑ 34,200 |
↑ 5.58% |
|
Q1 2019 |
630,600 |
↓ 16,900 |
↓ 2.61% |
|
Q2 2019 |
653,300 |
↑ 22,700 |
↑ 3.6% |
|
Q3 2019 |
750,000 |
↑ 96,700 |
↑ 14.8% |
|
Q4 2019 |
798,000 |
↑ 48,000 |
↑ 6.4% |
|
Q1 2020 |
840,400 |
↑ 42,400 |
↑ 5.31% |
|
Q2 2020 |
876,800 |
↑ 36,400 |
↑ 4.33% |
|
Q3 2020 |
1,125,300 |
↑ 248,500 |
↑ 28.34% |
|
Q4 2020 |
1,298,000 |
↑ 172,700 |
↑ 15.35% |
|
Q1 2021 |
1,271,000 |
↓ 27,000 |
↓ 2.08% |
|
Q2 2021 |
1,335,000 |
↑ 64,000 |
↑ 5.04% |
|
Q3 2021 |
1,468,000 |
↑ 133,000 |
↑ 9.96% |
|
Q4 2021 |
1,608,000 |
↑ 140,000 |
↑ 9.54% |
|
Q1 2022 |
1,622,000 |
↑ 14,000 |
↑ 0.87 |
|
Q2 2022 |
1,523,000 |
↓ 99,000 |
↓ 6.1% |
|
Q3 2022 |
1,544,000 |
↑ 21,000 |
↑ 1.38% |
|
Q4 2022 |
1,541,000 |
↓ 3,000 |
↓ 0.19% |
Amazon Workforce by Gender
As of 2022, 56.8% of Amazon’s workforce were male, while 43.1% were female.
Those figures represent a shift from 2018’s 58.1% male/41.9% female split.
Here’s a closer look at the Amazon workforce by gender over time:
|
Year |
Male |
Change Over Year |
Female |
Change Over Year |
|
2018 |
58.1% |
- |
41.9% |
- |
|
2019 |
57.3% |
↓ 0.8% |
42.7% |
↑ 0.8% |
|
2020 |
55.4% |
↓ 1.9% |
44.6% |
↑ 1.9% |
|
2021 |
55.2% |
↓ 0.2% |
44.8% |
↑ 0.2% |
|
2022 |
56.8% |
↑ 1.6% |
43.1% |
↓ 1.7% |
Focusing specifically on the US, Amazon’s employee gender split is even more balanced.
As of 2021, 53% of Amazon workers were male and 47% were female.
This is the full picture in the US:
|
Year |
Male |
Change Over Year |
Female |
Change Over Year |
|
2018 |
55.5% |
- |
44.5% |
- |
|
2019 |
54.6% |
↓ 0.9% |
45.4% |
↑ 0.9% |
|
2020 |
53.1% |
↓ 1.5% |
46.9% |
↑ 1.5% |
|
2021 |
53% |
↓ 0.1% |
47% |
↑ 0.1% |
|
2022 |
54.3% |
↑ 1.3% |
45.5% |
↓ 1.5% |
Source: Amazon
Amazon Workforce by Ethnicity
Broken down by ethnicity, around 1 in 3 (31.9%) Amazon employees are White - a figure that continues to drop annually.
This comes at a time when Black (26.1%) and LatinX (23.5%) Amazon workers are on the rise.
Here’s a detailed look at Amazon employees by ethnicity over time:
|
Year |
White |
Black |
LatinX |
Asian |
Multiracial |
Native American |
|
2018 |
38.4% |
24.8% |
17.3% |
14.6% |
3.7% |
1.3% |
|
2019 |
34.6% |
26.4% |
18.6% |
15.4% |
3.6% |
1.3% |
|
2020 |
32.1% |
26.5% |
22.8% |
13.6% |
3.6% |
1.5% |
|
2021 |
30.2% |
28.2% |
23.6% |
13.2% |
3.3% |
1.5% |
|
2022 |
31.9% |
26.1% |
23.5% |
16.6% |
1.8% |
1.8% |
And here’s how the makeup of Amazon’s workforce has changed between 2018 and 2022:
|
White |
Black |
LatinX |
Asian |
Multiracial |
Native American |
|
|
Change |
↓ 6.5% |
↑ 1.3% |
↑ 6.2% |
↑ 2% |
↓ 1.9% |
↑ 0.5% |
Source: Amazon
Amazon Workforce by Role
The distribution of gender and ethnicity within the Amazon workforce varies massively depending on job role.
For instance, senior leadership roles are dominated by males (76.9%). And approximately 2 in 3 senior leaders are White (66.4%).
In contrast, field & customer support has a far more even distribution with a 51.7% male workforce. And a maximum of 5.5% separates Black (32.7%), LatinX (27.2%), and White (26.7%) Amazon employees in this field of work.
Here’s the data in full:
|
Workforce Avg. |
Field & Customer Support |
Corporate Employees |
People Managers |
Senior Leaders |
|
|
Male |
55.2% |
51.7% |
67.2% |
69.2% |
76.9% |
|
Female |
44.8% |
48.3% |
32.8% |
30.8% |
23.1% |
|
White |
30.2% |
26.7% |
44.6% |
53.1% |
66.4% |
|
Black |
28.2% |
32.7% |
8.5% |
12% |
5.5% |
|
LatinX |
23.6% |
27.2% |
8.7% |
10.9% |
4.5% |
|
Asian |
13.2% |
8.2% |
34.4% |
19.9% |
21.5% |
|
Multiracial |
3.3% |
3.3% |
3.2% |
3.3% |
1.8% |
|
Native American |
1.5% |
1.7% |
0.6% |
0.7% |
0.2% |
And this is how the Amazon employee landscape has changed between 2018 and 2021:
|
Change |
Workforce Avg. |
Field & Customer Support |
Corporate Employees |
People Managers |
Senior Leaders |
|
Male |
↓ 2.9% |
↓ 1.5% |
↓ 3.2% |
↓ 3.5% |
↓ 3.1% |
|
Female |
↑ 2.9% |
↑ 1.5% |
↑ 3.2% |
↑ 3.5% |
↑ 3.1% |
|
White |
↓ 8.2% |
↓ 7.2% |
↓ 6.1% |
↓ 8% |
↓ 7.9% |
|
Black |
↑ 3.4% |
↑ 1.1% |
↑ 3.6% |
↑ 4.8% |
|
|
LatinX |
↑ 6.3% |
↑ 6% |
↑ 2.6% |
↑ 3.4% |
|
|
Asian |
↓ 1.4% |
↑ 0.7% |
↓ 0.6% |
↓ 0.7% |
|
|
Multiracial |
↓ 0.4% |
↓ 0.7% |
↑ 0.2% |
↑ 0.3% |
|
|
Native American |
↑ 0.2% |
↑ 0.2% |
↑ 0.1% |
↑ 0.1% |
Source: Amazon
Amazon Workforce by Age
According to Zippia, the average employee at Amazon is 20 to 30 years old. Over half (54%) of all Amazon employees fall within this age bracket.
Just 17% of all Amazon workers are over 40 years old.
Here are the Amazon employee age figures:
|
Age Group |
Proportion of Amazon Employees |
|
18 to 20 years |
19% |
|
20 to 30 years |
54% |
|
30 to 40 years |
17% |
|
40+ years |
8% |
Source: Zippia
Conclusion
Despite a recent dip in employee numbers, the long-term trend points towards a growing Amazon workforce.
Especially considering the company’s continued presence as an internet juggernaut.
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