Number of Amazon.com employees 2007-2021

The combined number of full- and part-time employees of Amazon.com has increased significantly between 2007 and 2021. In 2021, the American multinational e-commerce company, headquartered in Seattle, Washington, employed 1,608,000 full- and part-time employees. Every year, Amazon hires additional staff during the holiday season, because of the higher amounts of incoming orders. In the 2021 holiday season, roughly 125,000 workers were employed in the United States.

Biggest employer

Being the biggest retailer in North America and among the biggest retail players worldwide, Amazon tops the ranking of biggest employers in the IT sector, too. As seen in the workforce figures previously mentioned, Amazon counted the biggest workforce among the leading internet companies worldwide, outdoing Alphabet and Alibaba.

The importance of headquarters

In 2020, 600,000 of Amazon’s employees worked in the headquarters of Washington, where the retailer is unsurprisingly the biggest employer. The U.S. city hosts several other multinationals, such as Starbucks or Microsoft.