The number of Amazon employees (including full time and part time) at the end of 2022 was 1,541,000 compared to 1,608,000 at the end of the prior year. The chart above displays the number of Amazon employees at the end of each year from 2010 to 2022.
Number of employees at Amazon 2006-2022
| Year | Employees |
| 2022 | 1,541,000 |
| 2021 | 1,608,000 |
| 2020 | 1,298,000 |
| 2019 | 798,000 |
| 2018 | 6,47,500 |
| 2017 | 5,66,000 |
| 2016 | 3,41,400 |
| 2015 | 2,30,800 |
| 2014 | 1,54,100 |
| 2013 | 1,17,300 |
| 2012 | 88,400 |
| 2011 | 56,200 |
| 2010 | 33,700 |
| 2009 | 24,300 |
| 2008 | 20,700 |
| 2007 | 17000 |
| 2006 | 13900 |
2021 and 2020: In 2021, Amazon, the ecommerce giant employed total 1,608,000 full time and part time employees. During the previous year (2020), the company employed 1,298,000 employees including full time and part time.
The total number of employees working for Amazon has grown to 798,000 in 2019.
The aproximate number of employees working for Amazon including full time and part time was 6,47,500 in 2018.
About Amazon:
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is the largest ecommerce brand as well as one of the leading cloud services brand. The company which was founded in 1994 has seen enormous growth over the last five years and has greatly extended its range of cloud based services. Amazon has its headquarters in Seattle, Washington, United States. The CEO of Amazon is Jeff Bezos. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud services platform of Amazon. Amazon is also the largest R&D spender in the entire industry. The company has divided its business into three main segments that include Amazon North America, Amazon International and AWS. Amazon North America is the largest business segment of Amazon accounting for the largest part of the company’s revenue.
The technology industry is highly competitive and the technology brands require highly skilled technology professionals. The competition for highly qualified technical staff, software engineers and computer scientists has always been intense in the technology industry. In the recent years the number of employees working at Amazon globally has increased very fast. In 2017 the approximate number of full time and part time part time employees working for Amazon was 566000. This was more than 200,000 higher than the previous year when the number of employees working for Amazon was 341,400 approximately
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