Amazon reported approximately 1,595,000 employees worldwide at June 30, 2026, according to its second-quarter results. That is the latest published quarterly count available for this September 30, 2026 update. The figure includes full-time and part-time employees and excludes contractors and temporary personnel. It is a headcount, not a full-time-equivalent measure.
This guide breaks down the latest Amazon employee statistics, historical workforce trends, hiring announcements, and regional disclosures. Each figure needs a date and a definition: an employee count is different from a hiring target or an estimate of jobs supported through suppliers and independent sellers.
Below, we compare Amazon’s reported workforce with other large companies while explaining the limits of those comparisons. The same distinction between employees, contractors, and open positions matters when smaller businesses maintain workforce records in HR software.
Key Amazon Employee Statistics (2026 Update)
- Latest reported employees: Approximately 1.595 million full-time and part-time employees at June 30, 2026, excluding contractors and temporary personnel.
- Long-term workforce growth: Year-end headcount rose from 33,700 in 2010 to 1,576,000 in 2025, approximately 46.8 times the earlier figure. Growth has not been continuous.
- Regional Breakdown:
- United States: Approximately 1 million full-time and part-time employees in the December 2025 economic-impact figures.
- Europe: More than 230,000 employees in the company’s 2025 economic-impact reporting; the UK is included within Europe.
- India: More than 120,000 employees in Amazon’s current India facts page. This is distinct from its wider jobs-supported estimate.
- Corporate vs. Warehouse Jobs:
- Operations and fulfilment roles: The reviewed current consolidated disclosures do not provide a separate worldwide warehouse-only count.
- Corporate and technology roles: No current, comparable worldwide split is provided in the reviewed consolidated disclosures. The older 350,000 estimate should not be presented as a verified 2026 count.
- US operations pay: Amazon’s September 2026 announcement raises minimum starting pay for full-time core operations roles to $20/hour, with average pay nearing $24/hour.
- Peak hiring: Holiday recruitment announcements include a mix of full-time, part-time, and seasonal roles. They are hiring plans, not a separate headcount to add to reported employees.
- Employer comparison: Amazon is among the world’s largest employers. Walmart’s reported global workforce remains larger, but reporting dates and employment definitions differ.
How Many Employees Does Amazon Have in 2026?
Amazon’s latest reported global count is 1,595,000 at June 30, 2026. Its most recent year-end count was 1,576,000 at December 31, 2025. The June figure should not be described as a year-end 2026 total.
The consolidated total covers full-time and part-time employees across Amazon’s businesses. Contractors, temporary personnel, delivery partners’ employees, and the staff of independent marketplace sellers should not automatically be included in that number.
Compared with June 2025, reported headcount increased by 49,000, about 3.2% using the published totals. Amazon rounds the annual growth rate to 3%. This is a net change after hires and departures, not a measure of how many people were recruited.
Here is Amazon’s historical year-end employee headcount. Annual filings describe these figures as approximate. Keeping the December 31 dates consistent avoids confusing seasonal or quarterly movements with full-year trends:
Amazon Employee Growth Over the Years
| Year ended December 31 | Full-time and part-time employees |
|---|---|
| 2010 | 33,700 |
| 2015 | 230,800 |
| 2018 | 647,500 |
| 2019 | 798,000 |
| 2020 | 1,298,000 |
| 2021 | 1,608,000 |
| 2022 | 1,541,000 |
| 2023 | 1,525,000 |
| 2024 | 1,556,000 |
| 2025 | 1,576,000 |
What changed: Headcount increased by 500,000 between year-end 2019 and 2020, then peaked at 1,608,000 at year-end 2021. It declined in 2022 and 2023 before recovering. The 2020 net increase does not establish an average number of gross hires per day.
Amazon Employee Breakdown by Region
Amazon employs people across multiple regions, with the US its largest disclosed employment base. The regional figures below come from separate company publications, so their dates and definitions are not identical.
Treat these as regional indicators, not numbers to add together into an exact reconciliation. For example, the UK is part of the Europe total, while some publications count permanent employees and others count full-time and part-time employees. Similar scope questions arise in cross-border hiring.
United States
- Amazon’s US economic-impact page reports approximately 1 million full-time and part-time employees, with data dated December 2025 unless otherwise noted.
- That page separately counts jobs indirectly supported by Amazon’s investments and jobs at independent sellers. Those people are not all Amazon employees.
- Amazon’s US workforce includes operations, stores, technology, corporate, and other roles. A consolidated employee total does not establish an exact warehouse-only share.
Europe
- Amazon’s 2025 Europe economic-impact update, published in June 2026, reports more than 230,000 employees.
- The UK economic-impact page reports around 75,000 permanent employees. This is a different employment definition from a global full-time-plus-part-time total.
- Amazon operates across countries including Germany, France, Spain, and Italy. Use the relevant national publication for country-specific figures instead of estimating a split from the Europe total.
Asia & Pacific
- Amazon’s India facts page reports more than 120,000 employees. Roles include operations, customer service, software, seller support, and corporate functions.
- India’s separate figure of 2.8 million jobs includes direct, indirect, seasonal, and induced employment. It must not be relabelled as 2.8 million Amazon employees or compared directly with the consolidated headcount.
Other Regions
- Amazon also operates in markets including Brazil and Mexico. The global count does not provide a current country-by-country split for every location.
- For the Middle East, Africa, and other regions, distinguish local employee disclosures from planned investments or broader economic-impact estimates. This article does not infer unsupported regional totals.
Amazon’s Hiring Trends & Workforce Strategy
Amazon’s Seasonal Hiring Surges
Amazon uses additional recruitment around major shopping periods, but published hiring announcements need careful reading. They can combine permanent and seasonal positions, and a planned role is not evidence that a hire has already been completed.
Examples from Amazon’s US announcements include:
- 2022: An announced plan for 150,000 full-time, part-time, and seasonal roles.
- 2023: A plan for 250,000 roles across those employment types. The 2025 US holiday announcement also planned 250,000 mixed full-time, part-time, and seasonal positions.
Some seasonal positions may provide a path to regular employment, but conversion is not guaranteed. Temporary hiring targets should not be added mechanically to Amazon’s quarterly employee count, which explicitly excludes temporary personnel.
Amazon’s Push for Higher Wages
- Amazon introduced a $15/hour minimum wage for US employees in 2018. That historical milestone should not be confused with the current announced rate for a particular employment category.
- In its September 2026 pay announcement, Amazon said US full-time core operations minimum starting pay is increasing to $20/hour, with average hourly pay reaching nearly $24. Its figure above $32/hour includes the stated value of benefits and is not a cash-wage figure.
- Benefits depend on location, employment class, and eligibility. Amazon describes healthcare, retirement savings, and education support for eligible workers. When comparing employers or benefits administration tools, distinguish access to a benefit from the employer’s monetary valuation of it.
Tech & Corporate Hiring vs. Warehouse Hiring
- Amazon’s consolidated reporting covers both operational and corporate roles but does not provide the precise current worldwide warehouse-versus-corporate split used in older versions of this article.
- Hiring can continue in selected businesses while other teams reduce roles. Changes in AWS, AI, retail, or fulfilment strategy do not by themselves establish a numerical employee count for each division.
- Amazon announced reductions of approximately 14,000 corporate roles in October 2025 and approximately 16,000 roles in January 2026. These announcements should not be subtracted directly from a later headcount: timing, internal transfers, departures, and other hiring affect the net total.
Amazon vs. Other Employers: How It Compares
The table below uses company-reported workforce disclosures available by September 30, 2026. Dates and definitions differ, so it is a scale comparison rather than a perfectly standardized ranking. The source link for each company explains what its number includes.
| Company and source | Reported employees, date, and scope |
|---|---|
| Walmart | Approximately 2.1 million at January 31, 2026; worldwide full-time and part-time associates. |
| Amazon | Approximately 1,595,000 at June 30, 2026; full-time and part-time, excluding contractors and temporary personnel. |
| UPS | Approximately 460,000 in its FY2025 annual report; full-time and part-time management and hourly staff, excluding temporary seasonal employees. |
| FedEx | Approximately 530,000 at May 31, 2026; 300,000 permanent full-time and 230,000 permanent part-time employees. Includes Freight before its June 1 spin-off. |
| Alibaba | 132,165 total employees at June 30, 2026; the quarterly disclosure does not label this total as full-time only. |
| Alphabet | 198,933 employees at June 30, 2026; the earnings table does not provide a full-time/part-time split. |
| Microsoft | Approximately 223,000 full-time employees at June 30, 2026. |
| Meta | 75,472 employees at June 30, 2026, including approximately 8,000 affected by announced May reductions. This is not a September headcount. |
Key takeaway: Amazon’s large operational network makes its workforce much larger than those of several software and internet companies, while Walmart reports more employees overall. Headcount alone does not measure productivity, workplace quality, or the attractiveness of an individual job.
FAQ: People Also Ask
How many employees does Amazon have worldwide?
Amazon reported approximately 1,595,000 full-time and part-time employees at June 30, 2026. That excludes contractors and temporary personnel. It is the latest published quarterly count used in this September 30 update, not a live count of employees today.
How many employees does Amazon have in the U.S.?
Amazon’s US economic-impact publication reports approximately 1 million full-time and part-time employees, using December 2025 data unless noted. Its wider jobs-supported figures include people outside Amazon’s own workforce.
How many corporate employees does Amazon have?
The reviewed current consolidated disclosures do not publish a comparable worldwide corporate-only total. We therefore do not present the older 350,000 estimate as a verified 2026 statistic.
How many warehouse employees does Amazon have?
The reviewed consolidated filings do not give a current worldwide warehouse-only count. Fulfilment-centre employees, transportation staff, temporary workers, and delivery-partner employees are different groups, so the older 1.2 million estimate cannot be treated as a verified warehouse figure.
How much does Amazon pay warehouse employees?
Amazon’s September 2026 announcement puts US full-time core operations minimum starting pay at $20/hour and average pay at nearly $24/hour. Actual pay varies by role and location. The higher total-compensation figure includes benefits and should not be described as hourly cash pay.
Is Amazon still hiring in 2026?
Amazon continues to advertise roles while also restructuring some teams. Check the official Amazon jobs site for live openings in your location. A global workforce increase or a past holiday hiring announcement does not guarantee that a specific position is available.
Conclusion
Amazon’s latest published workforce count is 1.595 million at June 30, 2026. Its history shows rapid expansion in 2020 and 2021, subsequent reductions, and a recovery in reported headcount. That pattern is more informative than describing employment as continuously growing.
The useful distinction is between reported employees, temporary hiring, indirect jobs, and announced role reductions. Keep the date and employment definition attached to every statistic, and evaluate a job using its specific pay, responsibilities, eligibility rules, and location.
For related coverage of technology and business change, explore our SaaS industry trends guide. This article is a sourced workforce explainer, not a review of Amazon as an employer or a guarantee of future hiring.
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