Announcement reposted from Amazon United States:
We recently released our 2024 economic impact report, on how Amazon helps to keep America’s economy strong.
For over 30 years, we’ve invested in communities across the US, created jobs, and built infrastructure to bring people the products they need with ever increasing speed.
This year, thanks to the positive impact of Amazon employees and sellers like you, the Progressive Policy Institute, a prominent economic research group, ranked Amazon as its “#1 Investment Hero,” a recognition that we invested more in the US than any other American company. This marks the fifth consecutive year we’ve received this designation.
The report outlines our progress and includes the following highlights:
- Our investments have contributed over $1 trillion to the U.S. GDP since 2010.
- Last year, we directly invested over $244 billion in the US, including employee compensation and infrastructure development.
- We support almost 5 million jobs across the US through the people we hire and our investment in communities.
- Our store creates opportunities for small- and medium-sized businesses and independent sellers, who employed more than 1.8 million people in the US in 2023.
- In the past five years, we’ve invested more than $280 billion in more than 1,000 small towns and rural areas across the US.
- Independent sellers in rural areas collectively achieved more than 60% year-over-year growth in our store.
For more information about our economic impact in the US, go to our state-by-state map of US investments at About Amazon.