In 1994, Amazon sold books out of a garage in Bellevue, Washington. Three decades later, we support 2 million American jobs, operate in all 50 states, and have invested $1.8 trillion in the U.S. economy since 2010.These numbers didn’t happen by accident. They reflect a deliberate choice to invest in American workers, American communities, and American infrastructure — no matter the economic cycles or uncertainty. In 2025 alone, we put $340 billion back into this country, our largest single-year commitment in 30 years of operation.But what matters most is where that investment lands and what it produces.
ALLEGIANT AND SUN COUNTRY MERGE TO FILL BUDGET-AIRLINE GAP LEFT BY SPIRIT
There’s a common assumption that when a large company opens a facility in a small town, the benefits are narrow. The data tell a different story.
Oxford Economics studied 20 years of data and found that five years after Amazon opens a large fulfillment center in a county, on average, 3,900 additional jobs are created beyond our direct hires, 6,000 new small businesses open, 12,000 fewer people are unemployed, and about 6,000 fewer people rely on Medicaid — saving taxpayers roughly $45 million annually. These are measured outcomes, repeated across communities nationwide.
