Amazon Now Employs Almost 1 Million People in the US - or 1 in Every 169 Workers (nbcnews.com) 99
"Amazon now employs almost 1 million people in the U.S. — or 1 in every 169 workers," reports NBC News:
Amazon has revealed for the first time the number of people it employs in the U.S., putting the figure at 950,000, according to the e-commerce giant's quarterly earnings call on Thursday. While the headcount was boosted by an additional 64,000 people hired in the second quarter, it does not include the thousands of contractors such as drivers whom Amazon depends on to run its Amazon Prime delivery operations...
Globally, the company employs 1.3 million people. It is the second largest employer in the U.S., behind Walmart, which currently employees nearly 1.6 million people in the U.S. As of June, the national private sector workforce is roughly 161 million people, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That means about 1 out of every 169 people in the country's workforce works for Amazon, while about 1 out of every 100 people in the U.S. workforce is employed by Walmart.
The article also notes that since 2018 Amazon has been paying a $15-an-hour minimum for all employees — more than double the current U.S. minimum wage of $7.25 an hour
Globally, the company employs 1.3 million people. It is the second largest employer in the U.S., behind Walmart, which currently employees nearly 1.6 million people in the U.S. As of June, the national private sector workforce is roughly 161 million people, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That means about 1 out of every 169 people in the country's workforce works for Amazon, while about 1 out of every 100 people in the U.S. workforce is employed by Walmart.
The article also notes that since 2018 Amazon has been paying a $15-an-hour minimum for all employees — more than double the current U.S. minimum wage of $7.25 an hour
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What are we stopping now? Employment? Amazon employs 0.59% of all workers in the US. That means that 99.4% of people in the US work for someone else. 48% of Americans work for small businesses. And why are you bringing race into this? Seems odd. Why is everything political with you?
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Then much of science isn't actually science though
Most of "science" discussed on Slashdot is not science. It is political-oriented clickbait disguised as scientific discussion. It needs to stop.
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No it isn't. That is the lesson YOU need to learn: Science is not political. Truth is not political. YOU GUYS NEED TO STOP POLITICIZING EVERYTHING. That is the lesson I am teaching, BytePusher. Do you need a fucking lesson too? STOP POLITICIZING SCIENCE AND EVERYTHING.
The science of cancer, isn't politicized.
Our ability to execute and deliver modern medicine to every human who deserves it, isn't politicized.
The science of reaching for the stars, and every taxpayer that funded it, wasn't politicized (RIP NASA)
Even truth is political, because there is much of it that has been determined that you can't fucking handle. Thus, it remains hidden from you.
Give me a fucking break. YOU are the one in need of a wake-up lesson. Everything has been, and likely always will be polit
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And I'm telling you science doesn't have to be that way, but generally always has been as long as humans were involved.
STOP BELIEVING IN FANTASIES.
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Well that's great and all, but it doesn't have to be like that on Slashdot. STOP POLITICIZING SCIENCE, GEEKMUX. You have control over what YOU do. So stop it.
First, I'm not politicizing anything. I'm showing you how it is, and I prefer to have discussions with realists here, not children who dabble in fantasy.
What you want, and what exists, are realms apart. It's called life and it's never been "fair".
Scientists have been bitching about this problem, for centuries. Doesn't change, and you certainly won't fix it ranting here.
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Politics is a product of societies socialising, we need to be doing more. Clearly Amazon needs to be changing it's supervisory tactics. I suggest switching to productivity circles and profit sharing. Fire the animals who treat your workers like machines and hire people who can use effective profit sharing and ownership in company by employees, better outcomes, better ideas. You also will no longer look like an insane pack of greed obsessed freaks, working you employees to death, convince them to do it to th
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"Our ability to execute and deliver modern medicine to every human who deserves it, isn't politicized."
Like a vaccine during a pandemic? That isn't politicized?
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"Our ability to execute and deliver modern medicine to every human who deserves it, isn't politicized."
Like a vaccine during a pandemic? That isn't politicized?
I was rather hopeful with the blatant amount of it, I wouldn't have to explain that it's sarcasm.
And I also wasn't talking about just a single vaccine during a pandemic.
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And if you think science is not political, but ignore the issue of how science if funded and science workers are exploited by corporate and military interests, you are completely ignorant
Re:Unless you want the entire United States (Score:5, Informative)
Amazon is neither the biggest employer nor even the biggest retailer in America.
Blacks make up 26% of their American workforce, much higher than their percentage of the population. 11% of Amazon managers are black.
So, contrary to rsilvergun's rant, it's unlikely that Amazon is a vast capitalist conspiracy for white supremacy.
Amazon workforce demographics [aboutamazon.com]
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I neither agree nor disagree with rsilvergun's view, but I think there is an open question about if network effects, automation and exponential growth are a good or bad thing. In other words, would you rather have a world where you have such a report and we can all shout about it or a world where there are a half a million mom and pop stores with a few employees each. Amazon's basic business model is capital light by having someone else own the goods while they make the profits. In some sense you might t
I didn't say "blacks" (Score:2)
A minority is just an easily definable group that exists as a scapegoat for the 1% to keep the 99% off their backs and fighting among themselves.
The point isn't that Amazon is the biggest employer, the point is they're an excellent example of consolidation among employers. That consolidation gives them a lot of power. In the past Union
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48% of Americans work for small businesses.
Is that a 2021 statistic, or a late 2019 statistic?
One of these days you'll get it. After it's far too late to do anything about it.
Enjoy your Ama-job.
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voter ID laws have repeatedly been found to Target minorities, most notably when one of the major proponents of the laws died and his daughter released papers from his attic showing that they had studied how to write the laws to Target minorities,
Methinks rsilvergun is turning into a QAnon type. Reminds me of the "Clinton had her opponents killed" type of people too. What a lunatic! Sounds like we need to shut down www.fark.com as it looks like where he is getting is "facts" from.
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Right, so it really was a botched robbery. A very convenient one.
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Since when are you the boss? Nobody made you read those comments, you can ignore them if you don't like them.
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The time to do something about it was back in 1980, when there was a chance to vote for someone else. Someone whose economic theories were grounded in reality.
We had a second chance in H. Ross Perot with his "giant sucking sound"... and wiffed it. Capital won, and everyone else lost.
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The truth hurts, doesn't it.
I'm here to tell everyone "I told you so"
after surviving the last 40 years of bullshit
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Good FP.
My response: I'd like to see the United States filled with small companies competing aggressively, offering me real choices for everything I want to buy and real choices for where I buy those things. And no too-big-to-fail companies creating pressure for bigger government. I think the path to smaller companies leads through higher retained earnings via anti-bigness pro-freedom taxation. Progressive taxation linked to market share. Might even lead to smaller government, but no guarantees there. (Actu
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I actually got a headache trying to figure how stupid you must be to type all that retardation.
How the fuck is making sure someone has the authority to cast a vote impeding voting for anyone other than those who don't have the authority to be voting?
Most states have free ID programs for poor people so what the fuck are talking about? So the same people ready to throw away literal trillions of dollars can't find enough money to fill in the gaps? Especially since that money is intended for the sole purpose o
Amazon: Many problems. (Score:2)
1) There are MANY mistakes and unfortunate limits in the descriptions of products.
2) Often the price on Amazon is much higher than on other web sites.
Maybe the new CEO will fix the many problems.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will officially step down on July 5. Here are the top 5 things to know about his replacement, Andy Jassy. [businessinsider.com]. May 30, 2021
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I don't see how either of those points isn't already a problem with local stores? Is this meant to be a comparison between Amazon and another alternative, or just a complaint in general about shopping?
I do almost all of my online shopping either with Amazon (I have prime), Ali Express, or eBay.
- eBay for things I can't find anywhere else (because it's usually a little higher price, and slower than Amazon) or where I'm looking for used
- Ali for things I want as cheap as possible and don't mind waiting for
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I've never seen Amazon boa
Lack of diversity is scary. (Score:4, Insightful)
As someone who lives in Upstate NY, where a lot of our once thriving towns are now shadows of their previous glory. Not because of politics, but because they were one or two large Business that kept the town going, and as they closed down over time, the towns were left with a big infrastructure without the tax base to pay for it.
Amazon may seem like a tempting place to boost your economy, but what will happen in 20 years where Amazon leaves your small town, with all those new roads and infrastructure you had built up to make it attracted to them.
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Then wall off your town from the world and do not allow any trade with the outside world. Prevent any of its citizens from leaving the town, cause God knows they will want out. Thatâ(TM)s the only way to preserve it. And it ought to be preserved, because preservation is the correct thing for the sake of it being correct. Nobody knows truly why.
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It means those towns didn't diversify when they had the chance.
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Most of these towns were not big enough to diversify.
Some of the small cities like Troy, Schenectady, Rochester and Utica had the size and opportunity. But many of those small towns just had a economy around the core business. When that closed, the restaurant closes, the shops close...
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Your narrative seems to be painting this as Amazon (or some other retailer's) fault. The town has no one but themselves to blame if they put all their eggs in someone else's basket and then that basket is taken away. Maintaining infrastructure, tax base, attracting business investment, those are all things the local leadership has the responsibility to do. And it's not a "one time and done" thing. It's a continuous process.
If the mayor thought he could "land the big Amazon Warehouse deal" and then sit on hi
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Lends credence to the idea that you grow or die.
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You too? Born buffalo, now a bit north of there. And yes, I work in heavy manufacturing and repair. The last 40 years have been *brutal*.
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Meanwhile turds like you look the other direction at the amount of pollution data centers create, not only from electric pollution, but thermal pollution in the areas they operate in. Not to mention the blight that is row and row after bleak data centers.
Have along the Dulles Greenway some evening and go spin around where all of the data centers are in Ashburn, VA. It's a pretty bleak place.
That's what coding jobs give us.
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Fuck coding, they'll just give those jobs to the Indians anyhow. As a skilled tradesman at least I produce stuff you actually *need* everyday. As in, you need food, clothing, housing, transportation, etc. When the trades disappear, you can start living like the Amish again. A nation of brains inside jars can't support an economy or anything else.
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Heavy manufacturing produces Greenhouse gasses and other pollution which is killing our planet. Learn to code.
Where do you think "stuff" comes from? You need more than just coders to have an economy.
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As someone who lives in Upstate NY, where a lot of our once thriving towns are now shadows of their previous glory. Not because of politics, but because they were one or two large Business that kept the town going, and as they closed down over time, the towns were left with a big infrastructure without the tax base to pay for it.
Oh I wouldn't worry. Eventually buggy whips will come back in style.
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"but what will happen in 20 years where Amazon leaves..."
So the alternative would be to never let a business grow enough that its leaving would not be impactful? Sounds good, but then you'd never see the growth that large businesses can bring. I doubt Seattle is complaining about MS, or San Francisco about Google, or Detroit about GM.
I'd rather see the boom/bust cycle than no boom at all. Some prosperity is better than none at all.
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I think you underestimate San Francisco's capacity for complaining. Google could invent a vaccine for HIV and put an end to AIDS forever; and there'd be people in SF screaming bloody murder about it. That would mean all the charities that provide HIV medications and services to the infected poor would be shut down; because the funding would be redirected to purchase the vaccine. And that would result in some Googlers using the increase in their shares' price to buy houses, which would... you know... "co
I'm OK With This (Score:2, Interesting)
I'm OK with this because of how these businesses are primarily focused: AMZN is primarily a supply-chain operations business (merchant services, warehousing, shipping, last-mile delivery) for both physical goods (their largest employment division and other bets like Basics-branded goods) and digital services (their original mega-growth segment via AWS clou
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They are more efficient because they are even more abusive. And, compared to Walmart, that is saying something.
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Amazon helped millions of people have a good retirement by enabling their retirement investment in Amazon shares (either directly or indirectly via 401k) to go up and also enabling cheaper products for them to buy.
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You should blame the government for your rent going up. They are the ones that made it so that people won't build additional housing units. The price of rent is correlated with the number of available units. The only way to reduce the price of rent is to increase the number of housing units allowed to be built. All other methods mean some people won't have housing. The government caused the problem, they won't fix it.
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Then you'll like this discussion. [reddit.com]
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WTF? Do you really think it is the government forcing developers to maximize profits by building what sells for the maximum instead of building less profitable rentals? At that the only reason that rentals get built here is due to the government telling the developers that they have to build some rentals in order to build the highly profitable houses or condos.
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The local government, which is elected by existing homeowners, doesn't want existing home prices to drop. It's entirely caused by property owners not wanting developers to put in extra housing units (condo, or rental). There is enough competition that developers would try to make money by creating more units if they were allowed to. The local governments don't want apartment complexes being built. That should be obvious. You seem to think there is only one housing developer in the world.
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No, I just watch rentals get torn down to be replaced by more profitable housing. If you're going to build, you're going to build the most profitable that you can. Build a big house and sell it or if the zoning allows, build a condo tower and sell individual apartments sometimes townhouses.
Guess it will depend on where you are. Here, they seem to be building everywhere. In town it is older houses being replaced and further out, new developments, either houses or condos/townhouses. Usually the local governme
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Wait, you seriously think that something can remain hugely profitable without the government ensuring it? When one developer sees someone building a condo complex that has a massive profit they will want to get in on that profit and build something similar or bigger and taller nearby. It is only the government that steps in and tells them no way. If you're in the taco business and you saw someone selling tacos in a town for $100 in profit per taco, wouldn't you set up your own taco stand in that town too? W
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Your Taco's are a bad example unless the ingredients cost $90. With housing, there is only so much land, only so much water, only so much sewage treatment, roads, electricity, schools and even places for people to shop. They're all real limits on how fast development can happen. Whats the point of building a house with no water, no sewage and no road access? Now it's true that the government rations things out based on there being services. There's part of town where the plan is to add 60,000 people over 30
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You know, your BS was half-believable until you said you can get a $1000 iPhone for $170 on Ali Baba. Anyway, I went and looked. So give me actual examples .. because all the ones I am finding are only 10% to 20% cheaper than at amazon or of dubious quality. Actually they are sometimes MORE expensive than Amazon.
Example:
Two USB chargers $5 each ($10 total) : https://www.alibaba.com/produc... [alibaba.com]
Two-pack of USB chargers on Amazon $8 WITH shipping included if you're a prime member.
Now please, show me some counter
Leech= Middle Class (Score:2)
Brawndo (Score:2)
The brawndo corporation simply bought the FDA, and the FCC, enabling them to say, do and sell anything they wanted.
Brawndo, it's got electrolytes.
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Also paging Mr Zorg
funny how the link then promotes amazon (Score:2)
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Since you brought up Alibaba, can you share the numbers of worldwide and US employees of Alibaba? They are not US-based, and probably don't employ as many people in the US, so it's offtopic, but what the heck.
Hmmm... I wonder (Score:2)
Does that number include the warehouse workers employed by outside agencies?
Why so much online ordering? (Score:3)
I see people in here talking about buying ALL their groceries online from Amazon or buying most things from them... It's that mentality that helped the company grow so gigantic in size and scope.
Now, I'm a free market Capitalist type myself, so I don't see ANY reason to cry for big government to try to squash them?
But it's insane how many people whine about Amazon while continuing to support them.
For my part, I've learned that "shopping online" is best done using search engines to find the online stores offering the best prices on what you need. Amazon hopes you'll skip that step and just search on THEIR site, out of convenience. You'll probably not get the best deal from them anymore, especially now that everything you purchase has sales tax added to it. But at this point, you also risk extra hassle with them because Amazon's own contracted delivery drivers are less likely to ensure a box gets to you reliably. Nobody's perfect, obviously. But at least when UPS delivers your package, you get an experienced employee, because the company doesn't even allow them to drive the truck and do deliveries until they put in time first in the warehouse/sorting center, loading trucks. Amazon is hiring on anyone who applies and can pass a basic background check, and then they're pushed to deliver in really tight time-windows. They wind up just throwing packages outside front entrances of buildings so they don't have to waste more time going in and putting it in front of the proper office suite's door, etc. I'll pay a bit more to not have that nonsense....
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But it's insane how many people whine about Amazon while continuing to support them.
eh, that's life. it's because they're popular and therefore, a lot of people have firsthand experience, so there're a lot of stories to go around.
a bit like the US: "everyone hates the US" and all that, yet the US has the highest number of immigrants of any country, by far (source) [worldpopul...review.com], and once in the US, immigrants dont tend to leave. actions speak louder than words, eh.
plus, shit-talking is just fun. the people, they love the drama.
anyway, as an aside, i used to buy a lot of amazon, but now i only buy c
Proof of aliens! (Score:2)
Someone must have intercepted news broadcast of a 13-fingered alien civilization.
Otherwise, why choose such a weird milestone?
- almost (but not quite!) 1 million workers
- 1 out ov every 169 workers (not one out of every 200, or 150, or even, 170 workers)
What prompted this peculiar timing? It's not a round number in decimal. 169 is 13x13, that's it.
$15 million every hour (Score:2)
That's $600 million every week (for a 40-hour work week). That's $31,200,000,000 every year. Of course, their revenue is ten times that but who's counting?
1 of 169 what? (Score:2)
1 out of every 169 people in the country's workforce works for Amazon, while about 1 out of every 100 people in the U.S. workforce is employed by Walmart
The ratio is even higher if you exclude all the people sitting home collecting Pelosi's unemployment supplement.
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One in EVERY 169 workers? I bet I can find 169 workers who are not employed by Amazon.