Read the top takeaways about how we contributed to local communities
Amazon’s roots run deep in Canada – since the launch of Amazon.ca in 2002, we’ve grown to more than 46,000 employees and close to 70 operations sites from coast to coast, with a measurable impact on the local economy:
- Since 2010, we’ve made direct investments in our Canadian operations of more than $65 billion.* This includes both capital expenditures (such as the fulfilment centres and data centres we build) and operating expenditures (such as the jobs we create).
- Keystone Strategy, a third-party economics consulting firm, estimates that Amazon’s investments contributed an additional $55 billion in spillover value-added effects to the Canadian GDP between 2010 and 2024.**
In 2025, we grew our local impact in meaningful ways:
We made landmark investments in the compensation of our frontline employees, with new opportunities for career growth. We raised our average hourly base wage in Canada to $24.50 per hour—up from $23.50 in 2024—representing a 4.3% year-over-year increase. This pay increase means frontline Amazon employees working full-time*** will earn a minimum annual salary of $50,960.
At the same time, we enhanced our Career Choice education benefit to now pre-pay 100% of program tuition while expediting the eligibility period for employees to participate, from one year of employment to 90 days. In doing this, we’re removing barriers to higher education and better enabling eligible employees across our various businesses and facilities, including fulfilment centres, delivery stations, and sortation centres, to learn new skills for career success.
We continued to improve local delivery speeds, leveraging our unparalleled logistics network to bring greater convenience and flexibility to Prime members' doorsteps. Amazon expanded Same-Day Delivery options for Prime members across multiple Canadian cities in 2025: in Calgary and Edmonton, we introduced enhanced delivery options that bring packages from click to doorstep in as fast as 7 hours, along with new Overnight Delivery options that allow orders placed as late as 8:30 p.m. to arrive the next morning. In the Greater Toronto Area, Hamilton, and Ottawa, we made Same-Day Delivery even more convenient by introducing two new afternoon delivery windows in addition to the existing evening and overnight options.
We made it easier to shop homegrown brands from coast to coast with the launch of our Canada Showcase storefront, featuring thousands of products from hundreds of local companies - from home goods and grocery essentials to beauty and health products, grocery items and more.
We contributed to the decarbonization of our local transportation network when we launched 50 new custom electric delivery vans from Rivian at a delivery station in Greater Vancouver – marking the latest step in Canada towards Amazon’s goal of decarbonizing its delivery fleet and reaching net-zero carbon by 2040.
We gave back to local communities in a big way – awarding more than $700,000 in grants to local causes; donating more than 1.8 million in-kind items from our operations sites; and reaching more than 30,000 young people through our Your Voice is Power computer science education program.
We launched exciting new Canadian Originals on Prime Video – from going behind the scenes with punk rock band Simple Plan to docu-series 50,000 First Dates: A True Love Story to celebrating the best of Quebec comedy with new unscripted series like Karaoke Club with comedian Stéphane Rousseau and a third season of LOL: Qui rira le dernier? with Patrick Huard.
Our 2025 Amazon Canada Impact Report illustrates how we use our scale, technology, resources, and passion to generate economic benefits and vitality - including our growing contributions to local communities, sustainability initiatives, and more.
Happy reading!
Eva Lorenz, Vice President and Country Manager, Amazon Canada
*All dollar figures in this report are CAD unless otherwise specified
** Amazon’s spillover value-added effects represent the indirect effects of Amazon’s investments on Canada’s GDP. Amazon’s investment has indirect effects in the economy due to the expanded production of firms that supply the goods and services purchased by Amazon.
***Annual salary calculation based on 40-hour work week over 52 weeks
