Show-Me State Times

Amazon received $111 million in subsidies, tax breaks, and grants from Missouri communities to build two facilities.

Advocacy group Good Jobs First, which opposes such subsidies, found Missouri provided the 10th-highest amount of grants and breaks among U.S. states to the nearly $1-trillion company.

Missouri is ranked behind Kentucky (21 projects/$112 million) and ahead of Massachusetts (5 projects/$87 million), California (12 projects/$85 million), and Michigan (5 projects/$82 million).

Arlington, Virginia was awarded the largest portion of the 310 taxpayer-subsidized Amazon projects.

The most expensive subsidy provided in Missouri was by the St. Peters government, which offered $79 million to Amazon for a various state and local subsidies.

The second largest subsidy was worth $32 million for a property tax abatement in Hazelwood.

There were no developments which received undisclosed subsidy amounts.

As of Nov. 17, 2022, Amazon had received 310 separate tax break deals from local and state governments across the U.S., totaling $5.14 billion.

State	# Projects	Total Subsidy
Virginia	20	$824,291,799
Illinois	16	$732,973,199
New York	22	$671,446,986
Washington	10	$608,644,670
Oregon	32	$483,459,645
Texas	13	$305,959,751
Ohio	14	$172,418,555
Tennessee	20	$166,030,438
Kentucky	21	$111,789,976
Missouri	2	$110,600,000
Massachusetts	5	$86,979,275
California	12	$84,541,000
Michigan	5	$82,352,146
Maryland	3	$68,425,000
South Carolina	5	$64,297,962
Indiana	15	$60,389,500
Alabama	2	$56,500,000
Wisconsin	6	$54,135,500
Louisiana	7	$48,967,587
New Jersey	3	$45,422,240
Florida	13	$43,239,475
Connecticut	3	$37,700,000
North Carolina	5	$31,186,975
Pennsylvania	4	$29,557,871
Georgia	5	$27,115,929
Mississippi	3	$23,925,795
Iowa	2	$22,400,000
Kansas	2	$21,802,522
Colorado	9	$15,779,091
Oklahoma	5	$11,207,651
Utah	3	$9,780,226
Delaware	2	$7,972,500
Minnesota	1	$5,700,000
New Mexico	1	$5,244,071
Arizona	2	$5,139,671
Nevada	5	$3,251,324
Rhode Island	1	$2,700,000
Maine	11	$578,828