Amazon pays the best commissions to its affiliates. The highest commissions are earned when someone purchases luxury products and amazon coins, which is 10%. Furniture, Home, Home Improvement, Lawn & Garden, Pets Products, Pantry attract a commission of 8%.
Video games attract the lowest commission of 1% while the common products like phones and tablets attract a commission of 2%.
Here is a table showing https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/node/topic/GRXPHT8U84RAYDXZ Amazon commission structures for the year 2020:
| Product Category | Fixed Standard Program Fee Rates |
| Luxury Beauty, Amazon Coins | 10.00% |
| Furniture, Home, Home Improvement, Lawn & Garden, Pets Products, Pantry | 8.00% |
| Headphones, Beauty, Musical Instruments, Business & Industrial Supplies | 6.00% |
| Outdoors, Tools | 5.50% |
| Digital Music, Grocery, Physical Music, Handmade, Digital Videos | 5.00% |
| Physical Books, Health & Personal Care, Sports, Kitchen, Automotive, Baby Products | 4.50% |
| Amazon Fire Tablet Devices, Amazon Kindle Devices, Amazon Fashion Women’s, Men’s & Kids Private Label, Apparel, Amazon Cloud Cam Devices, Fire TV Edition Smart TVs, Amazon Fire TV Devices, Amazon Echo Devices, Ring Devices, Watches, Jewelry, Luggage, Shoes, and Handbags & Accessories | 4.00% |
| Amazon Fresh, Toys | 3.00% |
| PC, PC Components, DVD & Blu-Ray | 2.50% |
| Televisions, Digital Video Games | 2.00% |
| Physical Video Games & Video Game Consoles | 1.00% |
| Gift Cards; Wireless Service Plans; Alcoholic Beverages; Digital Kindle Products purchased as a subscription; Food prepared and delivered from a restaurant; Amazon Appstore, Prime Now, Amazon Pay Places, or Prime Wardrobe Purchases | 0.00% |
| All Other Categories | 4.00% |
Special Program Fees
(a) Bounty Events
| Bounty-Eligible Program | Homepage | Bounty Action | Eligible Customer | Bounty Rate |
| Prime Video Channels Free Trial | See Table A Below | Successful registration for a third party video subscription | An Amazon Prime customer who meets the eligibility requirements for a Prime Video Channels Subscriptions | $2.50 |
| Amazon Baby Registry | Successful creation of, and addition of at least 1 item to, an Amazon Baby Registry | A customer who meets the eligibility requirements for the creation of an Amazon Baby Registry and who has not previously created an Amazon Baby Registry | $3.00 | |
| Amazon Business | Successful registration for an Amazon Business account | A business which meets the eligibility requirements for an Amazon Business account and which has not previously registered for an Amazon Business account. | $15.00 | |
| Amazon Family | Successful registration for Amazon Prime Free Trial | A customer who meets the eligibility requirements for the Amazon Prime Free Trial | $3.00 | |
| Amazon Home Services | Successful reservation of a Standard, Pre-Packaged, or Custom service from Amazon Home Services | A customer who meets the eligibility requirements for Amazon Home Services and who has not previously reserved a service for Amazon Home Services | $3.00 | |
| Amazon Music Unlimited Free Trial | Successful registration for Amazon Music Unlimited Free Trial | A customer who meets the eligibility requirements for the Amazon Music Unlimited Free Trial | $3.00 | |
| Amazon Prime Free Trial | Successful registration for Amazon Prime Free Trial | A customer who meets the eligibility requirements for the Amazon Prime Free Trial | $3.00 | |
| Amazon Prime Gifting (12-month) | Bounty-Eligible Purchase of a 12-month Prime Gift Membership | Any customer | $5.00 | |
| Amazon Prime Gifting (3-month) | Bounty-Eligible Purchase of a 3-month Prime Gift Membership | Any customer | $3.00 | |
| Amazon Prime Discounted Monthly Offering (Prime Free Trial for Qualifying Customers) | Successful registration for a Prime Free Trial for qualifying customer | A customer who meets the eligibility requirements for the Amazon Prime Monthly Discounted Free Trial | $3.00 | |
| Amazon Prime Music Free Trial | Successful registration for Amazon Prime Free Trial | A customer who meets the eligibility requirements for the Amazon Prime Free Trial | $3.00 | |
| Amazon Prime Video Free Trial | Successful registration for Amazon Prime Free Trial | A customer who meets the eligibility requirements for the Amazon Prime Free Trial | $2.00 | |
| Amazon Prime Student 6-month Trial | Successful registration for Amazon Student | A customer who meets the eligibility requirements for Amazon Student and who has not previously registered for any version of Amazon Student | $3.00 | |
| Amazon Wedding Registry | Successful creation of, and addition of at least 1 item to, an Amazon Wedding Registry | A customer who meets the eligibility requirements for the creation of an Amazon Wedding Registry and who has not previously created an Amazon Wedding Registry | $3.00 | |
| Audible Audiobook | Not applicable | Bounty-Eligible Purchase of an Audible audiobook on Amazon.com (including purchases made using Audible membership credits, but excluding purchases of free audiobooks) | Any customer | $0.50 |
| Audible Free Trial Digital Membership | Not applicable | Successful registration for an Audible Free Trial on Amazon.com | A customer who meets the eligibility requirements for the Audible Free Trial | $5.00 |
| Audible Gold Digital Membership | Not applicable | Successful registration for an Audible Gold Digital Membership on Amazon.com | A customer who meets the eligibility requirements for the Audible Gold Digital Membership | $10.00 |
| Gift of Audible 1-month Membership Plan | Bounty-Eligible Purchase of a 1-month Audible Gift Membership | Any Customer | $5.00 | |
| Gift of Audible 3-month Membership Plan | Bounty-Eligible Purchase of a 3-month Audible Gift Membership | Any Customer | $8.00 | |
| Gift of Audible 6-month Membership Plan | Bounty-Eligible Purchase of a 6-month Audible Gift Membership | Any Customer | $8.00 | |
| Gift of Audible 12-month Membership Plan | Bounty-Eligible Purchase of a 12-month Audible Gift Membership | Any Customer | $10.00 | |
| Audible Romance | Successful registration for the Audible Romance Package | A customer who meets the eligibility requirements for the Audible Romance Package | $5.00 | |
| Kindle Unlimited Free Trial | Successful registration for Kindle Unlimited Free Trial | A customer who meets the eligibility requirements for the Kindle Unlimited Free Trial | $3.00 | |
| Kindle Unlimited 6- month Paid Membership | Purchase of a 6-month Kindle Unlimited membership | A customer who completes a 6-month Kindle Unlimited membership purchase | $3.00 | |
| Kindle Unlimited 12- month Paid Membership | Purchase of a 12-month Kindle Unlimited membership | A customer who completes a 12-month Kindle Unlimited membership purchase | $5.00 | |
| Kindle Unlimited 24- month Paid Membership | Purchase of a 24-month Kindle Unlimited membership | A customer who completes a Kindle Unlimited 24-month membership purchase | $10.00 | |
| Prime Exclusives | Successful registration for Amazon Prime Free Trial | A customer who meets the eligibility requirements for the Amazon Prime Free Trial | $3.00 | |
| Twitch Prime (sign up of Prime Free Trial and linking to Twitch account) | Connection of Amazon Prime account to Twitch | A customer who meets the eligibility requirements for the Amazon Prime Free Trial | $3.00 | |
| Amazon Prime Pantry | SuccessfulBounty-Eligible first purchase from the Amazon Prime Pantry store | An Amazon Prime customer who has not previously completed a purchase from the Amazon Prime Pantry Store. | $3.00 | |
| Amazon FreeTime Unlimited Free Trial | Successful registration for Amazon FreeTime Unlimited Free Trial | A customer who meets the eligibility requirements for the Amazon FreeTime Unlimited Free Trial | $3.00 | |
| Amazon FreeTime Unlimited 3-month Paid Membership | Purchase of a 3-month Amazon FreeTime Unlimited membership | A customer who completes a 3-month Amazon FreeTime Unlimited membership purchase | $3.00 | |
| Amazon Fresh Products | Successful Bounty-Eligible first purchase from the Amazon Fresh store (excluding Whole Foods) | An Amazon Prime customer who has not previously completed a purchase from the Amazon Fresh store | $3.00 | |
| Prime Video Channels Paid Membership | Successful purchase of an eligible third party video subscription | A customer who completes a 3-month Amazon FreeTime Unlimited membership purchase | $3.00 |
