Sell plastic pallets in Arizona
Arizona had 52,054 warehousing jobs in 2025, 13th among the states, and its most concentrated pallet-using industry is warehousing and storage. Send the lot with its ZIP; the desk reads size, style, grade and marks, and rules it sold, returned or scrapped.
Last reviewed November 12, 2026
Arizona in numbers
- Warehousing and storage jobs, 2025
- 52,054 (13th of 50 states)
- Warehousing establishments
- 345 (21st of 50); about 151 jobs each
- Share of US warehousing jobs
- 2.74%
- Food manufacturing jobs
- 15,944 (35th of 50)
- Most concentrated pallet-using industry
- warehousing and storage, 1.3x the national share of employment
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs
- 4,977
- Auto parts jobs
- 2,392
- Refrigerated warehouse space, October 1, 2025
- 4 million cubic feet (36th of 50)
Reading an Arizona lot
345 establishments employ 52,054 people in Arizona, about 151 each against 82 for the fifty states. It sits in the upper third of the fifty by warehousing jobs. Big sites tend to mean whole-stock lots.
Arizona has 0.3 food manufacturing jobs for every warehousing job, against 0.9 across the fifty states. Warehouses outweigh the food plants around them, which favours mixed docks and strays from many suppliers. Among the other industries counted here, pharmaceutical manufacturing (4,977 jobs) is 2.1 times the size of auto parts (2,392).
Maricopa County holds 81.2% of Arizona's warehousing jobs, and the top 3 listed hold 99.1%. One county carries more than half the state's warehousing, so a lot outside it is a longer haul. The dossier follows one metro in Arizona: Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler.
USDA counted 4 million cubic feet of refrigerated warehouse space in Arizona, 36th of 50 and about 77 cubic feet for each warehousing job, against 2,254 across the states it reports. Cold storage is a smaller part of the picture here, so most lots come off ambient docks.
Where Arizona's warehousing jobs sit
| County | Warehousing jobs | Share of the state's total |
|---|---|---|
| Maricopa | 42,291 | 81.2% |
| Pima | 8,731 | 16.8% |
| Santa Cruz | 572 | 1.1% |
What Arizona's industries put on the dock
- Warehousing and storage: 52,054 jobs, 2025
- Food manufacturing: 15,944 jobs, 2025
Of the industries counted, warehousing and storage sits furthest above the national average in Arizona, at 1.3 times. Read distribution centers for how its pallets are sorted.
The metro that matters in Arizona
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler. Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler: 2 counties (Maricopa, Pinal). 42,340 private jobs in warehousing and storage in 2025 (2.23% of the US total; 2.0% of local private jobs). Largest warehousing counties: Maricopa (42,291), Pinal (49). Most concentrated: warehousing and storage at 1.4x the national share of employment. ZIPs with the most warehousing establishments (Census ZBP 2023): 85043 Phoenix (61), 85353 Tolleson (21), 85009 Phoenix (20), 85034 Phoenix (15), 85040 Phoenix (11).
Where Arizona sits among the fifty
| Measure, 2025 | Arizona | Next state above | Next state below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warehousing jobs | 13th: 52,054 | Tennessee, 53,427 (+1,373) | Virginia, 51,123 (-931) |
| Warehousing establishments | 21st: 345 | Wisconsin, 428 (+83) | Iowa, 338 (-7) |
| Food manufacturing jobs | 35th: 15,944 | Louisiana, 16,970 (+1,026) | Delaware, 11,157 (-4,787) |
States next to Arizona
| State | Warehousing jobs | Largest county for warehousing | Food manufacturing jobs | Top concentration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | 236,923 | San Bernardino (67,058) | 166,660 | beverage manufacturing |
| Nevada | 42,113 | Clark (28,250) | 8,424 | warehousing and storage |
| Utah | 13,683 | Salt Lake (6,623) | 23,423 | dairy product manufacturing |
| New Mexico | 5,725 | Doña Ana (411) | 6,374 | dairy product manufacturing |
Arizona has fewer warehousing jobs than 1 of these 4 and more than the rest. The largest of them, California, has 4.6 times Arizona's 52,054. A lot near a state line can be read against either side, so give the exact ZIP.
More on Arizona from the sources
- Counties with the most private warehousing and storage jobs (NAICS 493) in 2025, BLS QCEW: San Bernardino County, California (67,058), Riverside County, California (51,310), Dallas County, Texas (44,657), Maricopa County, Arizona (42,291), San Joaquin County, California (28,518), Clark County, Nevada (28,250), Middlesex County, New Jersey (26,309), Will County, Illinois (25,357). (data.bls.gov)
- Counties with the most private grocery and related product wholesale jobs (NAICS 4244) in 2025, BLS QCEW, counties with disclosed data only: Los Angeles County, California (36,194), Cook County, Illinois (23,404), Miami-Dade County, Florida (14,422), Harris County, Texas (14,172), Dallas County, Texas (12,337), Maricopa County, Arizona (9,996). (data.bls.gov)
- Counties with the most private refrigerated warehousing jobs (NAICS 49312) in 2025, BLS QCEW, counties with disclosed data only: Los Angeles County, California (2,320), Middlesex County, New Jersey (1,661), San Bernardino County, California (1,565), Cook County, Illinois (1,552), Wayne County, Michigan (1,041), Maricopa County, Arizona (871). (data.bls.gov)
Other pallet-using industries counted in Arizona
| Industry | Jobs, 2025 | Against warehousing jobs |
|---|---|---|
| Pharmaceutical manufacturing | 4,977 | 0.1 to 1 |
| Auto parts | 2,392 | 0.0 to 1 |
Sending a lot from Arizona
Count the stacks, give the ZIP where they stand, and use the sorter or the form below. If the dock holds strays and a mixed dock, say so in the message.
How many warehousing jobs does Arizona have?
52,054 private-sector jobs across 345 establishments in 2025, 2.74% of the US total, which ranks Arizona 13th of 50.
Do you take plastic pallets from Arizona?
Yes. The desk reads lots from every state, and the ZIP lets it read the route in Arizona. This site states no price or pickup date.
Which Arizona industry is most concentrated?
Warehousing and storage, at 1.3 times the national share of employment in the 2025 federal data used here.
Who asks, and what they need
- Distribution centres with surplus pallets
- Sell or recycle excess lots, mixed makers and colours, broken pallets.
- Retailers that collect pooled or one-way pallets
- Stacks of marked and unmarked pallets left by suppliers; need to know which can be sold and which belong to a pool.
- Food and beverage distributors and bottlers
- Clean, odour-free, washable pallets; open or closed deck; 56 x 44 beverage and 48 x 40 sizes; often asks about food-contact paperwork.
What the sources say
- Counties with the most private grocery and related product wholesale jobs (NAICS 4244) in 2025, BLS QCEW, counties with disclosed data only: Los Angeles County, California (36,194), Cook County, Illinois (23,404), Miami-Dade County, Florida (14,422), Harris County, Texas (14,172), Dallas County, Texas (12,337), Maricopa County, Arizona (9,996). (data.bls.gov)
- Counties with the most private warehousing and storage jobs (NAICS 493) in 2025, BLS QCEW: San Bernardino County, California (67,058), Riverside County, California (51,310), Dallas County, Texas (44,657), Maricopa County, Arizona (42,291), San Joaquin County, California (28,518), Clark County, Nevada (28,250), Middlesex County, New Jersey (26,309), Will County, Illinois (25,357). (data.bls.gov)
- Counties with the most private refrigerated warehousing jobs (NAICS 49312) in 2025, BLS QCEW, counties with disclosed data only: Los Angeles County, California (2,320), Middlesex County, New Jersey (1,661), San Bernardino County, California (1,565), Cook County, Illinois (1,552), Wayne County, Michigan (1,041), Maricopa County, Arizona (871). (data.bls.gov)
- Private employers in the US averaged 829,364 jobs across 49,933 establishments in grocery and related product wholesale (NAICS 4244) in 2025 (BLS QCEW). States with the most jobs: California (109,827), Texas (75,474), Florida (63,967), New York (50,594), Illinois (48,629). (data.bls.gov)
- Counties with the most private motor vehicle manufacturing jobs (NAICS 3361) in 2025, BLS QCEW, counties with disclosed data only: Wayne County, Michigan (24,188), Bexar County, Texas (6,165), Cook County, Illinois (5,473), Eaton County, Michigan (4,432), Oakland County, Michigan (735), Los Angeles County, California (643). (data.bls.gov)
- PHS lists a 56 x 44 beverage pallet (STK 285) at 2,500 lb dynamic and 30,000 lb static. (phsinc.com)
- Resin identification codes do not indicate whether a product is recyclable; ASTM D7611 governs the coding. (en.wikipedia.org)
- CHEP USA sued two California recyclers over CHEP-marked pallets they would not return; a Los Angeles court granted CHEP's motion to retrieve pallets in one case (article dated February 1, 2024). (palletenterprise.com)
- In December 2011 a Los Angeles County Sheriff task force recovered over $250,000 of illegally obtained plastic pallets, including iGPS pallets, from a plastic recycler. (eponline.com)
- Port Houston says it supports 1.54 million jobs in Texas and 3.37 million nationwide, and that its 2025 growth included petrochemical and industrial shipments, manufacturing-related freight and consumer imports. (porthouston.com)
- USDA APHIS requires wood packaging material entering the US to be treated and certified under ISPM 15, and lists plastic pallets among alternatives that are not subject to APHIS regulation. (aphis.usda.gov)
- Wood packaging material entering the US must be treated and certified per ISPM 15. (aphis.usda.gov)
- That Nelson model is under 5 in tall, which the page says suits air freight, and works with automation and most roller conveyors. (nelsoncompany.com)
- Rehrig Pacific's 40 x 48 rackable pallet weighs 44.2 lb with a dynamic rating of 4,000 lb, static 10,000 lb and edge rack 2,000 lb. (rehrigpacific.com)
- Rehrig Pacific's 40 x 48 rackable pallet is high-pressure injection molded co-polymer polypropylene, with 540 per 53 ft trailer. (rehrigpacific.com)
- Rehrig Pacific's rackable pallet has a two-piece snap-lock design for quick repair and options for FDA-approved colours, RFID and up to 15 percent black recycled content. (rehrigpacific.com)
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