Sell plastic pallets in Connecticut
Connecticut had 25,127 warehousing jobs in 2025, 24th 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
Connecticut in numbers
- Warehousing and storage jobs, 2025
- 25,127 (24th of 50 states)
- Warehousing establishments
- 193 (34th of 50); about 130 jobs each
- Share of US warehousing jobs
- 1.32%
- Food manufacturing jobs
- 9,671 (38th of 50)
- Most concentrated pallet-using industry
- warehousing and storage, 1.2x the national share of employment
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs
- 2,715
- Auto parts jobs
- 2,805
Reading a Connecticut lot
193 establishments employ 25,127 people in Connecticut, about 130 each against 82 for the fifty states. It sits in the middle of the fifty by warehousing jobs. Big sites tend to mean whole-stock lots.
Connecticut has 0.4 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, auto parts (2,805 jobs) is 1.0 times the size of pharmaceutical manufacturing (2,715).
The county table is not published for Connecticut in the federal data used here, so a lot is read by its ZIP and the freight around it. None of the metros in the dossier sits inside Connecticut.
The October 2025 USDA table used here gives no separate figure for Connecticut, so cold-chain lots are read on their photos and what they carried.
What Connecticut's industries put on the dock
- Warehousing and storage: 25,127 jobs, 2025
- Food manufacturing: 9,671 jobs, 2025
Of the industries counted, warehousing and storage sits furthest above the national average in Connecticut, at 1.2 times. Read distribution centers for how its pallets are sorted.
Where Connecticut sits among the fifty
| Measure, 2025 | Connecticut | Next state above | Next state below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warehousing jobs | 24th: 25,127 | Mississippi, 25,454 (+327) | Colorado, 24,541 (-586) |
| Warehousing establishments | 34th: 193 | Arkansas, 218 (+25) | Oklahoma, 186 (-7) |
| Food manufacturing jobs | 38th: 9,671 | South Dakota, 10,866 (+1,195) | Alaska, 8,882 (-789) |
States next to Connecticut
| State | Warehousing jobs | Largest county for warehousing | Food manufacturing jobs | Top concentration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 55,371 | Onondaga (6,329) | 60,316 | food manufacturing |
| Massachusetts | 20,695 | Essex (5,323) | 29,036 | refrigerated warehousing |
| Rhode Island | 5,152 | Not published | 3,769 | warehousing and storage |
Connecticut has fewer warehousing jobs than 1 of these 3 and more than the rest. The largest of them, New York, has 2.2 times Connecticut's 25,127. A lot near a state line can be read against either side, so give the exact ZIP.
Other pallet-using industries counted in Connecticut
| Industry | Jobs, 2025 | Against warehousing jobs |
|---|---|---|
| Pharmaceutical manufacturing | 2,715 | 0.1 to 1 |
| Auto parts | 2,805 | 0.1 to 1 |
Sending a lot from Connecticut
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 Connecticut have?
25,127 private-sector jobs across 193 establishments in 2025, 1.32% of the US total, which ranks Connecticut 24th of 50.
Do you take plastic pallets from Connecticut?
Yes. The desk reads lots from every state, and the ZIP lets it read the route in Connecticut. This site states no price or pickup date.
Which Connecticut industry is most concentrated?
Warehousing and storage, at 1.2 times the national share of employment in the 2025 federal data used here.
Words you will meet
- Static load
- Weight a pallet carries at rest, or the bottom pallet carries when stacked. The highest of the three ratings.
- Edge rack
- Resting on the rack beams by the pallet's edges only, with no support in the middle.
- Virgin resin
- New, unblended resin that has not been through a product before.
- Recycled-content pallet
- A pallet moulded partly or wholly from post-industrial or post-consumer resin.
- Dynamic load
- Weight a pallet carries while moving on a forklift, pallet jack or conveyor.
- Open deck
- Top deck with gaps between slats or ribs; lighter and drains.
- Closed deck
- Solid top deck with no gaps; keeps small items from falling through.
- Runners
- Bottom rails that touch the floor or rack and carry the load.
- Cruciform base
- Bottom with a cross-shaped member as well as a perimeter, for strength and automated handling.
- Lip
- Raised edge on the deck, or an optional soft lip, that keeps the load in place.
- Anti-slip
- Textured deck or rubber grommets that reduce load slip.
- 4-way entry
- Forks or a jack can enter from all four sides.
- 2-way entry
- Forks enter from two opposite sides only.
- Nestable
- Empty pallets stack inside one another, cutting empty storage space by up to 75 percent.
- Nest increment
- How much height each extra nested pallet adds to a stack.
- Rackable
- Rated to sit on rack beams, with a stated racking load.
Who asks, and what they need
- Distribution centres with surplus pallets
- Sell or recycle excess lots, mixed makers and colours, broken pallets.
- Chemical and drum shippers
- 48 x 48 and 45 x 45 pallets for drums and bags; chemical resistance.
- Export shippers
- Light or low-cost one-way pallets with no ISPM 15 treatment; Euro 1200 x 800 and 1200 x 1000 sizes.
What the sources say
- States where dairy product manufacturing is the largest share of private jobs in 2025 (BLS QCEW): Wisconsin (1.1%), Vermont (0.8%), Idaho (0.7%), South Dakota (0.4%), Iowa (0.3%); the national share is 0.13%. (data.bls.gov)
- The Port of New York and New Jersey was the nation's second-busiest port for loaded containers in 2025, per the Port Authority's full-year volume release as reported by Air Freight News. (airfreight.news)
- The five states with the most warehousing and storage jobs held 39% of the national total in 2025, and the top ten held 58% (California, Texas, Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, Indiana, New York), BLS QCEW. (data.bls.gov)
- States where meat and poultry processing is the largest share of private jobs in 2025 (BLS QCEW): Nebraska (3.7%), Arkansas (3.1%), Iowa (2.6%), Delaware (2.4%), Mississippi (2.0%); the national share is 0.42%. (data.bls.gov)
- The five states with the largest gross refrigerated warehouse capacity on October 1, 2025 were California (400 million cubic feet), Georgia (304 million), Washington (301 million), Wisconsin (297 million) and Texas (254 million), per USDA NASS. (esmis.nal.usda.gov)
- Pennsylvania had 228 million cubic feet and New Jersey 137 million of gross refrigerated warehouse space on October 1, 2025 (USDA NASS). (esmis.nal.usda.gov)
- Counties with the most private pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing jobs (NAICS 3254) in 2025, BLS QCEW, counties with disclosed data only: Lake County, Illinois (16,883), Marion County, Indiana (16,292), Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (11,878), Suffolk County, New York (10,760), Los Angeles County, California (8,300), San Diego County, California (8,028). (data.bls.gov)
- Counties with the most private motor vehicle parts manufacturing jobs (NAICS 3363) in 2025, BLS QCEW, counties with disclosed data only: Wayne County, Michigan (20,888), Macomb County, Michigan (20,279), Oakland County, Michigan (16,970), Kent County, Michigan (8,688), Spartanburg County, South Carolina (6,496), Cook County, Illinois (6,273). (data.bls.gov)
- Counties with the most private fruit and vegetable preserving jobs (NAICS 3114) in 2025, BLS QCEW, counties with disclosed data only: Los Angeles County, California (3,695), Stanislaus County, California (3,669), Fresno County, California (3,355), Cook County, Illinois (2,861), Franklin County, Washington (2,520), Marion County, Oregon (2,273). (data.bls.gov)
- States where food manufacturing is the largest share of private jobs in 2025 (BLS QCEW): Nebraska (4.9%), Arkansas (4.7%), Iowa (4.6%), Alaska (3.4%), Wisconsin (3.2%); the national share is 1.33%. (data.bls.gov)
- USDA APHIS lists plastic pallets among products not subject to APHIS regulation, as an alternative to wood packaging material. (aphis.usda.gov)
- The 48 x 40 in GMA pallet makes up about 30 percent of new US wood pallets. (en.wikipedia.org)
- About 500 million pallets are made each year as of 2020, with about 2 billion in use in the US. (en.wikipedia.org)
- FM 4996 passes a pallet if fire is controlled at 5.9 mm/min (0.15 GPM/ft2) within a 10-minute test of eight 1.2 m stacks. (iccsafe.org)
- UL 2335 has an idle pallet test and a commodity storage test. (iccsafe.org)
- In April 2017, HDPE HMW regrind from drums and IBCs was 24 to 27 cents per pound picked up in the US South (historical, not current). (resource-recycling.com)
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