Sell plastic pallets in Kansas
Kansas had 21,158 warehousing jobs in 2025, 27th among the states, and its most concentrated pallet-using industry is meat and poultry processing. 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
Kansas in numbers
- Warehousing and storage jobs, 2025
- 21,158 (27th of 50 states)
- Warehousing establishments
- 293 (28th of 50); about 72 jobs each
- Share of US warehousing jobs
- 1.11%
- Food manufacturing jobs
- 37,772 (21st of 50)
- Most concentrated pallet-using industry
- meat and poultry processing, 4.0x the national share of employment
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs
- 4,682
- Auto parts jobs
- 2,329
- Refrigerated warehouse space, October 1, 2025
- 46 million cubic feet (25th of 50)
Reading a Kansas lot
Count the warehouses and Kansas comes 28th; count the jobs in them and it comes 27th. It sits in the middle of the fifty by warehousing jobs. With about 72 people a site against a national 82, a lot is often a few stacks from one of many small docks.
Kansas has 1.8 food manufacturing jobs for every warehousing job, against 0.9 across the fifty states. The plants are the bigger half of the picture, and they swap pallets on a schedule more than on wear. Among the other industries counted here, pharmaceutical manufacturing (4,682 jobs) is 2.0 times the size of auto parts (2,329).
Johnson County holds 31.4% of Kansas's warehousing jobs, and the top 3 listed hold 71.3%. Three counties carry most of the market, and a lot near any of them is close to the most dock activity. None of the metros in the dossier sits inside Kansas, so a lot is read by its ZIP.
USDA counted 46 million cubic feet of refrigerated warehouse space in Kansas, 25th of 50 and about 2,174 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 Kansas's warehousing jobs sit
| County | Warehousing jobs | Share of the state's total |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson | 6,642 | 31.4% |
| Wyandotte | 6,378 | 30.1% |
| Shawnee | 2,074 | 9.8% |
What Kansas's industries put on the dock
- Meat and poultry processing: 19,716 jobs, 2025
- Food manufacturing: 37,772 jobs, 2025
- Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing: 4,682 jobs, 2025
- Plastics product manufacturing: 7,339 jobs, 2025
By location quotient meat and poultry processing leads in Kansas, with 4.0 times the national share of employment. The page on meat and poultry plants shows what that industry sets down on a dock.
Where Kansas sits among the fifty
| Measure, 2025 | Kansas | Next state above | Next state below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warehousing jobs | 27th: 21,158 | Alabama, 21,880 (+722) | Massachusetts, 20,695 (-463) |
| Warehousing establishments | 28th: 293 | Colorado, 304 (+11) | Utah, 290 (-3) |
| Food manufacturing jobs | 21st: 37,772 | Florida, 39,390 (+1,618) | Alabama, 33,728 (-4,044) |
States next to Kansas
| State | Warehousing jobs | Largest county for warehousing | Food manufacturing jobs | Top concentration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska | 8,246 | Sarpy (3,613) | 41,939 | meat and poultry processing |
| Missouri | 26,726 | St. Charles (5,782) | 45,268 | motor vehicle manufacturing |
| Oklahoma | 19,669 | Oklahoma (8,307) | 20,047 | meat and poultry processing |
| Colorado | 24,541 | Adams (12,162) | 26,569 | food manufacturing |
Kansas has fewer warehousing jobs than 2 of these 4 and more than the rest. The largest of them, Missouri, has 1.3 times Kansas's 21,158. A lot near a state line can be read against either side, so give the exact ZIP.
Other pallet-using industries counted in Kansas
| Industry | Jobs, 2025 | Against warehousing jobs |
|---|---|---|
| Pharmaceutical manufacturing | 4,682 | 0.2 to 1 |
| Auto parts | 2,329 | 0.1 to 1 |
Sending a lot from Kansas
Count the stacks, give the ZIP where they stand, and use the sorter or the form below. If the dock holds a clean line-change stock, say so in the message.
How many warehousing jobs does Kansas have?
21,158 private-sector jobs across 293 establishments in 2025, 1.11% of the US total, which ranks Kansas 27th of 50.
Do you take plastic pallets from Kansas?
Yes. The desk reads lots from every state, and the ZIP lets it read the route in Kansas. This site states no price or pickup date.
Which Kansas industry is most concentrated?
Meat and poultry processing, at 4.0 times the national share of employment in the 2025 federal data used here.
Words you will meet
- Closed deck
- Solid top deck with no gaps; keeps small items from falling through.
- Captive pallet
- A pallet owned and kept inside one company or loop.
- Commodity classification
- Sprinkler design class of stored goods; an unlisted plastic pallet can raise it.
- Creep
- Slow bending of plastic under a heavy load held for a long time.
- Rotational moulding
- Resin heated in a rotating mould to make a hollow jointless part.
- Recycled-content pallet
- A pallet moulded partly or wholly from post-industrial or post-consumer resin.
- Open deck
- Top deck with gaps between slats or ribs; lighter and drains.
- 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.
- 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.
- Fork pocket
- Opening in the pallet where the forks go.
- One-way pallet
- A cheaper pallet shipped with the load and not expected back.
Who asks, and what they need
- 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.
- Export shippers
- Light or low-cost one-way pallets with no ISPM 15 treatment; Euro 1200 x 800 and 1200 x 1000 sizes.
- Warehouses with automated storage
- Rackable pallets with a stated rack rating, cruciform base, consistent size for conveyors.
What the sources say
- Counties with the most private meat and poultry processing jobs (NAICS 3116) in 2025, BLS QCEW, counties with disclosed data only: Hall County, Georgia (11,123), Cook County, Illinois (8,367), Sussex County, Delaware (8,212), Marshall County, Alabama (7,387), Fresno County, California (6,499), Douglas County, Nebraska (6,452). (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)
- Rehrig Pacific's 40 x 48 heavy-duty nestable pallet is 48.25 x 40.25 x 6.5 in, weighs 28.5 lb, is rated 10,000 lb static and 3,500 lb dynamic, has a 2.55 in nest increment and 1,200 units per 53 ft trailer; the page lists no racking rating. (rehrigpacific.com)
- Private employers in the US averaged 288,633 jobs across 934 establishments in motor vehicle manufacturing (NAICS 3361) in 2025 (BLS QCEW). States with the most jobs: Michigan (44,870), Texas (28,069), California (27,690), Kentucky (23,308), Alabama (22,311). (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)
- 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)
- Rehrig Pacific's 40 x 48 standard-duty nestable pallet weighs 26.5 lb with a static rating of 10,000 lb and dynamic 3,000 lb. (rehrigpacific.com)
- That nestable has a 2.50 in nest increment and 1,260 units per 53 ft trailer. (rehrigpacific.com)
- Rehrig Pacific offers the standard-duty nestable with recycled content of up to 90 percent in black, and describes it as 100 percent recyclable. (rehrigpacific.com)
- That used pallet is listed as pharma and food safe but not approved for direct food contact, in colours that vary. (nelsoncompany.com)
- Static capacity is the highest of the three ratings; racking is often the lowest; dynamic is always lower than static. (nelsoncompany.com)
- Pallet capacities are issued by the manufacturer from calculation and lab or field tests, and assume an evenly distributed load. (nelsoncompany.com)
- Freezing can make some pallet materials brittle and reduce performance. (nelsoncompany.com)
- PHS lists a 48 x 48 stackable pallet (STK 207) at 4,000 lb dynamic and 30,000 lb static. (phsinc.com)
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