Sell plastic pallets in Massachusetts
Massachusetts had 20,695 warehousing jobs in 2025, 28th among the states, and its most concentrated pallet-using industry is refrigerated warehousing. 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
Massachusetts in numbers
- Warehousing and storage jobs, 2025
- 20,695 (28th of 50 states)
- Warehousing establishments
- 248 (31st of 50); about 83 jobs each
- Share of US warehousing jobs
- 1.09%
- Food manufacturing jobs
- 29,036 (25th of 50)
- Most concentrated pallet-using industry
- refrigerated warehousing, 1.9x the national share of employment
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs
- 10,179
- Auto parts jobs
- 199
- Refrigerated warehouse space, October 1, 2025
- 54 million cubic feet (23rd of 50)
Reading a Massachusetts lot
Massachusetts ranks 28th for warehousing jobs and 31st for establishments. It sits in the middle of the fifty by warehousing jobs. The average warehouse employs about 83 people, against 82 across the fifty states. Larger sites mean larger stacks, so lots tend to arrive as whole stocks.
Massachusetts has 1.4 food manufacturing jobs for every warehousing job, against 0.9 across the fifty states. Food plants carry more weight here than the warehouses beside them, so expect hygienic decks and rotated stock. Among the other industries counted here, pharmaceutical manufacturing (10,179 jobs) is 51 times the size of auto parts (199).
Essex County holds 25.7% of Massachusetts's warehousing jobs, and the top 3 listed hold 61.2%. 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 Massachusetts, so a lot is read by its ZIP.
USDA counted 54 million cubic feet of refrigerated warehouse space in Massachusetts, 23rd of 50 and about 2,609 cubic feet for each warehousing job, against 2,254 across the states it reports. Cold storage is a bigger part of the picture here, so expect cold-chain lots: decks that tolerate cold and moisture, and questions about washdown.
Where Massachusetts's warehousing jobs sit
| County | Warehousing jobs | Share of the state's total |
|---|---|---|
| Essex | 5,323 | 25.7% |
| Worcester | 4,052 | 19.6% |
| Bristol | 3,283 | 15.9% |
What Massachusetts's industries put on the dock
- Refrigerated warehousing: 3,299 jobs, 2025
- Food manufacturing: 29,036 jobs, 2025
Massachusetts's most concentrated industry is refrigerated warehousing, at 1.9 times the national share of employment. See how lots from cold storage and logistics read.
Where Massachusetts sits among the fifty
| Measure, 2025 | Massachusetts | Next state above | Next state below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warehousing jobs | 28th: 20,695 | Kansas, 21,158 (+463) | Iowa, 19,824 (-871) |
| Warehousing establishments | 31st: 248 | Oregon, 267 (+19) | Maryland, 245 (-3) |
| Food manufacturing jobs | 25th: 29,036 | Kentucky, 31,273 (+2,237) | Oregon, 28,203 (-833) |
States next to Massachusetts
| State | Warehousing jobs | Largest county for warehousing | Food manufacturing jobs | Top concentration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | 3,283 | Rockingham (1,838) | 2,774 | plastics product manufacturing |
| Vermont | 1,057 | Franklin (342) | 5,348 | dairy product manufacturing |
| New York | 55,371 | Onondaga (6,329) | 60,316 | food manufacturing |
| Connecticut | 25,127 | Not published | 9,671 | warehousing and storage |
| Rhode Island | 5,152 | Not published | 3,769 | warehousing and storage |
Massachusetts has fewer warehousing jobs than 2 of these 5 and more than the rest. The largest of them, New York, has 2.7 times Massachusetts's 20,695. A lot near a state line can be read against either side, so give the exact ZIP.
Other pallet-using industries counted in Massachusetts
| Industry | Jobs, 2025 | Against warehousing jobs |
|---|---|---|
| Pharmaceutical manufacturing | 10,179 | 0.5 to 1 |
| Auto parts | 199 | 0.0 to 1 |
Sending a lot from Massachusetts
Count the stacks, give the ZIP where they stand, and use the sorter or the form below. If the dock holds a rotated cold-store stock, say so in the message.
How many warehousing jobs does Massachusetts have?
20,695 private-sector jobs across 248 establishments in 2025, 1.09% of the US total, which ranks Massachusetts 28th of 50.
Do you take plastic pallets from Massachusetts?
Yes. The desk reads lots from every state, and the ZIP lets it read the route in Massachusetts. This site states no price or pickup date.
Which Massachusetts industry is most concentrated?
Refrigerated warehousing, at 1.9 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.
- Closed loop
- Pallets that travel between known sites and come back, so they are never lost to a downstream user.
- Profile extrusion
- Pushing resin through a die to make long shapes that form pallet parts.
- Welding repair
- Plastic is hard to glue, so cracked parts are normally welded.
- Resin identification code
- Number on a plastic part for the resin, which does not itself say whether it is recyclable.
- PP
- Polypropylene. More rigid than HDPE and better with heat and harsh chemicals; used where rack stiffness matters.
- Regrind
- Plastic ground from used or scrap parts into flakes for moulding again.
- Virgin resin
- New, unblended resin that has not been through a product before.
- Dynamic load
- Weight a pallet carries while moving on a forklift, pallet jack or conveyor.
- Racking load
- Weight a pallet carries bridging an open span in unsupported racking. Often the lowest rating.
- Edge rack
- Resting on the rack beams by the pallet's edges only, with no support in the middle.
- Runners
- Bottom rails that touch the floor or rack and carry the load.
- Picture frame
- A raised rim around the deck edge that keeps cartons from sliding off.
- Nestable
- Empty pallets stack inside one another, cutting empty storage space by up to 75 percent.
- Stackable
- Loaded pallets can sit on top of each other, up to the static rating.
- Pooling
- Renting pallets from a company that owns, tracks and collects them instead of buying.
Who asks, and what they need
- Pharmaceutical and healthcare shippers
- Hygienic pallets that can be sanitised; documents on resin and colour; PP sometimes preferred for sterilisation.
- 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.
- Automotive plants and suppliers
- 48 x 45 pallets that match bulk containers; closed-loop reuse; heavy dynamic and static loads.
What the sources say
- USDA NASS counted 3.99 billion cubic feet of gross refrigerated warehouse capacity in the US on October 1, 2025, with usable capacity of 3.25 billion cubic feet (82 percent of gross). (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)
- About 500 million pallets are made each year as of 2020, with about 2 billion in use in the US. (en.wikipedia.org)
- Metal pallets are under 1 percent of the pallet market. (en.wikipedia.org)
- Greystone Logistics processed about 60 million pounds of recycled plastic in the year ended May 31, 2024, using damaged plastic pallets from a buy-back program among its feedstock. (resource-recycling.com)
- 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)
- Georgia Ports Authority moved 5.7 million TEUs in fiscal year 2025 (July 2024 to June 2025), up 8.6 percent or 450,000 TEUs, the Port of Savannah's second-busiest year after 5.76 million in FY2022. (container-news.com)
- 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)
- 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)
- Resin identification codes do not indicate whether a product is recyclable; ASTM D7611 governs the coding. (en.wikipedia.org)
- A 48 x 40 pallet fits 30 stacks in a turned pattern on a 53 ft dry van, per one supplier. (nelsoncompany.com)
- Private employers in the US averaged 168,222 jobs across 2,809 establishments in dairy product manufacturing (NAICS 3115) in 2025 (BLS QCEW). States with the most jobs: Wisconsin (28,840), California (18,374), New York (11,603), Ohio (8,963), Texas (7,529). (data.bls.gov)
- Warehousing and storage (NAICS 493) was 1.4% of the 133,160,274 private-sector jobs QCEW counted in the US in 2025. (data.bls.gov)
- Port of Long Beach moved a record 9,881,595 TEUs in 2025 (imports 4,779,559; exports 1,141,113; empties 3,960,925), per Container News reporting the port's year-end results. (container-news.com)
- Counties with the most private dairy product manufacturing jobs (NAICS 3115) in 2025, BLS QCEW, counties with disclosed data only: Sheboygan County, Wisconsin (3,238), Los Angeles County, California (3,204), Franklin County, Ohio (2,930), Tulare County, California (2,916), Dodge County, Wisconsin (2,659), Marathon County, Wisconsin (2,535). (data.bls.gov)
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