Sell plastic pallets in Utah
Utah had 13,683 warehousing jobs in 2025, 35th among the states, and its most concentrated pallet-using industry is dairy product manufacturing. 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
Utah in numbers
- Warehousing and storage jobs, 2025
- 13,683 (35th of 50 states)
- Warehousing establishments
- 290 (29th of 50); about 47 jobs each
- Share of US warehousing jobs
- 0.72%
- Food manufacturing jobs
- 23,423 (29th of 50)
- Most concentrated pallet-using industry
- dairy product manufacturing, 2.4x the national share of employment
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs
- 7,842
- Auto parts jobs
- 3,691
- Refrigerated warehouse space, October 1, 2025
- 65 million cubic feet (20th of 50)
Reading a Utah lot
Utah ranks 35th for warehousing jobs and 29th for establishments. It sits in the middle of the fifty by warehousing jobs. The average warehouse employs about 47 people, against 82 across the fifty states. Smaller sites mean smaller stacks, so the count matters more than the size of the site.
Utah has 1.7 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 (7,842 jobs) is 2.1 times the size of auto parts (3,691).
Salt Lake County holds 48.4% of Utah's warehousing jobs, and the top 3 listed hold 70.7%. Three counties carry most of the market, and a lot near any of them is close to the most dock activity. The dossier follows one metro in Utah: Salt Lake City-Murray.
USDA counted 65 million cubic feet of refrigerated warehouse space in Utah, 20th of 50 and about 4,750 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 Utah's warehousing jobs sit
| County | Warehousing jobs | Share of the state's total |
|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake | 6,623 | 48.4% |
| Washington | 1,676 | 12.2% |
| Davis | 1,373 | 10.0% |
What Utah's industries put on the dock
- Dairy product manufacturing: 4,388 jobs, 2025
- Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing: 7,842 jobs, 2025
Utah's most concentrated industry is dairy product manufacturing, at 2.4 times the national share of employment. See how lots from dairy plants read.
The metro that matters in Utah
Salt Lake City-Murray. Salt Lake City-Murray: 2 counties (Salt Lake, Tooele). 6,623 private jobs in warehousing and storage in 2025 (0.35% of the US total; 0.9% of local private jobs), disclosed counties only. Largest warehousing counties: Salt Lake (6,623). Most concentrated: food manufacturing at 0.8x the national share of employment. ZIPs with the most warehousing establishments (Census ZBP 2023): 84104 Salt Lake City (54), 84119 West Valley City (13), 84116 Salt Lake City (12), 84120 West Valley City (6), 84081 West Jordan (6).
Where Utah sits among the fifty
| Measure, 2025 | Utah | Next state above | Next state below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warehousing jobs | 35th: 13,683 | Louisiana, 15,312 (+1,629) | Delaware, 12,495 (-1,188) |
| Warehousing establishments | 29th: 290 | Kansas, 293 (+3) | Oregon, 267 (-23) |
| Food manufacturing jobs | 29th: 23,423 | Mississippi, 24,727 (+1,304) | Idaho, 21,363 (-2,060) |
States next to Utah
| State | Warehousing jobs | Largest county for warehousing | Food manufacturing jobs | Top concentration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | 2,445 | Ada (1,025) | 21,363 | fruit and vegetable preserving |
| Wyoming | 1,974 | Laramie (1,747) | 902 | chemical manufacturing |
| Colorado | 24,541 | Adams (12,162) | 26,569 | food manufacturing |
| New Mexico | 5,725 | Doña Ana (411) | 6,374 | dairy product manufacturing |
| Arizona | 52,054 | Maricopa (42,291) | 15,944 | warehousing and storage |
| Nevada | 42,113 | Clark (28,250) | 8,424 | warehousing and storage |
Utah has fewer warehousing jobs than 3 of these 6 and more than the rest. The largest of them, Arizona, has 3.8 times Utah's 13,683. A lot near a state line can be read against either side, so give the exact ZIP.
Other pallet-using industries counted in Utah
| Industry | Jobs, 2025 | Against warehousing jobs |
|---|---|---|
| Pharmaceutical manufacturing | 7,842 | 0.6 to 1 |
| Auto parts | 3,691 | 0.3 to 1 |
Sending a lot from Utah
Count the stacks, give the ZIP where they stand, and use the sorter or the form below. If the dock holds a clean rotated stock, say so in the message.
How many warehousing jobs does Utah have?
13,683 private-sector jobs across 290 establishments in 2025, 0.72% of the US total, which ranks Utah 35th of 50.
Do you take plastic pallets from Utah?
Yes. The desk reads lots from every state, and the ZIP lets it read the route in Utah. This site states no price or pickup date.
Which Utah industry is most concentrated?
Dairy product manufacturing, at 2.4 times the national share of employment in the 2025 federal data used here.
Who asks, and what they need
- Plastic recyclers and pallet makers
- Buy broken pallets by weight as HDPE or PP feedstock; want clean, sorted, separated by resin and colour.
- Pharmaceutical and healthcare shippers
- Hygienic pallets that can be sanitised; documents on resin and colour; PP sometimes preferred for sterilisation.
- Distribution centres with surplus pallets
- Sell or recycle excess lots, mixed makers and colours, broken pallets.
What the sources say
- 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)
- Nestable pallets can cut empty-pallet storage space by up to 75 percent. (blog.containerexchanger.com)
- Cabka says plastic export pallets are exempt from ISPM-15 treatment, that there is no single export size, and that its nestable export designs include extra-lightweight and air-freight versions. (cabka.com)
- Private employers in the US averaged 1,901,976 jobs across 23,345 establishments in warehousing and storage (NAICS 493) in 2025 (BLS QCEW). States with the most jobs: California (236,923), Texas (175,579), Pennsylvania (123,481), Florida (105,401), Ohio (98,354). (data.bls.gov)
- Private employers in the US averaged 892,426 jobs across 25,801 establishments in chemical manufacturing (NAICS 325) in 2025 (BLS QCEW). States with the most jobs: Texas (90,310), California (75,499), Ohio (49,328), Illinois (48,745), New Jersey (47,966). (data.bls.gov)
- Private employers in the US averaged 575,006 jobs across 12,344 establishments in plastics product manufacturing (NAICS 3261) in 2025 (BLS QCEW). States with the most jobs: Ohio (42,286), Texas (40,945), California (35,933), Pennsylvania (34,094), Indiana (33,122). (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)
- 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)
- Port Houston's public terminals handled 4,303,345 TEUs in 2025 (up 4 percent, a record) and 54,491,066 short tons of cargo; the Houston Ship Channel is described as the nation's largest port for waterborne tonnage, with more than 200 private and eight public terminals. (porthouston.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)
- Census Bureau: seasonally adjusted e-commerce sales were $340.2 billion, 17.1 percent of total retail sales, in the second quarter of 2026 (released August 18, 2026). (census.gov)
- Fastmarkets estimates 3.7 billion pallets were in circulation in the US in 2025, and that annual pallet production rose from about 800 million before the pandemic to nearly one billion afterward. (fastmarkets.com)
- 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 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)
- Steel, aluminum, plastic and engineered-wood pallets are exempt from ISPM 15; wood must reach a core temperature of 56 C for at least 30 minutes for heat treatment. (en.wikipedia.org)
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