Sell plastic pallets in Wyoming
Wyoming had 1,974 warehousing jobs in 2025, 45th among the states, and its most concentrated pallet-using industry is chemical 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
Wyoming in numbers
- Warehousing and storage jobs, 2025
- 1,974 (45th of 50 states)
- Warehousing establishments
- 23 (50th of 50); about 86 jobs each
- Share of US warehousing jobs
- 0.10%
- Food manufacturing jobs
- 902 (50th of 50)
- Most concentrated pallet-using industry
- chemical manufacturing, 1.3x the national share of employment
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs
- 65
- Auto parts jobs
- 23
Reading a Wyoming lot
Count the warehouses and Wyoming comes 50th; count the jobs in them and it comes 45th. It is one of the smaller warehousing states, so a lot here is rarely one of many on the same road. With about 86 people a site against a national 82, a single dock here can hold a truckload at once.
Wyoming has 0.5 food manufacturing jobs for every warehousing job, against 0.9 across the fifty states. Distribution carries more weight than food production, and a dock that receives from many suppliers collects many marks. Among the other industries counted here, pharmaceutical manufacturing (65 jobs) is 2.8 times the size of auto parts (23).
Laramie County holds 88.5% of Wyoming's warehousing jobs, and the top 2 listed hold 90.6%. One county carries more than half the state's warehousing, so a lot outside it is a longer haul. None of the metros in the dossier sits inside Wyoming, so a lot is read by its ZIP.
The October 2025 USDA table used here gives no separate figure for Wyoming, so cold-chain lots are read on their photos and what they carried.
Where Wyoming's warehousing jobs sit
| County | Warehousing jobs | Share of the state's total |
|---|---|---|
| Laramie | 1,747 | 88.5% |
| Albany | 42 | 2.1% |
What Wyoming's industries put on the dock
- Chemical manufacturing: 1,811 jobs, 2025
- Warehousing and storage: 1,974 jobs, 2025
By location quotient chemical manufacturing leads in Wyoming, with 1.3 times the national share of employment. The page on chemical plants shows what that industry sets down on a dock.
Where Wyoming sits among the fifty
| Measure, 2025 | Wyoming | Next state above | Next state below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warehousing jobs | 45th: 1,974 | Idaho, 2,445 (+471) | North Dakota, 1,438 (-536) |
| Warehousing establishments | 50th: 23 | Alaska, 30 (+7) | None: this is the end of the table |
| Food manufacturing jobs | 50th: 902 | Montana, 2,492 (+1,590) | None: this is the end of the table |
States next to Wyoming
| State | Warehousing jobs | Largest county for warehousing | Food manufacturing jobs | Top concentration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 428 | Yellowstone (122) | 2,492 | food manufacturing |
| South Dakota | 3,269 | Minnehaha (2,930) | 10,866 | meat and poultry processing |
| Nebraska | 8,246 | Sarpy (3,613) | 41,939 | meat and poultry processing |
| Colorado | 24,541 | Adams (12,162) | 26,569 | food manufacturing |
| Utah | 13,683 | Salt Lake (6,623) | 23,423 | dairy product manufacturing |
| Idaho | 2,445 | Ada (1,025) | 21,363 | fruit and vegetable preserving |
Wyoming has fewer warehousing jobs than 5 of these 6 and more than the rest. The largest of them, Colorado, has 12 times Wyoming's 1,974. A lot near a state line can be read against either side, so give the exact ZIP.
Other pallet-using industries counted in Wyoming
| Industry | Jobs, 2025 | Against warehousing jobs |
|---|---|---|
| Pharmaceutical manufacturing | 65 | 0.0 to 1 |
| Auto parts | 23 | 0.0 to 1 |
Sending a lot from Wyoming
Count the stacks, give the ZIP where they stand, and use the sorter or the form below. If the dock holds a retired drum or bag footprint, say so in the message.
How many warehousing jobs does Wyoming have?
1,974 private-sector jobs across 23 establishments in 2025, 0.10% of the US total, which ranks Wyoming 45th of 50.
Do you take plastic pallets from Wyoming?
Yes. The desk reads lots from every state, and the ZIP lets it read the route in Wyoming. This site states no price or pickup date.
Which Wyoming industry is most concentrated?
Chemical manufacturing, at 1.3 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.
- 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.
- Pooling
- Renting pallets from a company that owns, tracks and collects them instead of buying.
- Profile extrusion
- Pushing resin through a die to make long shapes that form pallet parts.
- GMA pallet
- The 48 x 40 in North American standard footprint.
- Welding repair
- Plastic is hard to glue, so cracked parts are normally welded.
- 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.
- Stackable
- Loaded pallets can sit on top of each other, up to the static rating.
- Heat treated (HT)
- ISPM 15 treatment for wood: core at 56 C for 30 minutes. Not needed for plastic.
- 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.
- Euro pallet
- 800 x 1200 mm footprint.
- Resin identification code
- Number on a plastic part for the resin, which does not itself say whether it is recyclable.
- Recycled-content pallet
- A pallet moulded partly or wholly from post-industrial or post-consumer resin.
Who asks, and what they need
- Chemical and drum shippers
- 48 x 48 and 45 x 45 pallets for drums and bags; chemical resistance.
- Plants changing packaging or pallet size
- Retire a whole stock of one footprint at once; want it sold or ground up, not landfilled.
- 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
- PHS lists its EXP 100 nestable (48 x 40 x 5.2 in) at 78 pallets per stack and 2,340 per truckload, and its EXP 116 (48 x 40 x 5.75 in, 15,000 lb static) at 40 per stack and 1,260 per truckload: a higher static rating comes with fewer pallets per stack. (phsinc.com)
- EPA's 2018 municipal solid waste data: plastics generation was 35.68 million tons, of which 3.09 million tons (8.7 percent) were recycled and 26.97 million tons landfilled; natural HDPE bottles were recycled at 29.3 percent. The page gives no pallet-specific or polypropylene figure. (epa.gov)
- 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)
- The 800 x 1200 mm Euro footprint is the second most popular plastic pallet size worldwide. (blog.containerexchanger.com)
- Nelson Company defines dynamic capacity as the load a pallet carries in motion, always below static; static as the load at rest and the bottom pallet's limit in a stack; racking as the load across an open rack span, often the lowest and given only for pallets designed for it. (nelsoncompany.com)
- 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 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)
- Plastic pallets can deform (creep) under heavy long-term loads and are hard to repair. (en.wikipedia.org)
- NFPA requires wood and plastic pallets to be stored outdoors or in a detached structure unless sprinklers protect them. (en.wikipedia.org)
- The International Fire Code permits pallets listed and labeled under FM 4996 or UL 2335 to be treated as wood pallets for sprinkler design. (iccsafe.org)
- Advanced composite material pallets are 100 percent recycled polyolefins, cheaper with a shorter life, and suit export where the pallet is not returned. (nelsoncompany.com)
- For products touching the pallet directly, stricter federal requirements may call for non-blended virgin HDPE; recycled pallets often meet general FDA needs. (nelsoncompany.com)
- 43 x 43 in pallets are designed for bulk bags; 45 x 45 in is the CP9 chemical standard. (nelsoncompany.com)
- PHS Plastic lists 19 nestable 48 x 40 and other-footprint models with dynamic ratings from 1,102 to 3,500 lb and static ratings from 2,204 to 15,000 lb, so 'nestable' spans light export pallets to heavy-duty stackers. (phsinc.com)
- 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 521,212 jobs across 6,414 establishments in motor vehicle parts manufacturing (NAICS 3363) in 2025 (BLS QCEW). States with the most jobs: Michigan (111,465), Ohio (62,025), Indiana (52,146), Tennessee (38,791), Kentucky (32,261). (data.bls.gov)
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