Used plastic pallets in Alaska

What the jobs data shows for Alaska

The Bureau of Labor Statistics counts private employers in Alaska at 587 warehousing and storage jobs across 30 establishments in 2025, about 19.6 jobs per establishment.

Alaska against the country

Alaska's figures sit on the left and the national totals beside them, so each share and rank shows how much of the country's pallet work lands here.

What the ratios say

Disclosure rules in the BLS data hide small counties, so the county totals for Alaska are a floor and not the whole of its 587 jobs.

• Anchorage Municipality is the only county the BLS discloses for warehousing in Alaska, with 525 jobs, 89% of the state total.
• The average warehouse in Alaska employs 19.6 people where the national average is 81.5, a gap of 76 percent below it.
• Food manufacturing employs 15.13 people for every warehousing job in Alaska; across the US the ratio is 0.93.
• Alaska holds 0.50% of the nation's food manufacturing jobs and 0.03% of its warehousing jobs, so food is the heavier of the two lines here.
• Anchorage Municipality's 525 warehousing jobs are more than the whole state total of 1 other state, the largest being Montana at 428.
• Idaho runs warehouses of nearly the same size, at 16.7 jobs per establishment against 19.6 here.
• For food manufacturing, Nevada is the closest match at 8,424 jobs, 458 below Alaska's 8,882.
• If warehousing jobs were split evenly across 50 states, each would hold 2.0% of the total; Alaska holds 0.03%, which is 0.01 times an even share.
• Vermont sits above Alaska with 470 more warehousing jobs, and Montana sits below with 159 fewer.

Where Alaska ranks

Alaska is one of the 2 smallest states by warehousing jobs. The median state has 23,211, so Alaska is 22,623 jobs below it; California, the largest, has 236,923, or 404 times as many.

The pallet-using lines in Alaska

By location quotient Alaska leans hardest on food manufacturing (2.6x the national share). Food plants ask for clean, odour-free, washable decks. Food-contact papers come from the maker, not from the grade.

• Food manufacturing: 8,882 jobs in Alaska, 0.50% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 15.13 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Grocery and related product wholesale: 1,717 jobs in Alaska, 0.21% of the 829,364 across the US, or 2.93 for every warehousing job in the state.

The ladder around Alaska

States are ranked by warehousing and storage jobs. Alaska is 49th of 50; the table shows the two states above it and the two below.

Alaska has no metro page

Alaska has no page for a single metro, since none of the sixty in the data lies inside it. Requests from anywhere in the state are read as they come, and the reply says how a lot would travel.

Labelling stacks

• Put a card on each stack with footprint, grade and the date it was sorted.
• Use one colour of tape for repaired pallets and another for held ones.
• Keep labels at fork-truck eye level, not on the lowest pallet.
• Update the card when a pallet is removed, so the count stays true.
• Retire old cards instead of writing over them.

Safe handling at the stack

• Lift with the tines fully under the load and tilt back slightly before travelling.
• Never climb a stack, and never stand beside one while it is being moved.
• Take a damaged pallet out of service at once and tag it, so nobody reloads it.
• Keep stack heights even and edges square, since a leaning stack feeds on itself.
• Match tine length to the pallet, because short tines can crack the underside of a deck.

When something looks wrong

• Stop unloading and photograph the fault before anything moves.
• Count how many pallets show the same fault, to see if it is a lot problem or a one-off.
• Tell the desk or the seller in writing the same day, with the photographs attached.
• Hold the affected stacks apart until you hear back.
• Keep one sample pallet unused, so the maker or an inspector can examine it.

Asking for a lot in Alaska

USDA published no refrigerated warehouse figure for Alaska in its October 2025 count, so this page makes no cold-storage claim.

• Start with the footprint: 48 x 40 in or 56 x 44 in
• Then the grade: like new or used and clean
• Give the receiving ZIP in Alaska
• Name a quantity band, a few pallet-loads up to a truck

Other states

• Arizona
• Florida
• Georgia
• Idaho
• Iowa
• Kentucky
• Maine
• Maryland
• Ohio
• Rhode Island
• Texas
• Utah

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