Used plastic pallets in Arizona

Where Arizona's pallet work sits

Warehousing and storage in Arizona employed 52,054 people at 345 sites in 2025, an average of 150.9 per site, by the BLS count of private employers.

• Maricopa County: 42,291 warehousing jobs, 81% of Arizona and 2.2% of the country, 4.8 times Pima County.
• Pima County: 8,731 warehousing jobs, 17% of Arizona and 0.46% of the country, 21% of the size of Maricopa County.
• Santa Cruz County: 572 warehousing jobs, 1.1% of Arizona and 0.03% of the country, 1% of the size of Maricopa County.

Arizona against the country

Each line is Arizona's private-sector figure beside the national total, with the share it makes up and, where the data allows, its rank among the fifty states.

What the ratios say

The BLS withholds counties where a figure would identify one employer, which means the 3 counties shown for Arizona understate what the state holds.

• The three largest warehousing counties hold 99% of Arizona's jobs in the line, and Maricopa County alone holds 81%.
• Size of site: 150.9 jobs in the typical Arizona warehouse, more than the 81.5 found across the country (85 percent more).
• Food manufacturing employs 0.31 people for every warehousing job in Arizona; across the US the ratio is 0.93.
• Arizona holds 0.90% of the nation's food manufacturing jobs and 2.7% of its warehousing jobs, so food is the lighter of the two lines here.
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing adds 4,977 jobs, 1.4% of the US total.
• Refrigerated space works out at 77 cubic feet for every warehousing job, against 2,098 nationally.
• The metro below accounts for 81% of the state's warehousing jobs, counting disclosed counties only.
• Maricopa County's 42,291 warehousing jobs are more than the whole state total of 36 other states, the largest being Nevada at 42,113.
• Connecticut runs warehouses of nearly the same size, at 130.2 jobs per establishment against 150.9 here.
• For food manufacturing, Louisiana is the closest match at 16,970 jobs, 1,026 above Arizona's 15,944.
• The smallest county the BLS shows for Arizona is Santa Cruz County with 572 jobs; the largest has 73.9 times as many.
• If warehousing jobs were split evenly across 50 states, each would hold 2.0% of the total; Arizona holds 2.74%, which is 1.37 times an even share.
• Tennessee sits above Arizona with 1,373 more warehousing jobs, and Virginia sits below with 931 fewer.

Where Arizona ranks

Arizona and the 12 states above it hold 66% of the country's 1,901,976 warehousing jobs between them. The median state has 23,211, so Arizona is 28,844 jobs above it; California, the largest, has 236,923, or 5 times as many.

Industries that use pallets in Arizona

The line that stands out in Arizona is warehousing and storage, 1.3 times as concentrated as it is across the US. Warehouses with automated storage need a consistent size for conveyors and a rack rating they can read.

• Warehousing and storage: 52,054 jobs in Arizona, 2.7% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Food manufacturing: 15,944 jobs in Arizona, 0.90% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 0.31 for every warehousing job in the state.

The ladder around Arizona

At 13th of 50 states by warehousing jobs, Arizona has these neighbours in the ranking, two above and two below.

Metros we list in Arizona

One metro in Arizona has a page with ZIPs, counties and corridors.

Sorting a lot into piles

• Pile one: whole pallets with flat decks, square corners and no repairs.
• Pile two: whole pallets with a repair or a mismatched piece, kept separate and counted.
• Pile three: pallets with a crack through a load path, set aside for repair or scrap.
• Pile four: marked pallets that may belong to someone else, held until the owner is known.
• Write the pile count on a board by the stacks, and photograph it each morning.

Storing a lot properly

• Keep stacks on a flat, dry slab, away from heaters, doorways and loading-bay draughts.
• Limit stack height to what the bottom pallet and the lift truck can safely manage.
• Shield pallets from sunlight with a tarp or a roof, since ultraviolet light chalks and embrittles some resins.
• Separate footprints, makers and grades with floor markings so pickers never guess.
• Leave an aisle wide enough for a fork truck to turn without clipping a corner.

What to put on a request from Arizona

USDA counted 4 million cubic feet of gross refrigerated warehouse space in Arizona on 1 October 2025, 36th among the states; ask the maker how a pallet behaves frozen.

• Footprint: 48 x 40 in, one maker
• Grade: used and clean with a stated rating
• Quantity: a band, from a few pallet-loads to a truck
• ZIP: the Arizona receiving ZIP

Other states

• Idaho
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Louisiana
• Maine
• New Hampshire
• Ohio
• Pennsylvania
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Virginia

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