Used plastic pallets in Arkansas

What the jobs data shows for Arkansas

The Bureau of Labor Statistics counts private employers in Arkansas at 15,624 warehousing and storage jobs across 218 establishments in 2025, about 71.7 jobs per establishment.

• Pulaski County: 7,477 warehousing jobs, 48% of Arkansas and 0.39% of the country, 2.8 times Benton County.
• Benton County: 2,670 warehousing jobs, 17% of Arkansas and 0.14% of the country, 36% of the size of Pulaski County.
• Crittenden County: 505 warehousing jobs, 3.2% of Arkansas and 0.03% of the country, 7% of the size of Pulaski County.

Arkansas against the country

Arkansas'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 Arkansas are a floor and not the whole of its 15,624 jobs.

• The three largest warehousing counties hold 68% of Arkansas's jobs in the line, and Pulaski County alone holds 48%.
• The average warehouse in Arkansas employs 71.7 people where the national average is 81.5, a gap of 12 percent below it.
• Food manufacturing employs 3.32 people for every warehousing job in Arkansas; across the US the ratio is 0.93.
• Arkansas holds 2.9% of the nation's food manufacturing jobs and 0.82% of its warehousing jobs, so food is the heavier of the two lines here.
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing adds 464 jobs, 0.13% of the US total.
• Refrigerated space works out at 5,952 cubic feet for every warehousing job, against 2,098 nationally.
• The metro below accounts for 20% of the state's warehousing jobs, counting disclosed counties only.
• Pulaski County's 7,477 warehousing jobs are more than the whole state total of 13 other states, the largest being New Mexico at 5,725.
• Alabama runs warehouses of nearly the same size, at 71.5 jobs per establishment against 71.7 here.
• For food manufacturing, Minnesota is the closest match at 47,829 jobs, 3,970 below Arkansas's 51,799.
• The smallest county the BLS shows for Arkansas is Crittenden County with 505 jobs; the largest has 14.8 times as many.
• If warehousing jobs were split evenly across 50 states, each would hold 2.0% of the total; Arkansas holds 0.82%, which is 0.41 times an even share.
• Oregon sits above Arkansas with 1,126 more warehousing jobs, and Louisiana sits below with 312 fewer.

Where Arkansas ranks

Arkansas and the 32 states above it hold 96% of the country's 1,901,976 warehousing jobs between them. The median state has 23,211, so Arkansas is 7,586 jobs below it; California, the largest, has 236,923, or 15 times as many.

The pallet-using lines in Arkansas

By location quotient Arkansas leans hardest on meat and poultry processing (7.5x the national share). Wash-down plants need clean, crack-free decks. Ask whether any pallet has been repaired, since a weld bead holds residue.

• Meat and poultry processing: 34,773 jobs in Arkansas, 6.2% of the 556,647 across the US, or 2.23 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Food manufacturing: 51,799 jobs in Arkansas, 2.9% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 3.32 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Refrigerated warehousing: 1,941 jobs in Arkansas, 2.7% of the 73,136 across the US, or 0.12 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Fruit and vegetable preserving: 4,153 jobs in Arkansas, 2.4% of the 173,844 across the US, or 0.27 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Plastics product manufacturing: 6,804 jobs in Arkansas, 1.2% of the 575,006 across the US, or 0.44 for every warehousing job in the state.

The ladder around Arkansas

States are ranked by warehousing and storage jobs. Arkansas is 33rd of 50; the table shows the two states above it and the two below.

Metros we list in Arkansas

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

Paperwork to keep

• The written lot description and the date it was sent.
• Your own count, signed and dated by whoever received the load.
• Photographs of stacks, plates and any marks, stored with the order number.
• The maker's papers for resin, colour or rating, where the job needs them.
• A line naming who agreed to which exceptions, so a later dispute has a record.

What to put on a request from Arkansas

USDA counted 93 million cubic feet of gross refrigerated warehouse space in Arkansas on 1 October 2025, 14th among the states; ask the maker how a pallet behaves frozen.

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

Other states

• Colorado
• Georgia
• Idaho
• Maine
• Missouri
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• Oklahoma
• South Carolina
• Texas
• Vermont
• Washington

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