Used plastic pallets in Connecticut

What the jobs data shows for Connecticut

The Bureau of Labor Statistics counts private employers in Connecticut at 25,127 warehousing and storage jobs across 193 establishments in 2025, about 130.2 jobs per establishment.

Connecticut against the country

Connecticut'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 Connecticut are a floor and not the whole of its 25,127 jobs.

• The average warehouse in Connecticut employs 130.2 people where the national average is 81.5, a gap of 60 percent above it.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.38 people for every warehousing job in Connecticut; across the US the ratio is 0.93.
• Connecticut holds 0.54% of the nation's food manufacturing jobs and 1.3% of its warehousing jobs, so food is the lighter of the two lines here.
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing adds 2,715 jobs, 0.77% of the US total.
• Rhode Island runs warehouses of nearly the same size, at 128.8 jobs per establishment against 130.2 here.
• For food manufacturing, Alaska is the closest match at 8,882 jobs, 789 below Connecticut's 9,671.
• If warehousing jobs were split evenly across 50 states, each would hold 2.0% of the total; Connecticut holds 1.32%, which is 0.66 times an even share.
• Mississippi sits above Connecticut with 327 more warehousing jobs, and Colorado sits below with 586 fewer.

Where Connecticut ranks

Connecticut and the 23 states above it hold 86% of the country's 1,901,976 warehousing jobs between them. The median state has 23,211, so Connecticut is 1,917 jobs above it; California, the largest, has 236,923, or 9 times as many.

The pallet-using lines in Connecticut

By location quotient Connecticut leans hardest on warehousing and storage (1.2x the national share). Warehouses with automated storage need a consistent size for conveyors and a rack rating they can read.

• Warehousing and storage: 25,127 jobs in Connecticut, 1.3% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Food manufacturing: 9,671 jobs in Connecticut, 0.54% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 0.38 for every warehousing job in the state.

The ladder around Connecticut

States are ranked by warehousing and storage jobs. Connecticut is 24th of 50; the table shows the two states above it and the two below.

Connecticut has no metro page

Connecticut 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 Connecticut

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

• Ask for used and clean with a stated rating in 48 x 40 in, one maker
• Write the Connecticut ZIP where the lot will land
• Say how many pallet-loads, or whether you need a truck

Other states

• Delaware
• Louisiana
• Massachusetts
• Nebraska
• New Hampshire
• New York
• North Dakota
• South Carolina
• South Dakota
• Tennessee
• Virginia
• Washington

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