Used plastic pallets in Georgia

What the jobs data shows for Georgia

The Bureau of Labor Statistics counts private employers in Georgia at 84,730 warehousing and storage jobs across 1,150 establishments in 2025, about 73.7 jobs per establishment.

• Fulton County: 18,317 warehousing jobs, 22% of Georgia and 0.96% of the country, 2.3 times Henry County.
• Henry County: 7,904 warehousing jobs, 9.3% of Georgia and 0.42% of the country, 43% of the size of Fulton County.
• Cobb County: 6,201 warehousing jobs, 7.3% of Georgia and 0.33% of the country, 34% of the size of Fulton County.

Georgia against the country

Georgia'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 Georgia are a floor and not the whole of its 84,730 jobs.

• The three largest warehousing counties hold 38% of Georgia's jobs in the line.
• The average warehouse in Georgia employs 73.7 people where the national average is 81.5, a gap of 10 percent below it.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.88 people for every warehousing job in Georgia; across the US the ratio is 0.93.
• Georgia holds 4.2% of the nation's food manufacturing jobs and 4.5% of its warehousing jobs, so food is the lighter of the two lines here.
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing adds 3,555 jobs, 1.0% of the US total.
• Motor vehicle assembly accounts for 4,397 jobs in Georgia, 1.5% of the US total, with another 20,440 in parts.
• Refrigerated space works out at 3,588 cubic feet for every warehousing job, against 2,098 nationally.
• The 3 metros below account for 66% of the state's warehousing jobs, counting disclosed counties only.
• Fulton County's 18,317 warehousing jobs are more than the whole state total of 20 other states, the largest being Minnesota at 17,921.
• Kansas runs warehouses of nearly the same size, at 72.2 jobs per establishment against 73.7 here.
• For food manufacturing, Wisconsin is the closest match at 81,993 jobs, 7,828 above Georgia's 74,165.
• The smallest county the BLS shows for Georgia is Cobb County with 6,201 jobs; the largest has 3.0 times as many.
• If warehousing jobs were split evenly across 50 states, each would hold 2.0% of the total; Georgia holds 4.45%, which is 2.23 times an even share.
• Ohio sits above Georgia with 13,624 more warehousing jobs, and Illinois sits below with 4,659 fewer.

Where Georgia ranks

Georgia and the 5 states above it hold 43% of the country's 1,901,976 warehousing jobs between them. The median state has 23,211, so Georgia is 61,520 jobs above it; California, the largest, has 236,923, or 3 times as many.

The pallet-using lines in Georgia

By location quotient Georgia leans hardest on meat and poultry processing (2.4x 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: 42,030 jobs in Georgia, 7.6% of the 556,647 across the US, or 0.50 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Refrigerated warehousing: 4,453 jobs in Georgia, 6.1% of the 73,136 across the US, or 0.05 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Warehousing and storage: 84,730 jobs in Georgia, 4.5% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Food manufacturing: 74,165 jobs in Georgia, 4.2% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 0.88 for every warehousing job in the state.

The ladder around Georgia

States are ranked by warehousing and storage jobs. Georgia is 6th of 50; the table shows the two states above it and the two below.

Metros we list in Georgia

3 metros in Georgia have 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 Georgia

USDA counted 304 million cubic feet of gross refrigerated warehouse space in Georgia on 1 October 2025, 2nd among the states; ask the maker how a pallet behaves frozen.

• Ask for like new or used and clean in 48 x 40 in
• Write the Georgia ZIP where the lot will land
• Say how many pallet-loads, or whether you need a truck

Other states

• Arkansas
• Colorado
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Michigan
• Missouri
• Montana
• New Jersey
• Rhode Island
• Washington
• Wisconsin
• Wyoming

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