Used plastic pallets in Montana

What the jobs data shows for Montana

The Bureau of Labor Statistics counts private employers in Montana at 428 warehousing and storage jobs across 52 establishments in 2025, about 8.2 jobs per establishment.

• Yellowstone County: 122 warehousing jobs, 29% of Montana and 0.01% of the country, 2.5 times Gallatin County.
• Gallatin County: 48 warehousing jobs, 11% of Montana and 0.00% of the country, 39% of the size of Yellowstone County.
• Toole County: 45 warehousing jobs, 11% of Montana and 0.00% of the country, 37% of the size of Yellowstone County.

Montana against the country

Montana'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 Montana are a floor and not the whole of its 428 jobs.

• The three largest warehousing counties hold 50% of Montana's jobs in the line.
• The average warehouse in Montana employs 8.2 people where the national average is 81.5, a gap of 90 percent below it.
• Food manufacturing employs 5.82 people for every warehousing job in Montana; across the US the ratio is 0.93.
• Montana holds 0.14% of the nation's food manufacturing jobs and 0.02% of its warehousing jobs, so food is the heavier of the two lines here.
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing adds 631 jobs, 0.18% of the US total.
• Idaho runs warehouses of nearly the same size, at 16.7 jobs per establishment against 8.2 here.
• For food manufacturing, New Hampshire is the closest match at 2,774 jobs, 282 above Montana's 2,492.
• The smallest county the BLS shows for Montana is Toole County with 45 jobs; the largest has 2.7 times as many.
• If warehousing jobs were split evenly across 50 states, each would hold 2.0% of the total; Montana holds 0.02%, which is 0.01 times an even share.
• Alaska sits above Montana with 159 more warehousing jobs.

Where Montana ranks

Montana is one of the 1 smallest states by warehousing jobs. The median state has 23,211, so Montana is 22,782 jobs below it; California, the largest, has 236,923, or 554 times as many.

The pallet-using lines in Montana

By location quotient Montana leans hardest on food manufacturing (0.4x 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: 2,492 jobs in Montana, 0.14% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 5.82 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Grocery and related product wholesale: 2,459 jobs in Montana, 0.30% of the 829,364 across the US, or 5.75 for every warehousing job in the state.

The ladder around Montana

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

Montana has no metro page

Montana 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.

Training the dock crew

• Show new staff three pallets: one acceptable, one marginal, one rejected.
• Agree on words for faults, such as crack, gouge, bow and dish, and use them.
• Tell people to stop and ask when a pallet carries any mark they do not recognise.
• Remind drivers to enter pockets squarely, since angled entry splits the pocket wall.
• Walk the dock together once a month and compare notes.

Yard storage and weather

• Rain does little harm to plastic, but standing water in the ribs adds weight and breeds odours.
• Freezing weather makes some resins brittle, so avoid dropping or hard-forking cold pallets.
• Hot sun softens decks under load, which is how a stack ends up bowed.
• Wind can topple tall unstrapped stacks, so strap them or keep them short.
• Mud and grit on runners wear floors and conveyors, so brush them off before indoor use.

What to put on a request from Montana

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

• Ask for like new or used and clean in 48 x 40 in or 56 x 44 in
• Write the Montana ZIP where the lot will land
• Say how many pallet-loads, or whether you need a truck

Other states

• Alabama
• Arizona
• Florida
• Minnesota
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• New York
• North Dakota
• Rhode Island
• South Dakota
• Virginia
• Washington

Keep reading