Used plastic pallets in New Mexico

What the jobs data shows for New Mexico

The Bureau of Labor Statistics counts private employers in New Mexico at 5,725 warehousing and storage jobs across 66 establishments in 2025, about 86.7 jobs per establishment.

• a Ana County: 411 warehousing jobs, 7.2% of New Mexico and 0.02% of the country, 25.7 times Santa Fe County.
• Santa Fe County: 16 warehousing jobs, 0.28% of New Mexico and 0.00% of the country, 4% of the size of a Ana County.

New Mexico against the country

New Mexico'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 New Mexico are a floor and not the whole of its 5,725 jobs.

• The 2 largest warehousing counties hold 7.5% of New Mexico's jobs in the line.
• The average warehouse in New Mexico employs 86.7 people where the national average is 81.5, a gap of 6 percent above it.
• Food manufacturing employs 1.11 people for every warehousing job in New Mexico; across the US the ratio is 0.93.
• New Mexico holds 0.36% of the nation's food manufacturing jobs and 0.30% of its warehousing jobs, so food is the heavier of the two lines here.
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing adds 839 jobs, 0.24% of the US total.
• Wyoming runs warehouses of nearly the same size, at 85.8 jobs per establishment against 86.7 here.
• For food manufacturing, Hawaii is the closest match at 6,032 jobs, 342 below New Mexico's 6,374.
• The smallest county the BLS shows for New Mexico is Santa Fe County with 16 jobs; the largest has 25.7 times as many.
• If warehousing jobs were split evenly across 50 states, each would hold 2.0% of the total; New Mexico holds 0.30%, which is 0.15 times an even share.
• Nebraska sits above New Mexico with 2,521 more warehousing jobs, and Rhode Island sits below with 573 fewer.

Where New Mexico ranks

New Mexico and the 37 states above it hold 99% of the country's 1,901,976 warehousing jobs between them. The median state has 23,211, so New Mexico is 17,485 jobs below it; California, the largest, has 236,923, or 41 times as many.

The pallet-using lines in New Mexico

By location quotient New Mexico leans hardest on dairy product manufacturing (2.0x the national share). Dairy runs cold and wet, so ask about cold-room use and drainage in the deck.

• Dairy product manufacturing: 1,732 jobs in New Mexico, 1.0% of the 168,222 across the US, or 0.30 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Food manufacturing: 6,374 jobs in New Mexico, 0.36% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 1.11 for every warehousing job in the state.

The ladder around New Mexico

States are ranked by warehousing and storage jobs. New Mexico is 38th of 50; the table shows the two states above it and the two below.

New Mexico has no metro page

New Mexico 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.

Planning around the seasons

• Cold months bring brittle resin, so handle gently and avoid sharp drops.
• Warm months soften decks, so shorten stacks and keep loads in shade.
• Harvest, holiday and promotion peaks use pallets faster, so order earlier.
• Wet seasons add weight in the ribs, so allow a drying day before indoor use.
• Plan returns and exports for the weeks when dock space is free.

Photographs worth taking

• One wide shot of each stack with a tape or a person for scale.
• The four corners of a sample pallet, close enough to show gouges.
• The underside, including the runners and the bottom of each fork pocket.
• Any plate, label, moulded number or mark, shot square on and in raking light.
• Repairs and cracks, with a coin or a ruler beside them to show size.

What to put on a request from New Mexico

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

• Footprint: 48 x 40 in or 56 x 44 in
• Grade: like new
• Quantity: a band, from a few pallet-loads to a truck
• ZIP: the New Mexico receiving ZIP

Other states

• Alaska
• Georgia
• Hawaii
• Idaho
• Louisiana
• Maine
• Michigan
• New York
• Rhode Island
• Texas
• Vermont
• Virginia

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