Used plastic pallets in New York

New York in numbers

A pallet moves wherever a warehouse does, and New York has 833 of them by the BLS establishment count, with 55,371 jobs between them and 66.5 per site on average.

• Onondaga County: 6,329 warehousing jobs, 11% of New York and 0.33% of the country, 1.1 times Monroe County.
• Monroe County: 5,986 warehousing jobs, 11% of New York and 0.31% of the country, 95% of the size of Onondaga County.
• Erie County: 3,237 warehousing jobs, 5.8% of New York and 0.17% of the country, 51% of the size of Onondaga County.

New York against the country

Read across: what New York has, what the whole country has, the slice New York takes, and where that puts it in the state ranking when a rank exists.

What the ratios say

Small counties in New York are hidden by BLS disclosure rules, so read the 55,371 state figure as the total and the county lines as a floor.

• The three largest warehousing counties hold 28% of New York's jobs in the line.
• At 66.5 jobs per establishment against 81.5 across the US, New York's warehouses run smaller than the national average by 18 percent.
• Food manufacturing employs 1.09 people for every warehousing job in New York; across the US the ratio is 0.93.
• New York holds 3.4% of the nation's food manufacturing jobs and 2.9% of its warehousing jobs, so food is the heavier of the two lines here.
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing adds 25,087 jobs, 7.1% of the US total, enough to make sanitisable pallets a real part of local demand.
• Motor vehicle assembly accounts for 452 jobs in New York, 0.16% of the US total, with another 8,145 in parts.
• Refrigerated space works out at 1,011 cubic feet for every warehousing job, against 2,098 nationally.
• Onondaga County's 6,329 warehousing jobs are more than the whole state total of 13 other states, the largest being New Mexico at 5,725.
• Nevada runs warehouses of nearly the same size, at 68.6 jobs per establishment against 66.5 here.
• For food manufacturing, Iowa is the closest match at 60,161 jobs, 155 below New York's 60,316.
• The smallest county the BLS shows for New York is Erie County with 3,237 jobs; the largest has 2.0 times as many.
• If warehousing jobs were split evenly across 50 states, each would hold 2.0% of the total; New York holds 2.91%, which is 1.46 times an even share.
• Indiana sits above New York with 12,135 more warehousing jobs, and North Carolina sits below with 820 fewer.

Where New York ranks

New York and the 9 states above it hold 58% of the country's 1,901,976 warehousing jobs between them. The median state has 23,211, so New York is 32,161 jobs above it; California, the largest, has 236,923, or 4 times as many.

Who buys pallets in New York

Measured against the national share of employment, food manufacturing is the most concentrated pallet-using line in New York, at 0.5 times the national figure. Food plants ask for clean, odour-free, washable decks. Food-contact papers come from the maker, not from the grade.

• Food manufacturing: 60,316 jobs in New York, 3.4% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 1.09 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Warehousing and storage: 55,371 jobs in New York, 2.9% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job in the state.

The ladder around New York

Sorting all 50 states by warehousing jobs puts New York 10th. The rows around it show how close the next states are.

New York has no metro page

None of the sixty logistics metros sits in New York, so this page serves the whole state. The reply to a request from New York says how a lot would reach you.

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.

What to put on a request from New York

USDA counted 56 million cubic feet of gross refrigerated warehouse space in New York on 1 October 2025, 22nd among the states; ask the maker how a pallet behaves frozen.

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

Other states

• Connecticut
• Delaware
• Idaho
• Indiana
• Maine
• Massachusetts
• Montana
• Nebraska
• North Dakota
• Texas
• Virginia
• Wyoming

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