Used plastic pallets in Utah

Where Utah's pallet work sits

Warehousing and storage in Utah employed 13,683 people at 290 sites in 2025, an average of 47.2 per site, by the BLS count of private employers.

• Salt Lake County: 6,623 warehousing jobs, 48% of Utah and 0.35% of the country, 4.0 times Washington County.
• Washington County: 1,676 warehousing jobs, 12% of Utah and 0.09% of the country, 25% of the size of Salt Lake County.
• Davis County: 1,373 warehousing jobs, 10% of Utah and 0.07% of the country, 21% of the size of Salt Lake County.

Utah against the country

Each line is Utah's private-sector figure beside the national total, with the share it makes up and, where the data allows, its rank among the fifty states.

What the ratios say

The BLS withholds counties where a figure would identify one employer, which means the 3 counties shown for Utah understate what the state holds.

• The three largest warehousing counties hold 71% of Utah's jobs in the line, and Salt Lake County alone holds 48%.
• Size of site: 47.2 jobs in the typical Utah warehouse, fewer than the 81.5 found across the country (42 percent fewer).
• Food manufacturing employs 1.71 people for every warehousing job in Utah; across the US the ratio is 0.93.
• Utah holds 1.3% of the nation's food manufacturing jobs and 0.72% of its warehousing jobs, so food is the heavier of the two lines here.
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing adds 7,842 jobs, 2.2% of the US total.
• Refrigerated space works out at 4,750 cubic feet for every warehousing job, against 2,098 nationally.
• The metro below accounts for 48% of the state's warehousing jobs, counting disclosed counties only.
• Salt Lake County's 6,623 warehousing jobs are more than the whole state total of 13 other states, the largest being New Mexico at 5,725.
• Louisiana runs warehouses of nearly the same size, at 47.0 jobs per establishment against 47.2 here.
• For food manufacturing, Mississippi is the closest match at 24,727 jobs, 1,304 above Utah's 23,423.
• The smallest county the BLS shows for Utah is Davis County with 1,373 jobs; the largest has 4.8 times as many.
• If warehousing jobs were split evenly across 50 states, each would hold 2.0% of the total; Utah holds 0.72%, which is 0.36 times an even share.
• Louisiana sits above Utah with 1,629 more warehousing jobs, and Delaware sits below with 1,188 fewer.

Where Utah ranks

Utah and the 34 states above it hold 97% of the country's 1,901,976 warehousing jobs between them. The median state has 23,211, so Utah is 9,527 jobs below it; California, the largest, has 236,923, or 17 times as many.

Industries that use pallets in Utah

The line that stands out in Utah is dairy product manufacturing, 2.4 times as concentrated as it is across the US. Dairy runs cold and wet, so ask about cold-room use and drainage in the deck.

• Dairy product manufacturing: 4,388 jobs in Utah, 2.6% of the 168,222 across the US, or 0.32 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing: 7,842 jobs in Utah, 2.2% of the 350,886 across the US, or 0.57 for every warehousing job in the state.

The ladder around Utah

At 35th of 50 states by warehousing jobs, Utah has these neighbours in the ranking, two above and two below.

Metros we list in Utah

One metro in Utah has 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 write down about a lot

• Footprint in both units, with the readings you took rather than the label.
• Number of stacks, pallets per stack and any odd stacks left over.
• Makers and model numbers seen on plates or moulded into the ribs.
• Count of repaired, mismatched or cracked pieces, and where each sits.
• Marks, colours and any smell, with a note on who confirmed each.

What to put on a request from Utah

USDA counted 65 million cubic feet of gross refrigerated warehouse space in Utah on 1 October 2025, 20th among the states; ask the maker how a pallet behaves frozen.

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

Other states

• Georgia
• Hawaii
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Nevada
• Oregon
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Vermont
• Washington

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