Used plastic pallets in Vermont

What the jobs data shows for Vermont

The Bureau of Labor Statistics counts private employers in Vermont at 1,057 warehousing and storage jobs across 42 establishments in 2025, about 25.2 jobs per establishment.

• Franklin County: 342 warehousing jobs, 32% of Vermont and 0.02% of the country, 1.5 times Chittenden County.
• Chittenden County: 227 warehousing jobs, 21% of Vermont and 0.01% of the country, 66% of the size of Franklin County.
• Windham County: 21 warehousing jobs, 2.0% of Vermont and 0.00% of the country, 6% of the size of Franklin County.

Vermont against the country

Vermont'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 Vermont are a floor and not the whole of its 1,057 jobs.

• The three largest warehousing counties hold 56% of Vermont's jobs in the line.
• The average warehouse in Vermont employs 25.2 people where the national average is 81.5, a gap of 69 percent below it.
• Food manufacturing employs 5.06 people for every warehousing job in Vermont; across the US the ratio is 0.93.
• Vermont holds 0.30% of the nation's food manufacturing jobs and 0.06% of its warehousing jobs, so food is the heavier of the two lines here.
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing adds 480 jobs, 0.14% of the US total.
• Refrigerated space works out at 4,730 cubic feet for every warehousing job, against 2,098 nationally.
• North Dakota runs warehouses of nearly the same size, at 23.6 jobs per establishment against 25.2 here.
• For food manufacturing, North Dakota is the closest match at 5,564 jobs, 216 above Vermont's 5,348.
• The smallest county the BLS shows for Vermont is Windham County with 21 jobs; the largest has 16.3 times as many.
• If warehousing jobs were split evenly across 50 states, each would hold 2.0% of the total; Vermont holds 0.06%, which is 0.03 times an even share.
• Hawaii sits above Vermont with 241 more warehousing jobs, and Alaska sits below with 470 fewer.

Where Vermont ranks

Vermont is one of the 3 smallest states by warehousing jobs. The median state has 23,211, so Vermont is 22,153 jobs below it; California, the largest, has 236,923, or 224 times as many.

The pallet-using lines in Vermont

By location quotient Vermont leans hardest on dairy product manufacturing (6.7x the national share). Dairy runs cold and wet, so ask about cold-room use and drainage in the deck.

• Dairy product manufacturing: 2,148 jobs in Vermont, 1.3% of the 168,222 across the US, or 2.03 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Food manufacturing: 5,348 jobs in Vermont, 0.30% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 5.06 for every warehousing job in the state.

The ladder around Vermont

States are ranked by warehousing and storage jobs. Vermont is 48th of 50; the table shows the two states above it and the two below.

Vermont has no metro page

Vermont 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.

Labelling stacks

• Put a card on each stack with footprint, grade and the date it was sorted.
• Use one colour of tape for repaired pallets and another for held ones.
• Keep labels at fork-truck eye level, not on the lowest pallet.
• Update the card when a pallet is removed, so the count stays true.
• Retire old cards instead of writing over them.

Safe handling at the stack

• Lift with the tines fully under the load and tilt back slightly before travelling.
• Never climb a stack, and never stand beside one while it is being moved.
• Take a damaged pallet out of service at once and tag it, so nobody reloads it.
• Keep stack heights even and edges square, since a leaning stack feeds on itself.
• Match tine length to the pallet, because short tines can crack the underside of a deck.

Asking for a lot in Vermont

USDA counted 5 million cubic feet of gross refrigerated warehouse space in Vermont on 1 October 2025, 35th 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 Vermont ZIP where the lot will land
• Say how many pallet-loads, or whether you need a truck

Other states

• Arkansas
• Idaho
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Maine
• Michigan
• Missouri
• Montana
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Washington
• Wyoming

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