Used plastic pallets in Wyoming

What the jobs data shows for Wyoming

The Bureau of Labor Statistics counts private employers in Wyoming at 1,974 warehousing and storage jobs across 23 establishments in 2025, about 85.8 jobs per establishment.

• Laramie County: 1,747 warehousing jobs, 89% of Wyoming and 0.09% of the country, 41.6 times Albany County.
• Albany County: 42 warehousing jobs, 2.1% of Wyoming and 0.00% of the country, 2% of the size of Laramie County.

Wyoming against the country

Wyoming'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 Wyoming are a floor and not the whole of its 1,974 jobs.

• The 2 largest warehousing counties hold 91% of Wyoming's jobs in the line, and Laramie County alone holds 89%.
• The average warehouse in Wyoming employs 85.8 people where the national average is 81.5, a gap of 5 percent above it.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.46 people for every warehousing job in Wyoming; across the US the ratio is 0.93.
• Wyoming holds 0.05% of the nation's food manufacturing jobs and 0.10% of its warehousing jobs, so food is the lighter of the two lines here.
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing adds 65 jobs, 0.02% of the US total.
• Laramie County's 1,747 warehousing jobs are more than the whole state total of 5 other states, the largest being North Dakota at 1,438.
• California runs warehouses of nearly the same size, at 85.3 jobs per establishment against 85.8 here.
• For food manufacturing, Montana is the closest match at 2,492 jobs, 1,590 above Wyoming's 902.
• The smallest county the BLS shows for Wyoming is Albany County with 42 jobs; the largest has 41.6 times as many.
• If warehousing jobs were split evenly across 50 states, each would hold 2.0% of the total; Wyoming holds 0.10%, which is 0.05 times an even share.
• Idaho sits above Wyoming with 471 more warehousing jobs, and North Dakota sits below with 536 fewer.

Where Wyoming ranks

Wyoming is one of the 6 smallest states by warehousing jobs. The median state has 23,211, so Wyoming is 21,236 jobs below it; California, the largest, has 236,923, or 120 times as many.

The pallet-using lines in Wyoming

By location quotient Wyoming leans hardest on chemical manufacturing (1.3x the national share). Drums and bags drive the footprint here: four 55-gallon drums sit on a 48 x 48 without overhang, and 45 x 45 is the CP9 chemical standard.

• Chemical manufacturing: 1,811 jobs in Wyoming, 0.20% of the 892,426 across the US, or 0.92 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Warehousing and storage: 1,974 jobs in Wyoming, 0.10% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job in the state.

The ladder around Wyoming

States are ranked by warehousing and storage jobs. Wyoming is 45th of 50; the table shows the two states above it and the two below.

Wyoming has no metro page

Wyoming 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 Wyoming

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

• Ask for used and clean in 48 x 48 in or 45 x 45 in
• Write the Wyoming ZIP where the lot will land
• Say how many pallet-loads, or whether you need a truck

Other states

• Colorado
• Georgia
• Idaho
• Maine
• Massachusetts
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• North Dakota
• Oklahoma
• South Dakota
• Texas
• Vermont

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