Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Alaska

Measured against the national total for each industry, Alaska is strongest in food manufacturing, with 0.50% of the US jobs, and weakest in grocery and related product wholesale, with 0.21%. The state holds 0.03% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Anchorage Municipality holds 89.4% of the state's warehousing jobs. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

Alaska stands 470 jobs behind Vermont and 159 ahead of Montana. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Alaska sits at 3 percent of that line.

• The average Alaska warehousing site employs 20 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 24 percent the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 15.13 people for every warehousing job in Alaska; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Our source shows no motor vehicle assembly or parts total for Alaska, so auto docks are not a basis for this lane.
• California has the most warehousing jobs of any state, 236,923, and Alaska has 0.2% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Alaska is 49th of fifty, and by average site size it is 48th, so its sites are larger than its site count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Alaska ranks 39th with 8,882 jobs, 0.5% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The one county shown holds 525 of the state's 587 warehousing jobs, so 62 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

Our sources show no figure for Alaska in pharmaceutical manufacturing, motor vehicle assembly, motor vehicle parts, and cold storage capacity. Those gaps are in the data, which hides or omits small cells to protect privacy; they are not a claim that the industry is absent, and a missing row above means the same.

Alaska shares no land border with another state, so a load arrives by water, by air or by a long haul through Canada. We do not hold freight-rate data for Alaska; the carrier quote on your delivered price decides how a load gets there.

Alaska has no land neighbour to compare, so this table sets it beside five mainland states nearest to it. Every column is arithmetic on the BLS counts named in the sources: jobs per site, food manufacturing jobs for each warehousing job, share of the US total, and sites for every thousand warehousing jobs.

• To reach the median state's 23,211 warehousing jobs, Alaska would need to add 22,624; to reach its 306 median sites it would need to add 276.
• Its 0.03% of US warehousing jobs compares with 0.50% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 16.21: food plants weigh more here than warehouses do.
• If each of the 30 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 360 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Alaska fall in 995 to 999, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Food manufacturing is the largest listed industry on this page at 8,882 jobs, 15.13 for every warehousing job and 296 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 8,882 food manufacturing jobs by the 30 warehousing sites gives 296.1; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 0.03% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 3,333 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 30 Alaska sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 2,444 warehousing jobs, which is 1,857 more than the 587 it has. Its sites are smaller than the national average.

• Against Washington, Alaska has 36,104 fewer warehousing jobs, 443 fewer sites and 30,805 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Washington site holds 77.6 jobs and the typical Alaska site 19.6; food jobs per warehousing job run 15.13 here and 1.08 there.
• Against Oregon, Alaska has 16,163 fewer warehousing jobs, 237 fewer sites and 19,321 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Oregon site holds 62.7 jobs and the typical Alaska site 19.6; food jobs per warehousing job run 15.13 here and 1.68 there.
• Against Montana, Alaska has 159 more warehousing jobs, 22 fewer sites and 6,390 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Montana site holds 8.2 jobs and the typical Alaska site 19.6; food jobs per warehousing job run 15.13 here and 5.82 there.
• Against Idaho, Alaska has 1,858 fewer warehousing jobs, 116 fewer sites and 12,481 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Idaho site holds 16.7 jobs and the typical Alaska site 19.6; food jobs per warehousing job run 15.13 here and 8.74 there.
• Against North Dakota, Alaska has 851 fewer warehousing jobs, 31 fewer sites and 3,318 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical North Dakota site holds 23.6 jobs and the typical Alaska site 19.6; food jobs per warehousing job run 15.13 here and 3.87 there.

• Food manufacturing employs 8,882 in Alaska, 0.50% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 15.13 of these jobs.
• Grocery and related product wholesale employs 1,717 in Alaska, 0.21% of the 829,364 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 2.93 of these jobs.

• Anchorage Municipality is 1st of the counties shown with 525 warehousing jobs, which is 26.8 times the average Alaska site headcount of 20 and 0.03% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Alaska begin with 995 to 999.
• Receiving hours and whether delivery needs an appointment.
• The footprint and the number of pallets, or the number of trailers.
• The three ratings the load needs, or a description of the load.
• Resin and colourant papers wanted, if the pallets touch food or pharma product.
• The month you want them, and whether a standing supply follows.
• Whether the dock has a loading dock or needs a liftgate trailer.