Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Hawaii

Measured against the national total for each industry, Hawaii is strongest in grocery and related product wholesale, with 0.65% of the US jobs, and weakest in food manufacturing, with 0.34%. The state holds 0.07% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

No county in Hawaii is shown with disclosed warehousing data in our source, so this page gives the state total only.

Hawaii stands 140 jobs behind North Dakota and 241 ahead of Vermont. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Hawaii sits at 6 percent of that line.

• The average Hawaii warehousing site employs 23 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 28 percent the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 4.65 people for every warehousing job in Hawaii; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Our source shows no motor vehicle assembly or parts total for Hawaii, so auto docks are not a basis for this lane.
• California has the most warehousing jobs of any state, 236,923, and Hawaii has 0.5% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Hawaii is 44th of fifty, and by average site size it is 47th, so it has more sites than its job count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Hawaii ranks 42nd with 6,032 jobs, 0.3% of the US total of 1,775,008.

Our sources show no figure for Hawaii in pharmaceutical manufacturing, motor vehicle assembly, motor vehicle parts, cold storage capacity, and county warehousing data. 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.

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

Hawaii 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, Hawaii would need to add 21,913; to reach its 306 median sites it would need to add 249.
• Its 0.07% of US warehousing jobs compares with 0.34% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 4.98: food plants weigh more here than warehouses do.
• If each of the 57 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 684 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Hawaii fall in 967 to 968, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Grocery and related product wholesale is the largest listed industry on this page at 5,408 jobs, 4.17 for every warehousing job and 95 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 6,032 food manufacturing jobs by the 57 warehousing sites gives 105.8; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 0.07% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 1,429 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 57 Hawaii sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 4,644 warehousing jobs, which is 3,346 more than the 1,298 it has. Its sites are smaller than the national average.

• Against California, Hawaii has 235,625 fewer warehousing jobs, 2,719 fewer sites and 160,628 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical California site holds 85.3 jobs and the typical Hawaii site 22.8; food jobs per warehousing job run 4.65 here and 0.70 there.
• Against Washington, Hawaii has 35,393 fewer warehousing jobs, 416 fewer sites and 33,655 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Washington site holds 77.6 jobs and the typical Hawaii site 22.8; food jobs per warehousing job run 4.65 here and 1.08 there.
• Against Oregon, Hawaii has 15,452 fewer warehousing jobs, 210 fewer sites and 22,171 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Oregon site holds 62.7 jobs and the typical Hawaii site 22.8; food jobs per warehousing job run 4.65 here and 1.68 there.
• Against Nevada, Hawaii has 40,815 fewer warehousing jobs, 557 fewer sites and 2,392 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Nevada site holds 68.6 jobs and the typical Hawaii site 22.8; food jobs per warehousing job run 4.65 here and 0.20 there.
• Against Arizona, Hawaii has 50,756 fewer warehousing jobs, 288 fewer sites and 9,912 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Arizona site holds 150.9 jobs and the typical Hawaii site 22.8; food jobs per warehousing job run 4.65 here and 0.31 there.

• Grocery and related product wholesale employs 5,408 in Hawaii, 0.65% of the 829,364 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 4.17 of these jobs.
• Food manufacturing employs 6,032 in Hawaii, 0.34% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 4.65 of these jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Hawaii begin with 967 to 968.
• 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.
• Receiving hours and whether delivery needs an appointment.