Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Wyoming

Measured against the national total for each industry, Wyoming is strongest in chemical manufacturing, with 0.20% of the US jobs, and weakest in warehousing and storage, with 0.10%. The state holds 0.1% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Laramie holds 88.5% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 2 counties shown together hold 90.6%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

Wyoming stands 471 jobs behind Idaho and 536 ahead of North Dakota. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Wyoming sits at 9 percent of that line.

• The average Wyoming warehousing site employs 86 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 1.1 times the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.46 people for every warehousing job in Wyoming; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 23 jobs in Wyoming, 0.0% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 65 jobs, 0.02% of the national 350,886, which makes it 46th of the 46 states that report.
• California has the most warehousing jobs of any state, 236,923, and Wyoming has 0.8% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Wyoming is 50th of fifty, and by average site size it is 15th, so its sites are larger than its site count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Wyoming ranks 50th with 902 jobs, 0.1% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 2 counties shown hold 1,789 of the state's 1,974 warehousing jobs, so 185 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

Our sources show no figure for Wyoming in motor vehicle assembly 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.

Loads for Wyoming often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Wyoming's 1,974, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Utah.

The table sets Wyoming beside each state that borders it on the same five measures: establishments, jobs per site, food manufacturing jobs for each warehousing job, share of the US warehousing total, and sites for every thousand warehousing jobs. All of it is arithmetic on the BLS counts named in the sources.

• To reach the median state's 23,211 warehousing jobs, Wyoming would need to add 21,237; to reach its 306 median sites it would need to add 283.
• Its 0.1% of US warehousing jobs compares with 0.05% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 0.49: warehouses weigh more here than food plants do.
• If each of the 23 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 276 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Wyoming fall in 820 to 831, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Chemical manufacturing is the largest listed industry on this page at 1,811 jobs, 0.92 for every warehousing job and 79 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 902 food manufacturing jobs by the 23 warehousing sites gives 39.2; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 0.1% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 1,000 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 23 Wyoming sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 1,874 warehousing jobs, which is 100 fewer than the 1,974 it has. Its sites are larger than the national average.

• Colorado has 22,567 more warehousing jobs, 281 more sites and 25,667 more food manufacturing jobs than Wyoming, so a Colorado dock averages 80.7 jobs per site against 85.8 here, and 1.08 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.46.
• Idaho has 471 more warehousing jobs, 123 more sites and 20,461 more food manufacturing jobs than Wyoming, so a Idaho dock averages 16.7 jobs per site against 85.8 here, and 8.74 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.46.
• Montana has 1,546 fewer warehousing jobs, 29 more sites and 1,590 more food manufacturing jobs than Wyoming, so a Montana dock averages 8.2 jobs per site against 85.8 here, and 5.82 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.46.
• Nebraska has 6,272 more warehousing jobs, 133 more sites and 41,037 more food manufacturing jobs than Wyoming, so a Nebraska dock averages 52.9 jobs per site against 85.8 here, and 5.09 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.46.
• South Dakota has 1,295 more warehousing jobs, 19 more sites and 9,964 more food manufacturing jobs than Wyoming, so a South Dakota dock averages 77.8 jobs per site against 85.8 here, and 3.32 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.46.
• Utah has 11,709 more warehousing jobs, 267 more sites and 22,521 more food manufacturing jobs than Wyoming, so a Utah dock averages 47.2 jobs per site against 85.8 here, and 1.71 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.46.

• Chemical manufacturing employs 1,811 in Wyoming, 0.20% of the 892,426 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.92 of these jobs.
• Warehousing and storage employs 1,974 in Wyoming, 0.10% of the 1,901,976 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.00 of these jobs.

• Laramie is 1st of the counties shown with 1,747 warehousing jobs, which is 20.4 times the average Wyoming site headcount of 86 and 0.09% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Albany is 2nd of the counties shown with 42 warehousing jobs, which is 0.5 times the average Wyoming site headcount of 86 and 0.00% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Wyoming begin with 820 to 831.
• Whether the dock has a loading dock or needs a liftgate trailer.
• 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.