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It shares a land border with Connecticut and Massachusetts.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"Warehousing in numbers",[17,41],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":40},"table",[20,21,22],"Measure","Rhode Island","How it is worked out",[24,28,32,36],[25,26,27],"Private warehousing and storage jobs","5,152","BLS QCEW, NAICS 493, 2025",[29,30,31],"Share of US jobs in the trade","0.27 percent","5,152 against about 1,901,976 nationwide",[33,34,35],"Establishments","40","BLS QCEW",[37,38,39],"Jobs per establishment","129","5,152 ÷ 40, rounded","",{"t":10,"text":42},"Rhode Island reports no refrigerated warehouse capacity separately in the USDA table we used, so the cold question depends on the individual customer.",{"h2":44,"blocks":45},"Reading the numbers",[46],{"t":47,"items":48},"ul",[49,50,51,52,53],"Warehousing and storage employs 5,152 people in Rhode Island, 1.00 for every warehousing job.","Food manufacturing employs 3,769 people in Rhode Island, 0.73 for every warehousing job.","Rhode Island holds 0.27 percent of US warehousing jobs, about one in every 370, spread over 40 establishments averaging 129 jobs each.","Connecticut has 25,127 warehousing jobs, 4.88 times the 5,152 in Rhode Island.","Massachusetts has 20,695 warehousing jobs, 4.02 times the 5,152 in Rhode Island.",{"h2":55,"blocks":56},"Who ships pallets here",[57,71,73],{"t":18,"head":58,"rows":62,"caption":70},[59,60,61],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[63,66],[64,26,65],"Warehousing and storage","1.00",[67,68,69],"Food manufacturing","3,769","0.73","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":72},"In Rhode Island, warehousing and storage employs 5,152. Most of the demand is for general pallets in the common footprint, with the choice split between rack service and block stacking. It tends to lean on rackable where the pallet lives on beams, stackable for block stacking, nestable for the empties that go back, usually in 48 x 40 in, and to ask about the racking load, and the beam span it was rated on.",{"t":10,"text":74},"Warehousing and storage is the trade where Rhode Island is most concentrated, at 0.8 times the national share of employment. A buyer in that trade will tend to ask the questions in the last column first.",{"h2":76,"blocks":77},"The empty return",[78,80],{"t":10,"text":79},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 40 warehouse establishments in Rhode Island sent back 1,200 empty pallets in a week, that would be 48,000 pallets. 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