Workforce/Wage Information

America’s Best Workforce!

Pella’s workforce is highly educated and productive. Pella has a public high school graduation rate of 93.5% percent. Student scores on the ACT and SAT college entrance exams rank among the best in the country at 23.5-24.1 in 2013.

Training incentives, our excellent educational institutions, and our workforce provide a profitable advantage for your company. Also available to you are screening, assessment and testing services, a company can select the right people for the new jobs and the training reimbursements allow the company to save valuable time to train these workers up front.

Iowa is a Right-To-Work State
Under Iowa law, an employee must not be required to join a union or pay dues or fees to any labor union, association or organization, as a condition of employment.

Unemployment Insurance
Iowa has one of the lowest new employer Unemployment Insurance rates in the nation. The 2014 standard new employer rate for all non-construction businesses for a three-year period is 1.0 percent on a $26,800 wage base.

In 2015, the average rate will fall from 1.6 percent to 1.2 percent.

Workers’ Compensation
Iowa’s comparative workers’ compensation costs continue to rank among the nation’s lowest-cost third of states.