Palo, IA jobs, layoffs and employers

9 open professional jobs in Palo. Palo is in Linn County.

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Jobs in Palo

Nuclear Reactor Engineer PrincipalFlorida Power & Light
Nuclear Site Principal Engineer - I&C/ElectricalFlorida Power & Light
Nuclear Senior Assurance AnalystFlorida Power & Light
Nuclear Engineering Manager - Electrical / I&CNextera Energy
Nuclear Electrical Engineer - SeniorNextera Energy
Nuclear Engineer II - Civil / StructuralNextera Energy
Nuclear Engineer I - Civil/StructuralNextera Energy
Nuclear Engineer Associate - License Renewal ProgramsNextera Energy
Nuclear Employee Concerns Program CoordinatorNextera Energy

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Employers hiring most in Palo

Nextera Energy4 open roles
Florida Power & Light3 open roles
Nextera Energy2 open roles

Palo layoffs

No layoff notices naming Palo in the last 12 months are on file. The WARN Act covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.

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Linn County outlook: Steady

Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.

Private-sector jobs down 1.5% from 2022 to 2025
Population up 0.7% from 2020 to 2025
Unemployment 3.5%, unchanged from a year ago
Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+1,712 jobs), private education (+707 jobs)
Sectors losing the most jobs: transportation & warehousing (−2,885 jobs), finance & insurance (−766 jobs)

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Linn County economy

3.5%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.5% the month before
119,865
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
229,463
people in Linn County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$76,421
median household income
Source: Census ACS
41%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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