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Mississippi, Truck driverMoving from Alaska to Mississippi as a CDL holder
What a CDL holder licensed in Alaska has to do to work in Mississippi, what the move does to your pay, and who in Mississippi is hiring from out of state.
Transfers at the DMV. A commercial driver's licence transfers like any licence: within 30 days of becoming a Mississippi resident you surrender the Alaska CDL at a Mississippi driver licence office, pass the vision test, pay the fee, and your endorsements carry over. A hazmat endorsement needs a fresh TSA threat assessment in Mississippi. Your driving record follows you through the federal CDLIS system.
What the move does to your paycheck
On a $60,000 salary Mississippi takes roughly $2,640 a year more than Alaska does, because you are leaving a state with no income tax on wages.
| Salary | Alaska state tax | Mississippi state tax | Difference a year |
|---|---|---|---|
| $40,000 | $0 | $1,760 | -$1,760 |
| $60,000 | $0 | $2,640 | -$2,640 |
| $90,000 | $0 | $3,960 | -$3,960 |
Rough figures for a single filer: exact in the flat-rate and no-tax states, approximated at 70% of the top bracket in the progressive ones. Property and sales tax are not in it.
CNA: Alaska to Mississippi
Transfers by reciprocity. Your Alaska certificate stays on the Alaska Board of Nursing (Certified Nurse Aide program); to work in Mississippi you apply to the Mississippi State Department of Health, Nurse Aide Registry for reciprocity. It accepts an active certificate in good standing from another state; there is no retest if your record is clean. Most registries list you within two to six weeks.
RN and LPN: Alaska to Mississippi
Endorsement, six to twelve weeks. Alaska is not in the compact, so your Alaska licence is single-state. Apply to the Mississippi board for licensure by endorsement (Nursys verification, fingerprints, the board's fee); six to twelve weeks is normal, so start before you give notice. Because Mississippi is a compact state, ask for the new licence to be issued as a multistate licence: from then on it works in every compact state.
Electrician: Alaska to Mississippi
Reciprocity likely. Mississippi licenses electricians at state level through the Mississippi State Board of Contractors, and The state licenses electrical contractors; journeymen are licensed by cities where at all. Contractor reciprocity with a handful of states. Your Alaska licence comes from the Alaska Department of Labor, Mechanical Inspection, a state body, which is what a reciprocity application needs: ask it for a verification letter before you move.
Does Mississippi pay you to come?
No statewide program in Mississippi pays people to move in. Towns sometimes list an offer through MakeMyMove, and employers in short-staffed trades pay relocation themselves; ask for it in writing before you accept.
Going the other way? Alaska has Permanent Fund Dividend. See moving from Mississippi to Alaska.
Openings filed in Mississippi
53 open positions filed with the Department of Labor by Mississippi employers who could not fill them locally.
- Farm WorkerJack Weaver Farms LLC · Newton · $13.93/hr
- Farm WorkerPrewitt Farms · Boyle · $9.95/hr
- Farm WorkerTackett Fish Farms · Schlater · $12/hr
- Nursery Worker (45-2092.00)Murray's Nursery LLC · Moss Point · $15.04/hr
- Ag Equipment OperatorSimpson's Sod Company, Inc. · Poplarville · $15.04/hr
- Farm WorkerEvans Planting Co. · Anguilla · $15.04/hr
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