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Moving from California to Nebraska for work

What moves with you from California to Nebraska: your licence, your take-home pay, and the programs that pay people to come. Every line below is computed from the two states' rules.

What the move does to your paycheck

On a $60,000 salary Nebraska leaves you roughly $3,402 a year more than California does, because Nebraska's rate is lower.

SalaryCalifornia state taxNebraska state taxDifference a year
$40,000$3,724$1,456+$2,268
$60,000$5,586$2,184+$3,402
$90,000$8,379$3,276+$5,103

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. In California: plus a 1.1% payroll tax for disability insurance. Property and sales tax are not in it.

CNA: California to Nebraska

Transfers by reciprocity. Your California certificate stays on the California Department of Public Health, Aide and Technician Certification Section; to work in Nebraska you apply to the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, 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: California to Nebraska

Endorsement, six to twelve weeks. California is not in the compact, so your California licence is single-state. Apply to the Nebraska 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 Nebraska 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: California to Nebraska

Reciprocity likely. Nebraska licenses electricians at state level through the Nebraska State Electrical Division, and reciprocity with a list of states for journeymen who passed a comparable exam. Your California licence comes from the Division of Industrial Relations (certification) and Contractors State License Board (C-10), a state body, which is what a reciprocity application needs: ask it for a verification letter before you move.

CDL: California to Nebraska

Transfers at the DMV. A commercial driver's licence transfers like any licence: within 30 days of becoming a Nebraska resident you surrender the California CDL at a Nebraska 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 Nebraska. Your driving record follows you through the federal CDLIS system.

  • Free building lots: a residential lot at no cost. For people who build a home in participating small towns (Curtis, Beatrice and others).

Openings filed in Nebraska

53 open positions filed with the Department of Labor by Nebraska employers who could not fill them locally.

Your own route from California to Nebraska

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CNA: California to Nebraska · RN or LPN: California to Nebraska · Electrician: California to Nebraska · Truck driver: California to Nebraska

From California to the states next to Nebraska

South Dakota (no state income tax) · Iowa (flat 3.8% state income tax) · Missouri (progressive, top rate 4.7%) · Kansas (progressive, top rate 5.58%) · Colorado (flat 4.4% state income tax) · Wyoming (no state income tax)

To Nebraska from the states next to California

Oregon · Nevada · Arizona

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