Moving between states / Nebraska
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Nebraska, Truck driverMoving from Illinois to Nebraska as a CDL holder
What a CDL holder licensed in Illinois has to do to work in Nebraska, what the move does to your pay, and who in Nebraska 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 Nebraska resident you surrender the Illinois 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.
What the move does to your paycheck
On a $60,000 salary Nebraska leaves you roughly $786 a year more than Illinois does, because Nebraska's rate is lower.
| Salary | Illinois state tax | Nebraska state tax | Difference a year |
|---|---|---|---|
| $40,000 | $1,980 | $1,456 | +$524 |
| $60,000 | $2,970 | $2,184 | +$786 |
| $90,000 | $4,455 | $3,276 | +$1,179 |
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: Illinois to Nebraska
Transfers by reciprocity. Your Illinois certificate stays on the Illinois Department of Public Health, Health Care Worker Registry; 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: Illinois to Nebraska
Endorsement, six to twelve weeks. Illinois is not in the compact, so your Illinois 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: Illinois to Nebraska
Exam likely. Nebraska licenses at state level through the Nebraska State Electrical Division and reciprocates with other state boards, but Illinois licenses locally through the City and county building departments, which is not a party to those agreements. Expect to document your hours and sit the Nebraska journeyman exam.
Does Nebraska pay you to come?
- 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.
- Farmworkers, Farm & Ranch AnimalsWilson Flying Diamond Ranch · Lakeside · $20.56/hr
- Loan Sales SpecialistOneMain Financial · Grand Island
- Farmworkers & Laborers, Crop, Nursery, GreenhouseCSS Farms LLC · North Platte · $16.25/hr
- Relationship BankerBank of America · Omaha
- Farm Equipment MechanicKnobel Farms, Inc · Fairbury · $18.17/hr
- Farm Truck DriverTriple T Farms LLC · Ord · $16.25/hr
Your own route from Illinois to Nebraska
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From Illinois 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 Illinois
Wisconsin · Iowa · Missouri · Kentucky · Indiana
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