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PennsylvaniaMoving from Kansas to Pennsylvania for work
What moves with you from Kansas to Pennsylvania: 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 Pennsylvania leaves you roughly $502 a year more than Kansas does, because Pennsylvania's rate is lower.
| Salary | Kansas state tax | Pennsylvania state tax | Difference a year |
|---|---|---|---|
| $40,000 | $1,562 | $1,228 | +$334 |
| $60,000 | $2,344 | $1,842 | +$502 |
| $90,000 | $3,515 | $2,763 | +$752 |
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 Pennsylvania: municipalities add an earned income tax, 1% in most places and 3.75% in Philadelphia. Property and sales tax are not in it.
CNA: Kansas to Pennsylvania
Transfers by reciprocity. Your Kansas certificate stays on the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, Nurse Aide Registry; to work in Pennsylvania you apply to the Pennsylvania Nurse Aide Registry (Pennsylvania Department of Education, administered by Credentia) 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: Kansas to Pennsylvania
Works on day one. Both Kansas and Pennsylvania are in the Nurse Licensure Compact. A multistate RN or LPN licence from Kansas is valid in Pennsylvania the day you arrive. Once Pennsylvania is your primary residence, apply there for a Pennsylvania multistate licence; most boards allow 30 to 60 days.
Electrician: Kansas to Pennsylvania
Licensed by the city. Pennsylvania has no state electrician licence; the City and county building departments decide what card you need, and it can differ between cities. No state electrician licence; Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and many municipalities license locally. Ask the contractor hiring you which municipality the first job is in and apply to that one. Your Kansas local licence is evidence of hours, not a licence there.
CDL: Kansas to Pennsylvania
Transfers at the DMV. A commercial driver's licence transfers like any licence: within 30 days of becoming a Pennsylvania resident you surrender the Kansas CDL at a Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania. Your driving record follows you through the federal CDLIS system.
Does Pennsylvania pay you to come?
No statewide program in Pennsylvania 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? Kansas has Choose Topeka and Rural Opportunity Zones. See moving from Pennsylvania to Kansas.
Openings filed in Pennsylvania
85 open positions filed with the Department of Labor by Pennsylvania employers who could not fill them locally.
- Credit Support Associate II/III- Commercial CreditBank of America · Philadelphia
- Market Financial Center Manager - Philadelphia MarketBank of America · Philadelphia
- Relationship Banker - PA North MarketBank of America · Allentown
- FarmworkerBrian Campbell Farms · Berwick · $14.4/hr
- FarmworkerRivendale Farms Pittsburgh, LLC · Bulger · $14.4/hr
- Farmworkers, Farm & Ranch AnimalsYoung Apiaries Inc · Cogan Station · $18.45/hr
Your own route from Kansas to Pennsylvania
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From Kansas to the states next to Pennsylvania
New York (progressive, top rate 10.9%) · New Jersey (progressive, top rate 10.75%) · Delaware (progressive, top rate 6.6%) · Maryland (progressive, top rate 5.75%) · West Virginia (progressive, top rate 4.82%) · Ohio (progressive, top rate 3.5%)
To Pennsylvania from the states next to Kansas
Nebraska · Missouri · Oklahoma · Colorado
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