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Moving from Massachusetts to Nebraska as a journeyman electrician

What a journeyman electrician licensed in Massachusetts has to do to work in Nebraska, what the move does to your pay, and who in Nebraska is hiring from out of state.

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 Massachusetts licence comes from the Massachusetts Board of State Examiners of Electricians, a state body, which is what a reciprocity application needs: ask it for a verification letter before you move.

What the move does to your paycheck

On a $60,000 salary Nebraska leaves you roughly $816 a year more than Massachusetts does, because Nebraska's rate is lower.

SalaryMassachusetts state taxNebraska state taxDifference a year
$40,000$2,000$1,456+$544
$60,000$3,000$2,184+$816
$90,000$4,500$3,276+$1,224

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 Massachusetts: plus 4% on income above about $1 million. Property and sales tax are not in it.

CNA: Massachusetts to Nebraska

Transfers by reciprocity. Your Massachusetts certificate stays on the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Nurse Aide 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: Massachusetts to Nebraska

Endorsement, six to twelve weeks. Massachusetts is not in the compact, so your Massachusetts 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.

CDL: Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts 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.

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Openings filed in Nebraska

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

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From Massachusetts 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)

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New Hampshire · Vermont · New York · Connecticut · Rhode Island

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