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Moving from Massachusetts to Vermont for work

What moves with you from Massachusetts to Vermont: 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 Vermont takes roughly $675 a year more than Massachusetts does.

SalaryMassachusetts state taxVermont state taxDifference a year
$40,000$2,000$2,450-$450
$60,000$3,000$3,675-$675
$90,000$4,500$5,513-$1,013

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 Vermont

Transfers by reciprocity. Your Massachusetts certificate stays on the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Nurse Aide Registry; to work in Vermont you apply to the Vermont Board of Nursing (Licensed Nursing Assistant) for reciprocity. Vermont licenses nursing assistants; an out-of-state CNA applies for an LNA licence by endorsement. Most registries list you within two to six weeks.

RN and LPN: Massachusetts to Vermont

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

Reciprocity likely. Vermont licenses electricians at state level through the Vermont Division of Fire Safety, Electrical Licensing, and reciprocity with Maine and New Hampshire and endorsement for others with equivalent licences. 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.

CDL: Massachusetts to Vermont

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

  • New Relocating Worker Grant: up to $7,500 for moving costs. For people who move to Vermont for a job with a Vermont employer; funded in rounds, closes when the money is gone.

Openings filed in Vermont

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

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From Massachusetts to the states next to Vermont

New York (progressive, top rate 10.9%) · New Hampshire (no state income tax)

To Vermont from the states next to Massachusetts

New Hampshire · New York · Connecticut · Rhode Island

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