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Moving from Michigan to Connecticut for work

What moves with you from Michigan to Connecticut: 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 Connecticut takes roughly $386 a year more than Michigan does.

SalaryMichigan state taxConnecticut state taxDifference a year
$40,000$1,700$1,957-$257
$60,000$2,550$2,936-$386
$90,000$3,825$4,404-$579

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 Michigan: Detroit and some cities add a local income tax. Property and sales tax are not in it.

CNA: Michigan to Connecticut

Transfers by reciprocity. Your Michigan certificate stays on the Michigan Nurse Aide Registry (administered by Prometric for the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs); to work in Connecticut you apply to the Connecticut Department of Public Health, 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: Michigan to Connecticut

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

Exam required. Connecticut licenses electricians through the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection and does not reciprocate with any state. Your Michigan hours count toward eligibility, so get them certified in writing by the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, Electrical Administrative Board before you move and book the Connecticut exam early.

CDL: Michigan to Connecticut

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

No statewide program in Connecticut 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.

Openings filed in Connecticut

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

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CNA: Michigan to Connecticut · RN or LPN: Michigan to Connecticut · Electrician: Michigan to Connecticut · Truck driver: Michigan to Connecticut

From Michigan to the states next to Connecticut

New York (progressive, top rate 10.9%) · Massachusetts (flat 5% state income tax) · Rhode Island (progressive, top rate 5.99%)

To Connecticut from the states next to Michigan

Ohio · Indiana · Wisconsin

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