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Moving from Michigan to Indiana for work

What moves with you from Michigan to Indiana: 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 Indiana leaves you roughly $750 a year more than Michigan does, because Indiana's rate is lower.

SalaryMichigan state taxIndiana state taxDifference a year
$40,000$1,700$1,200+$500
$60,000$2,550$1,800+$750
$90,000$3,825$2,700+$1,125

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 Indiana: counties add a local income tax, roughly 1 to 3%. In Michigan: Detroit and some cities add a local income tax. Property and sales tax are not in it.

CNA: Michigan to Indiana

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 Indiana you apply to the Indiana Department of 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 Indiana

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

Licensed by the city. Indiana 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; Indianapolis, Fort Wayne and other cities issue their own, several with reciprocity among Indiana cities. Ask the contractor hiring you which municipality the first job is in and apply to that one. Your Michigan state licence is evidence of hours, not a licence there.

CDL: Michigan to Indiana

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

  • MakeMyMove town offers: typically $5,000 plus local perks. For remote workers moving to participating Indiana towns (Noblesville, Greensburg and others); each offer is its own program.

Openings filed in Indiana

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

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

From Michigan to the states next to Indiana

Ohio (progressive, top rate 3.5%) · Kentucky (flat 4% state income tax) · Illinois (flat 4.95% state income tax)

To Indiana from the states next to Michigan

Ohio · Wisconsin

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