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Moving from Minnesota to Kansas for work

What moves with you from Minnesota to Kansas: 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 Kansas leaves you roughly $1,793 a year more than Minnesota does, because Kansas's rate is lower.

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. Property and sales tax are not in it.

CNA: Minnesota to Kansas

Transfers by reciprocity. Your Minnesota certificate stays on the Minnesota Department of Health, Nursing Assistant Registry; to work in Kansas you apply to the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability 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: Minnesota to Kansas

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

Licensed by the city. Kansas 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; Wichita, Topeka, Kansas City and most counties license locally and many reciprocate with each other. Ask the contractor hiring you which municipality the first job is in and apply to that one. Your Minnesota state licence is evidence of hours, not a licence there.

CDL: Minnesota to Kansas

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

Does Kansas pay you to come?

• Choose Topeka: up to $15,000. For people who take a job in Shawnee County or move there as remote workers; the employer matches part of it.
• Rural Opportunity Zones: student loan repayment up to $15,000 over five years, plus an income tax waiver in some counties. For graduates moving to one of the designated rural counties.

Going the other way? Minnesota has Harmony new-home rebate. See moving from Kansas to Minnesota.

Openings filed in Kansas

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

• Bilingual Pharmacy Technician - Spanish (Call Center)McKesson · Overland Park
• Pharmacy Technician (Call Center)McKesson · Overland Park
• Ag Equipment OperatorJohn Young Trust · Burrton · $19.71/hr
• Agricultural Equipment OperatorN and A Farms · Atwood · $15.18/hr
• Farm WorkerFrank L Wedel · Wallace · $15.18/hr
• Relationship BankerBank of America · Overland Park

Same move, by trade

CNA: Minnesota to Kansas · RN or LPN: Minnesota to Kansas · Electrician: Minnesota to Kansas · Truck driver: Minnesota to Kansas

From Minnesota to the states next to Kansas

Nebraska (progressive, top rate 5.2%) · Missouri (progressive, top rate 4.7%) · Oklahoma (progressive, top rate 4.75%) · Colorado (flat 4.4% state income tax)

To Kansas from the states next to Minnesota

North Dakota · South Dakota · Iowa · Wisconsin

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