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Moving from Missouri to Arkansas for work

What moves with you from Missouri to Arkansas: 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 Arkansas leaves you roughly $336 a year more than Missouri does, because Arkansas's rate is lower.

SalaryMissouri state taxArkansas state taxDifference a year
$40,000$1,316$1,092+$224
$60,000$1,974$1,638+$336
$90,000$2,961$2,457+$504

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 Missouri: Kansas City and St. Louis add a 1% earnings tax. Property and sales tax are not in it.

CNA: Missouri to Arkansas

Transfers by reciprocity. Your Missouri certificate stays on the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Certified Nurse Assistant Registry; to work in Arkansas you apply to the Arkansas Office of Long Term Care, 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: Missouri to Arkansas

Works on day one. Both Missouri and Arkansas are in the Nurse Licensure Compact. A multistate RN or LPN licence from Missouri is valid in Arkansas the day you arrive. Once Arkansas is your primary residence, apply there for a Arkansas multistate licence; most boards allow 30 to 60 days.

Electrician: Missouri to Arkansas

Exam likely. Arkansas licenses at state level through the Arkansas Department of Labor and Licensing, Electrical Section and reciprocates with other state boards, but Missouri licenses locally through the Missouri Division of Professional Registration (optional statewide licence) and city building departments, which is not a party to those agreements. Expect to document your hours and sit the Arkansas journeyman exam.

CDL: Missouri to Arkansas

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

  • Life Works Here (Northwest Arkansas): up to $10,000 plus a bicycle. For remote and tech workers moving to the Bentonville and Fayetteville region; runs in rounds.

Openings filed in Arkansas

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

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From Missouri to the states next to Arkansas

Tennessee (no state income tax) · Mississippi (flat 4.4% state income tax) · Louisiana (flat 3% state income tax) · Texas (no state income tax) · Oklahoma (progressive, top rate 4.75%)

To Arkansas from the states next to Missouri

Iowa · Illinois · Kentucky · Tennessee · Oklahoma · Kansas · Nebraska

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