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Moving from Missouri to South Carolina as a certified nursing assistant

What a certified nursing assistant licensed in Missouri has to do to work in South Carolina, what the move does to your pay, and who in South Carolina is hiring from out of state.

Transfers by reciprocity. Your Missouri certificate stays on the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Certified Nurse Assistant Registry; to work in South Carolina you apply to the South Carolina Nurse Aide Registry (Department of Health and Human Services, administered by Credentia) 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.

What the move does to your paycheck

On a $60,000 salary South Carolina takes roughly $630 a year more than Missouri does.

SalaryMissouri state taxSouth Carolina state taxDifference a year
$40,000$1,316$1,736-$420
$60,000$1,974$2,604-$630
$90,000$2,961$3,906-$945

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.

RN and LPN: Missouri to South Carolina

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

Electrician: Missouri to South Carolina

Exam likely. South Carolina licenses at state level through the South Carolina Contractor's Licensing Board and Residential Builders Commission 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 South Carolina journeyman exam.

CDL: Missouri to South Carolina

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

No statewide program in South Carolina 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 South Carolina

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

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RN or LPN: Missouri to South Carolina · Electrician: Missouri to South Carolina · Truck driver: Missouri to South Carolina · All licences: Missouri to South Carolina

From Missouri to the states next to South Carolina

North Carolina (flat 4.25% state income tax) · Georgia (flat 5.19% state income tax)

To South Carolina from the states next to Missouri

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