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Moving from Nevada to Mississippi for work

What moves with you from Nevada to Mississippi: 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 Mississippi takes roughly $2,640 a year more than Nevada does, because you are leaving a state with no income tax on wages.

SalaryNevada state taxMississippi state taxDifference a year
$40,000$0$1,760-$1,760
$60,000$0$2,640-$2,640
$90,000$0$3,960-$3,960

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: Nevada to Mississippi

Transfers by reciprocity. Your Nevada certificate stays on the Nevada State Board of Nursing, Certified Nursing Assistant program; to work in Mississippi you apply to the Mississippi State 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: Nevada to Mississippi

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

Exam likely. Mississippi licenses at state level through the Mississippi State Board of Contractors and reciprocates with other state boards, but Nevada licenses locally through the Nevada State Contractors Board, which is not a party to those agreements. Expect to document your hours and sit the Mississippi journeyman exam.

CDL: Nevada to Mississippi

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

No statewide program in Mississippi 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 Mississippi

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

Your own route from Nevada to Mississippi

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From Nevada to the states next to Mississippi

Tennessee (no state income tax) · Alabama (progressive, top rate 5%) · Louisiana (flat 3% state income tax) · Arkansas (progressive, top rate 3.9%)

To Mississippi from the states next to Nevada

Oregon · Idaho · Utah · Arizona · California

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