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Moving from New Jersey to Mississippi for work

What moves with you from New Jersey 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 leaves you roughly $1,875 a year more than New Jersey does, because Mississippi's rate is lower.

SalaryNew Jersey state taxMississippi state taxDifference a year
$40,000$3,010$1,760+$1,250
$60,000$4,515$2,640+$1,875
$90,000$6,773$3,960+$2,813

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: New Jersey to Mississippi

Transfers by reciprocity. Your New Jersey certificate stays on the New Jersey Department of Health, Nurse Aide Registry; 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: New Jersey to Mississippi

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

Electrician: New Jersey to Mississippi

Reciprocity likely. Mississippi licenses electricians at state level through the Mississippi State Board of Contractors, and The state licenses electrical contractors; journeymen are licensed by cities where at all. Contractor reciprocity with a handful of states. Your New Jersey licence comes from the New Jersey Board of Examiners of Electrical Contractors, a state body, which is what a reciprocity application needs: ask it for a verification letter before you move.

CDL: New Jersey 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 New Jersey 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 New Jersey to Mississippi

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CNA: New Jersey to Mississippi · RN or LPN: New Jersey to Mississippi · Electrician: New Jersey to Mississippi · Truck driver: New Jersey to Mississippi

From New Jersey 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 New Jersey

New York · Pennsylvania · Delaware

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