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Moving from Wyoming to Nevada as a certified nursing assistant

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

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

Neither Wyoming nor Nevada taxes wages, so the move changes nothing on the state line of your paycheck.

SalaryWyoming state taxNevada state taxDifference a year
$40,000$0$0$0
$60,000$0$0$0
$90,000$0$0$0

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.

RN and LPN: Wyoming to Nevada

Endorsement needed. Nevada is not in the Nurse Licensure Compact, so your Wyoming multistate licence does not work there. Apply to the Nevada Board of Nursing for licensure by endorsement before you move; it commonly takes six to twelve weeks. Your Wyoming licence stays valid for compact states.

Electrician: Wyoming to Nevada

Licensed by the city. Nevada has no state electrician licence; the Nevada State Contractors Board decide what card you need, and it can differ between cities. Contractor licences are state-issued; journeyman cards are county-issued in Clark and Washoe counties where required. Ask the contractor hiring you which municipality the first job is in and apply to that one. Your Wyoming state licence is evidence of hours, not a licence there.

CDL: Wyoming to Nevada

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

No statewide program in Nevada 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 Nevada

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

Your own route from Wyoming to Nevada

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RN or LPN: Wyoming to Nevada · Electrician: Wyoming to Nevada · Truck driver: Wyoming to Nevada · All licences: Wyoming to Nevada

From Wyoming to the states next to Nevada

Oregon (progressive, top rate 9.9%) · Idaho (flat 5.3% state income tax) · Utah (flat 4.5% state income tax) · Arizona (flat 2.5% state income tax) · California (progressive, top rate 13.3%)

To Nevada from the states next to Wyoming

Montana · South Dakota · Nebraska · Colorado · Utah · Idaho

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