Best states to move for higher take-home pay
Some states have no state income tax, so your take-home pay goes further. Compare moves from high-tax states to low- or no-tax states with our relocation salary calculator.
US states with no state income tax
US states we compare
- California → Texas
- California → Florida
- California → Arizona
- California → Colorado
- California → Georgia
- California → Illinois
- California → Michigan
- California → Minnesota
- California → Pennsylvania
- California → Massachusetts
- California → New York
- California → California
- California → Maryland
- California → Washington
- California → Nevada
- California → Oregon
- California → Tennessee
- California → North Carolina
- California → Ohio
- California → Indiana
- California → Utah
- California → Missouri
- California → Wisconsin
- California → Louisiana
- California → Alabama
- California → Alaska
- California → Arkansas
- California → Connecticut
- California → Delaware
- California → Hawaii
- California → Idaho
- California → Iowa
- California → Kansas
- California → Kentucky
- California → Maine
- California → Mississippi
- California → Montana
- California → Nebraska
- California → New Hampshire
- California → New Jersey
- California → New Mexico
- California → North Dakota
- California → Oklahoma
- California → Rhode Island
- California → South Carolina
- California → South Dakota
- California → Vermont
- California → Virginia
- California → West Virginia
- California → Wyoming
Use our relocation salary calculator to compare specific cities, see equivalent salary, and get after-tax take-home for both locations. You can also open city-to-city comparison pages (e.g. NYC to Austin, San Francisco to Houston) from the calculator.
How we compare: take-home uses IRS and state revenue rules (US) and CRA rules (Canada); cost-of-living uses widely cited indices and local data. See our Sources page for tax authorities and data sources.