Does a license hold any value if you’re working in a non-license state?

I just started my apprenticeship and I will be licensed in hopefully two years. I just moved to a licensed state because my partner is doing grad school here and I thought it would be the perfect time to do my apprenticeship.

The only thing is that I’m not sure I will live here for a long time. Plans always change of course, but I imagine I’ll probably move back home to be close to family in a couple of years. They live in Kansas, an unlicensed state. So if I moved to Kansas sometime after getting licensed, would I make just as much as an unlicensed optician?