First you are going to enter the form W2 in the federal interview to match your copy of the W2. You will be making the allocations in the individual state interviews not in the federal W2 entries.
Which state was your working state? That state is going to tax you on all those wages. Some of it will be as part-year resident and some as non-resident, since you moved. You should work that state return first.
You will need to calculate what the state allocations should be. You can do that by dividing your box 1 wages by the total number of pay periods in the year. Then multiply that pay per period by the number of periods in each status.
First the non-resident period in your working state. That is the time you were living in the non-working state. Only allocate that amount of wages to the working state at this time. Finish that working state interview and take note of the income and income taxed by that state. Those numbers will be used to complete the part-year return of the non-working state and claim a credit for "taxes paid to another state."
Next, complete the part-year return of the non-working state. Allocate the income as noted earlier (it should match the non-resident period for the working state that you just completed). When you get to the credit section look for the credit for "taxes paid to another state" and complete that topic as well.
Finally go back to the working state interview and now be sure that the allocation includes all the wages since you worked in that state the entire year.
In the end you will have two part-year returns. One for a state you worked in all year that is taxing all the wages (the resident time and non-resident time). The other state will tax you only for the wages earned while you lived there (resident time) and will include a credit for taxes paid to the working state for those wages.
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