Member with ICE is £280ish. Once again a lot of companies pay for it (mine does) and as you get further up the ladder does start to become a lot more of a prerequisite. I know my firm are starting to put a glass ceiling and where you can get without IEng or CEng.

Aerospace: £228 for full membership of the Royal Aeronautical Society and a further £36 for the Engineering Council (CEng) annual fee.

I thought I was getting ripped off, but on reading some of the other posts it seems I’m getting a bargain!

RICS here as well…They don’t offer much 🙁

However, it’s better to be inside the tent pissing out than pissing in. IMO

MODUS is a good fire starter 😉

Domestic electrical – around £400 / yr.

It is difficult to see why it is £400. I get an Assessor visit me for around 3 hours each year to judge my competence and see if my paperwork is neatly filed. Other than that, I dont really use any of the ‘benefits’ – the Tech helpline is pretty useless for anyone who has a brain, a magazine that is thrown straight into the bin, and a library of Tech articles which are available via google anyway.

I’m in the IET at Tech level too, though thats a personal decision and has little bearing on my work, but it’s nice to be slightly more clued up about things.

footflaps – Engineering consultancy. A lot of client’s use it as a benchmark, and will often accept someone’s CV if the experience is borderline but they have CEng. Shows a good level of commitment and experience to their profession. The example above of 10yrs and CEng is actually a fairly common thing in bid documents.

In the Geol Soc the Fellow is £200, Chartered adds a one-off £85, I believe. It gets you library, one journal from a choice of, and monthly mag with something topical. And you can charge it against tax.

MODUS is a good fire starter

even the ones i shot the covers for? 😕

I ditched it. Not a requirement to be CEng. Company encourage it but don’t pay for it therefore I can live with MEng.

Mine isn’t a proper professional organisation, but that’s OK because my work pays for it. IIRC it’s £400 a year

MODUS is a good fire starter

But it’s about as absorbent as a welsh slate though redthunder 😉

even the ones i shot the covers for

My arse appreciated them. Thanks.

My arse appreciated them. Thanks.

so did my bank account. so do keep up your membership 🙂

Just added it up. Over £1k for professional organisations (HCPC, FRCpath, FsocBio) and societies (ESHRE, ASRM, BFS, BSGM) and doing some further qualifications (HCLD).

I need to cut down!

My federation sub’s are clearly well spent protecting my best interests.

are you obliged to be a member of the federation bregante?

Seems to be that some are optional. I thought a Professional Membership would mean you can’t do your job with out it. In the case of Paramedic you can’t even use the title unless you have the qualifications and registered.

That headquarters picture reminds me of GSK’s new headquarters from about 10-15 years ago.

At a time when our site removed all plants to save the 10K watering bill (I have no idea, that was the figure bandied around) despite loads of people offering to do it for free, the new headquarters was just opening up which contained “the street”; coffee shops, gym, launderette (1 day turnaround on suits) and a host of other benefits including a jungle of plants which they caught on video and e-mailed everyone this….

That motivated people a lot.

RTPI – £290. Employer pays it fortunately; I wouldn’t bother otherwise unless I was in sole practice. RICS does sound a rip off.

not necessarily Drac. You can do most of the “professional” work that has a label without being a member.
Most of the titles are protected in use and for some stuff in Surveying you arent insured* unless youre registered to do a particular function (thinking formal valuation work here) – and that’s what people are buying when they instruct you to value something, they want back up in case you screw it up.

I can continue to do what I do with or without my Letters. I just cant call myself a Chartered Surveyor anymore.

General Medical Council: £390/year (mandatory)
Medical defence society/professional indemnity: £283/year (I personally wouldn’t work without it)
Royal College of Physicians: £126/year (mandatory if I want to use my postgrad qualification letters after my name)
British Cardiovascular Society: £100/year (optional)

I also paid ~£800 for the mandatory ePortfolio for the duration of my 5 years of training, and will have to pay £400 to be registered as a consultant at the end of that time.

2.99 a year for the Tufty club( journalist)

@stoner

It does have very rough feel to the paper. Very tactile 🙂

Not obliged Stoner, no but we are forbidden from joining any unions as such so it’s them or nothing. And if we ever do get in the mire then they’re pretty much the only protection we get.

In present company I feel somewhat embarrassed by the mere £50pa us Scottish teachers pay to the GTCS… 😳

Our Nursing & Midwifery Council fees are £100 per year, rising to £120 next April. If you don’t pay you can’t practice, full stop.

There are few (if any) perks for registrants. The NMC is predominately a judge, jury and potential executioner that we have to pay for, rather than the general public who it ‘protects’.

They’ve a nice HQ in the middle of London and a few regional offices in the not so cheap parts of other cities, not that we get a chance to see/use them (unless we’re in trouble).

British AirLine Pilots Assocn (BALPA) charge 1% of salary (with some tax relief) which works out at £84 a month for me at the moment 😯

£130, but I don’t bother as it’s fairly clear they’re just a self-serving entity. Work have/would pay, but a waste of tax-payers’ money 😉

Pretty sure medics pay at least the same if not more.

General Medical Council: £390/year (mandatory)
Medical defence society/professional indemnity: £283/year (I personally wouldn’t work without it)
Royal College of Physicians: £126/year (mandatory if I want to use my postgrad qualification letters after my name)
British Cardiovascular Society: £100/year (optional)

Sorry legolam, it’s going to get considerably more expensive after you are registered as a consultant. Per year:-

GMC 390ukp,
Medical defence society around 1200ukp pa,
Royal College of Physicians only 310ukp by neat trick of being in a Scottish College and therefore being an “overseas” member in Yorkshire ( London College was around 600ukp when I jumped ship )

Semi compulsory BMA (trade union) 432ukp
Specialist societies X3 a further 200ukp

Not sure I want to add all that up. I think it is roughly a Superfly per year.

Ah well.

I can continue to do what I do with or without my Letters. I just cant call myself a Chartered Surveyor anymore.

Ah! Cheers. Guy a few doors up from me does that and other property related things, can’t remember what he calls himself.

Not obliged Stoner, no but we are forbidden from joining any unions as such so it’s them or nothing. And if we ever do get in the mire then they’re pretty much the only protection we get.

It’s not the same as a Professional body really though. You could do you job without them but use them for your own protection.

I am a mechanical engineer and I work in the aerospace industry. I stopped paying ImechE a few years ago when I realised that it was doing SFA for my employability as well as for my career prospect.
It depends on you alone what is in your CV and what you are going to make of your career.
In all the interviews, job offers and headhunting experiences I had, I cannot recall it being even mentioned (wether I was a member).

I recall a workmate calling it “freemasonry for engineers” 😉

£211 for my prof body. That doesn’t include PI cover or practicing certificate (as I am not yet a “responsible individual” I don’t yet have these bills to pay) but they will be extras in due course when/if I next get promoted.

I probably have about £1000 of cpd costs for courses and the like on top of that although you can spend a lot less if you do a lot of webinar / online training.

Royal College Veterinary Surgeons £299, mandatory to be able to practise.

BVA £288

BSAVA £222

Veterinary Defense Society payment for legal cover thankfully usually paid for by practice.

TMIET is £137 pa, my employer pays for 2/3.
CIS is £450 pa, my employer pays all. Not really a professional membership, more a certification.

MRCVS £299, DACVIM $500, Specialist status £100, Societies £400, professional indemnity £1200

If I gave up I could buy a SC nomad after a few years…

Getting off lightly, try being an outdoor leader….

BMC, British Cycling, SNAM, BASI, BAIML, MTA….

Member of Royal Town Planning Institute (MRTPI) – £290 but employer pays
I have also sometimes paid for Membership of Chartered Management Institute (MCMI) – £149 although cost depends on what qualifications / experience you have

Mrs FD is a surgeon and like legolam, it costs get a small fortune every year just so she can turn up to work, easily £1k + .

Are mandatory exams included in the total too? If so Royal College exams £5k ish, annual ATLS £500. Other squidly exams £1k

Plus more

British AirLine Pilots Assocn (BALPA) charge 1% of salary (with some tax relief) which works out at £84 a month for me at the moment

that’s quite a lot, but then so is 8400 a month…

British AirLine Pilots Assocn (BALPA) charge 1% of salary (with some tax relief) which works out at £84 a month for me at the moment

1% of your salary is less than what most of my staff pay.

Stoner,
In respect of the CPD I know 😉 a lot of surveyors who register theirs using all the free cpd courses that aren’t run by RICS to fulfil the requirement. Till they start asking for the cpd certificates that most courses hand out seems to work.
“Glorified estate agent” take it you qualified in estate management then 🙂

free cpd courses that aren’t run by RICS to fulfil the requirement.

Links or it isnt true 😉

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