Who pays to work? Registration fees

[Blueotter22]

Hello,

just posting here for traffic and hoping to gain some insight to other peoples professions really.

Im an allied health care professional and we’ve just been told that the HCPC are looking to increase our annual fees by 20% to keep up with inflation apparently.

For me, a single mum and band 6 NHS professional this means I’ll be paying £33 a month for my HCPC fees and membership to my professional body. £405 a year just to legally do my job. I think this is outrageous and unfair, especially when they haven’t justified exactly what they are spending their 33 million on (that’s how much the HCPC take in fees a year)

I can’t do my job without being a member of the HCPC and having indemnity cover. I either pay or find a job elsewhere outside of healthcare.

I understand it’s important to have the HCPC and a process to report unsafe healthcare workers etc. But we also have to pay for our DBS and rarely get dedicated CPD time to meet our HCPC standards. Yet we can be called upon for audit to show how we have maintained our CPD.

Anyways, it just got me thinking, which other professions pay to work and if you wouldn’t mind sharing - how much do you pay and what do you get for that?

I know nurses and social workers pay too but unsure their fees. Do accountants/ lawyers pay to be registered?

thanks so much in advance

Doctor, so same sector. I pay £250 per month for professional fees. £40 is union, so not strictly necessary, but the others are mandatory.

Engineers to be chartered. Yearly fee, can’t quite remember exact amount but it’s maybe 300/400. Of course a lot of employers reimburse this.

Ouch that's steep. I'm a nurse and pay £120 a year registration and £16.40 a month union fees, but my employer pays them both for me.

You can claim them back against tax, but obviously that only reduces the cost by 20%

£250 a month?! Blimey... I had no idea it was that much steeper than ours.

You do get a better union though!

Engineering, around £350 per year for chartership payment. My work pays for one professional membership per year so it’s covered.

Accountant - £400 and nothing particularly. They have an ethics helpline which is useful if stuff goes really very badly.

I’m not in a union but if I was my employer wouldn’t cover those costs.

FFS. Because who's hcpc related job pay has increased by 20% this year? I'll tell you. None!

Solicitor here. I'm in-house, and it's about £350 per year but my employer pays it. It feels very unfair that healthcare workers have to pay their own.

£400 a year - accountant, but I’m fortunate my employer reimburses.

The OP is talking about professional registration not a trade union.

I have to pay be to be chartered but it's reimbursed.

It is really shit that those in lower earning professions don't get reimbursed.

Mine is cheap. £90 a year and my employer pays part of it.

Social workers pay £90 a year to Social Work England. In all the LAs I've worked in we've been able to claim it back through expenses.

your fees are so high because the HPCP thinks it's ok to spend £17k on its staff Christmas parties

www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/christmas_parties_cost

Accountant here, I pay about £400 for my Chartered Institute fees. My employer now reimburses me but when I worked for a university they wouldn't

My hcpc registration has gone up to £96 a year? I thought that was the standard hcpc fee?

I was reading about this today - it's such a joke, and I honestly don't know what my professional registration body does for me.

Accountant and I pay about £400, not reimbursed by my employer which is a pain when they are due in January!

Actuary. It is about £700 a year. We get a magazine every month though so totally worth it! 😉

I’m a midwife and I pay the NMC retention £120 per year, my employer doesn’t pay it! It’s annoying because we are really struggling to cover utilities and childcare. It’s also annoying that other sectors who have to pay these things their company covers it, I don’t begrudge it anyone obviously but other sectors seem to get better treated regarding this kind of thing

£140 a year (discounted student rate) for chartership in purchasing.
I think it's absurd that medical professionals have to fund registration fees themselves!

This is what I meant but I waffled it haha

HR Director and my chartered membership is about £200 a year? Reimbursed by my employer though

Dentist here. my indemnity is £350 a month and GDC approx £690 a year. i do mainly NHS work and don't earn anything like what people think we do

What job do you do. It sounds a lot to pay.