Membership fee

The easiest way to pay the membership fee is to agree with your employer that it is collected directly from your salary.

Fill in the fee collection agreement and submit it to your payroll administrator. After the form has been signed, send the form to Pro’s member services and we will send your payroll administration the necessary information for collecting the membership fee.

Those who join on or after 1 November 2024 will be required to pay a monthly fee of 12.90 euros themselves. This fee cannot be entered into employer collection.

You have the right to be exempted from paying the membership fee if you have no taxable earned income or unemployment benefits.

Let us know of the exemption by filling in the online form.

If you pay your membership fee yourself, you will need a reference number to pay it. You have one reference for the entire year and the invoice due date is the last day of each month. The payment will be applied to the membership fee for the month in which you pay the membership fee.

You can also pay your membership fees directly from the Pro mobile application (download the application to your Android phone or iOS phone) or in Proplus via your online bank. You can also pay your membership fee with an e-Invoice.

With the membership fee calculator, you can easily calculate your membership fee and get the necessary reference and payment information in an instant. You can access the calculator by logging in to Proplus.fi > Jäsentietoni > Jäsenmaksu- ja viitenumerolaskuri (in Finnish). Sign in using your online banking credentials or Mobile Certificate.

By paying your membership fee on time, you’ll ensure that your membership benefits and unemployment security remain uninterrupted. If, for any reason, your payment has not been processed, please contact our member services.

According to our rules, unpaid membership fees of more than three months may lead to expulsion from both the union and the unemployment fund.

If your employer pays your membership fee on your behalf, check your payslip to see that the membership fee has been paid.

You can check your paid membership fees in the My Information section of the Trade Union Pro mobile application or by logging in to Proplus.fi > Jäsentietoni (in Finnish).

You can deduct the membership fee in your taxation in full. In practice this means that when you pay your membership fee, it is deducted from your taxable income in your taxation.

We notify the tax authorities every year about paid membership fees so you do not have to anything to receive the tax deduction, whether you are a self-paying member or your employer collects the fee from your salary.

Please remember to check that the information in your pre-completed tax return is correct. 

You can find your paid membership fees in the Pro mobile application or by logging in to Proplus.fi > Jäsentietoni (in Finnish).

You do not have to pay the membership fee if you have no taxable earned income or unemployment benefits. Please remember to notify our member services of such periods since we do not get the information from your employer or authorities.

You are exempted from membership fee if you are:

• On sick leave (unpaid period)
• On pregnancy, parental or care leave or other similar leave (unpaid period)
• In the military or women's voluntary military or non-military service 
• A full-time student (no salary)
• Unemployed (receiving labour market subsidy from KELA)
• Other reason as specified in the Unemployment Security Act

If you are receiving earnings-related unemployment benefit or other allowance from Unemployment Fund Pro, you do not need to inform us about a period of no salary.

Student membership is free of charge. If you also joined the Unemployment Fund Pro, you pay the fund's membership fee only for the months you are working and receiving a salary. The membership fee is fully tax-deductible. 

The membership fee is paid as a self-payment or the employer can deduct the membership fee from your salary if you are a posted employee.

Please contact the Unemployment Fund Pro before going abroad and check how working abroad affects your unemployment security.

Did you terminate your YTK membership before the end of the year? In this case you should ask them to reimburse you for the membership fees for the remainder of the year.

Did you join Pro from another union or unemployment fund, which collects an annual membership fee? If they are not reimbursing your membership fee, please contact our member services and we will reimburse you the unemployment fund fee for the remainder of the year.

Your reimbursement will cover the period from the month following your membership in Pro until the end of the year.

Membership fee is 1.25 per cent of your taxable income.  The taxable income includes your salary and fringe benefits, holiday bonuses and holiday compensations as well as salary for notice period when terminating the employment.

The membership fee is also paid without an upper limit from all compensations or other receivables you may receive because of an employment dispute managed by the union. 

The unemployment fund membership fee is collected automatically from benefits paid by Unemployment Fund Pro. 

The total membership fee consists of the union, unemployment fund and local association fees. Overpaid fees are not liable for refund. 

If you join Pro in the middle of the month, the membership fee is calculated as follows:
Divide your monthly salary by the number of actual working days in a given month (21 or 22) and multiply the result by the number of remaining working days of the month in question. 

The Pro Seniorit determines the senior member membership fee at its annual meeting. As a member, you will automatically receive an invoice for the membership fee by the end of the year.

By paying the membership fee, you will gain access to the senior association's membership benefits for one year at a time.

If you do not pay the invoice, your membership in the senior association will be terminated.