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Membership fees

With SuPer’s membership fee, you will receive a wide and diverse range of membership benefits, support with work-related issues, as well as the membership in the Super Unemployment Fund. SuPer body of representatives decides on membership fees once a year at at its autumn meeting.

To ensure the validity of SuPer’s member benefits please make sure that your membership fees are always up to date.

Membership fees in 2025

For professionals, the membership fee is 1.2% of your salary, for students the membership is free.

Employed member

The membership fee is 1.2% of all income subject to tax (gross salary). All bonuses and holiday pay are included in the income. The membership fee includes the unemployment fund membership fee.

Calculate your membership fee: Multiply your gross salary by 0.012 to get your membership fee in euros.

Student

If you are for the first time studying to become a practical nurse or pursuing a degree in social and health care, or education and guidance, and have not been a member of SuPer before, you are considered a student member of SuPer. Student membership is free until graduation.

Graduate student (you are studying a second degree program or a completely new degree)

A postgraduate student refers to a person who has joined SuPer as a member and continues or complements their studies. A postgraduate student is, for example, a member who originally joined the union as a practical nurse and is now supplementing their degree with studies in another field of expertise, or university studies.

  • The membership fee is 10 €/month for those calendar months when you do not receive salary income, i.e. you are solely studying.
  • If you receive salary income during your postgraduate studies, the membership fee is 1.2% of your gross salary and the 10 € fee is not paid.
  • If you continue your studies through an apprenticeship and receive a salary, the membership fee is 1.2% of your gross salary.
  • If you are studying while receiving unemployment benefits from the Unemployment Fund, the membership fee is 1.2% of your daily allowance. The Unemployment Fund will deduct the fee directly from your daily allowance. If you also receive a salary, you must pay a membership fee of 1.2% of your taxable earned income.
  • A postgraduate student, who is participating in a training program paid by e.g. your home municipality’s employment services, a pension institution or an insurance company, can apply for an exemption from membership fees.

A temporarily absent/stay-at-home member of the workforce

If you are not registered as a job seeker at your home municipality’s employment services, the membership fee is 10 €/month.

Pensioner

  • The membership fee for those currently on old age pension, disability, or unemployment pension is 30 €/year.
  • If a member wishes to maintain their membership in the Unemployment Fund, the membership fee for the fund is 84 €/year.

Entrepreneur or private family daycare provider

The membership fee for a full-time entrepreneur is 10 €/month.

Membership abroad

  • While working abroad for a short period (up to 6 months), you membership fee is 1.2% of your gross salary.
  • While living abroad, your membership fee is 10 €/month. It does not include the Unemployment Fund membership fee.

Unemployed member

  • While receiving compensation from Kela, you are exempt from membership fees.
  • While receiving an earnings-related daily allowance from the Super Unemployment Fund, the membership fee is 1.2% of the daily allowance. The Unemployment Fund collects the fee directly from the allowance.
  • If you do gig work or receive adjusted daily allowance, you must pay a 1.2% membership fee from your earned salary either by yourself or by authorizing your employer to deduct the membership fee directly from your salary.

Membership while on family leave

  • While Kela pays benefits (maternity allowance, paternity allowance, parental allowance, home care allowance), you are exempt from membership fees.
  • During paid time, the membership fee is 1.2% (including vacation pay and any gig work).

Additional exceptions from membership fees

  • Member receiving sickness or rehabilitation allowance paid by Kela, a pension institution or an insurance company,
  • Member involved in development cooperation or missionary work,
  • Member who is completing their mandatory conscription or civilian service, or voluntary military service,
  • Member receiving informal care support allowance who is not employed, or
  • Member working as a foster caregiver, who receives a fee agreed upon an assignment contract.

The SuPer membership fee is fully tax-deductible. SuPer reports the membership fees on behalf of the member to the tax authorities.

The maximum membership fee per year is 600 €.