{"id":1297,"date":"2024-08-22T15:54:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T20:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2024-08-22T15:54:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T20:54:58","slug":"do-we-lose-toastmasters-members-when-dues-go-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/22\/do-we-lose-toastmasters-members-when-dues-go-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Do we lose Toastmasters members when dues go up?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The answer is a resounding NO.  For the fourth consecutive dues increase, membership payments did NOT decrease.  Pathways leveled off membership numbers, but Covid had by far the largest impact, reducing payments by 25.8% in four years (from 2018-19 to 2022-23).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2005-06 ($18 -> $27, 50%), 1.06% membership increase<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2011-12 ($27 -> $36, 33%), 3.34% membership increase<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2016-17 ($36 -> $45, 25%), 1.90% membership increase<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023-24 ($45 -> $60, 33%), 1.41% membership increase<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier dues increases were 1981-82 ($3 -> $12) and 1992-93 ($12 -> $18), but I cannot find any membership payment data from those years.  Imagine what people were saying in 1981 when dues quadrupled!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even at $60\/six months (plus club dues), Toastmasters is a great value!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/455658493_10163837238003626_5918603389934199345_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"656\" height=\"488\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/455658493_10163837238003626_5918603389934199345_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/455658493_10163837238003626_5918603389934199345_n.jpg 656w, https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/455658493_10163837238003626_5918603389934199345_n-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The answer is a resounding NO. For the fourth consecutive dues increase, membership payments did NOT decrease. Pathways leveled off membership numbers, but Covid had by far the largest impact, reducing payments by 25.8% in four years (from 2018-19 to 2022-23). Earlier dues increases were 1981-82 ($3 -> $12) and 1992-93 ($12 -> $18), but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous-toastmasters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}