Membership Fees

Tehy membership fee is 1,1% of the gross income of those members who are in employment but not more than 600 euro per annum. However, the subscription shall not be less than 8 euros per month. If you are a member of Tehy, the membership fee will also include the membership fee of the unemployment fund.

If you are a working member, your membership fee is 1.1% of your taxable salary income. It includes the membership fee for the Unemployment Fund for Health and Social Care Professionals if you have selected to be a member of the unemployment fund. So, we will pay your unemployment fund membership fee for you. The fee is €8 per month at the least and €600 per year at the most.

Tehy members who work abroad with a Finnish employer will pay 1,1 % of the gross earning. Others will pay a membership fee of 30 euros.

Remember to inform Tehy if there are changes in your membership status i.e. if you finish your studies, become unemployed, go on maternity leave etc. Tehy will not receive automatically this information.

Unemployment benefit

When joining us, you can also choose whether to become a member of the Unemployment Fund of Social and Healthcare workers. The fund membership secures your livelihood if you become unemployed or furloughed. We pay the unemployment fund’s member fee for you!

Membership fee calculator

The subscription is tax deductible (verovähennyskelpoinen)

Tehy will inform the taxation authorities of the paid membership fees. Check your tax return to make sure that these have been taken into account. After tax, the actual rate of membership fee is around 0,6 - 0,8 %. You can check your taxation with the Tax rate calculator.

family leave (maternity, paternity, pregnancy, parental and care leave)
national conscription or civilian service
job alternation leave
leave of absence
unemployment (you must be registered with the TE Services)
furlough
rehabilitation allowance
sick leave
acting as an informal carer, if unpaid
full-time studies for a continued or supplementary degree (e.g. Master’s degree from a university of applied sciences). Start and end dates of the studies, the educational institution and the degree must be reported to the member register as soon as the studies start. You can do this through our e-services.

You will not be exempted from the membership fee for a period during which your employer pays you a wage.

You will pay your normal membership fee for any wage income received during the payment exemption period.

If an employer pays their employee on leave a wage and a holiday pay or bonus during their leave, a membership fee must be paid of these wages. If you have permitted your employer to collect the membership fee from your pay, the payroll accountant will automatically deduct the sum also from these wages.

This is the most convenient way of paying the membership fee. The easiest way is to use the online application form and let Tehy to contact your employer on your membership dues. Use the "Employer will deduct from wages" option.

The other way is to give your employer the top copy of the membership application form (page A1) which shows that you have joined the union. This document gives your employer the authorisation to deduct your membership fee on behalf of the union.

Check your payslip to make sure that your employer has started to collect the dues. Please note that if you have several employers you have to authorize all the employers to deduct the fee.

You can also pay the subscription yourself if, for example, your employer will not deduct it from your salary or you are on a longer leave. In order to pay the fee yourself, you need to have a special reference number which you receive from Tehy and you need to calculate the amount of the membership fee yourself.

Membership Fees

Membership Fees

Unemployment benefit

The subscription is tax deductible (verovähennyskelpoinen)

Unpaid periods entitling you to an exemption from the membership fee

Authorising the employer to deduct the membership fee (suoraperintä)

Paying the subscription yourself