Membership categories and fees

_{Non-Direct Debit annual membership fee given in brackets}

• Practising in the UK - £293.73 (£298.73)
   
• Practising less than 50 days per year in the UK - £164.98  (£167.77)
   
• Working within optometry in the UK but not in practice or seeing patients - £164.98  (£167.77)
   
• Newly-qualified optometrists - in first College membership year since qualifying (passed OSCE June 2021 onwards) - £29.37 (£29.87)
• Newly-qualified optometrists - in second College membership year since qualifying (passed OSCE July 2020-April 2021) - £73.43 (£74.68) 
• Newly-qualified optometrists - in third College membership year since qualifying (passed OSCE July 2019-April 2020)  - £146.87 (£149.37)
• Newly-qualified optometrists - in fourth College membership year since qualifying (passed OSCE July 2018-April 2019)  - £220.30 (£224.05)
   
• Not currently practising (for example, retired or on a career break) - £39.04 (£39.65)
   
• Optometry students undertaking a undergraduate degree course in optometry from a UK university approved by the GOC or enrolled pre-registration trainees - No fee


• Practising for 50 years or more * - No fee
  *Qualified and registered as an optometrist for 50 years or more, and remained in continuous membership of the College for the last 10 years.

Overseas members must be registered as a qualified optometrists with the GOC (UK) or the appropriate regulatory authority in the country in which they are practising AND be resident or practising overseas with an overseas address as their main address.  For new members we require proof of their current registration from the relevant authority and that they are currently practising as an optometrist from their employer. 

• Practising outside the UK - £167.77
   
• Practising less than 50 days per year outside the UK - £94.43
   
• Working within optometry outside the UK but not in practice or seeing pateints - £164.98
  
  Newly qualified rates apply to those qualifying in the UK
• Newly-qualified optometrists – in first College membership year since qualifying - £16.78
• Newly-qualified optometrists – in second College membership year since qualifying - £41.94
• Newly-qualified optometrists – in third College membership year since qualifying - £83.89
• Newly-qualified optometrists – in fourth College membershipyear since qualifying - £125.83
   
• Not currently practising (for example, retired or on a career break) - for exisitng College members only - £39.65


• Practising for 50 years or more - No fee