Membership Types, Criteria, & Dues
AGA members form a diverse group of individuals—from students to entry-level employees to senior executives and elected officials—working for local and state governments, school districts and retirement systems, colleges and universities, federal agencies and public accounting firms.
Whatever your role in government financial management, AGA offers a membership package tailored to meet your professional needs and interests.
As a reminder, AGA has several categories of membership
that are listed below. We are seeing some discrepancies throughout the AGA
network and need everyone to make sure that any material that you produce
matches the official definitions.
Here are the official definitions as listed on the
AGA membership application. We have also included some additional
information for clarification purposes:
AGA Member Types
| Full Government Member |
This class of membership is available to
individuals currently working in government with three or more
years of experience. This class is also available to individuals
with similar experience who currently work for
colleges/universities and not for profit organizations.
$90/year
|
| Private Sector Member |
This class of membership is available to
individuals working for private companies, corporations,
partnerships and sole proprietors. $150/year
|
| Early Career Member |
This class of membership is available to individuals with less
than three years of experience. $45/year |
| Student Member |
This class of membership is available to
full-time college/university students that are not gainfully
employed. $30/year |
| Retired |
This class of membership is available to
individuals who have permanently retired.
$30/year
|
| Government Group Membership |
For government groups of five or more individuals,
click here for information on AGA's NEW government group
membership called ADVANTAGE
|
| Lifetime Member |
Lifetime membership is bestowed upon individuals that have been
AGA members for forty years to recognize their distinguished
service to the Association. Lifetime memberships are awarded
each January. Lifetime members no longer pay annual dues. |
1.
Student members cannot be
gainfully employed to receive this membership type --
please see the AGA listing below.
If a student is gainfully employed for less than three years, then
they should be listed as Early Career.
2.
Early career is for those members
who work in private or public
sector jobs with less than three years of
any experience –
this means that someone who worked in private sector for three years and
moved to government sector is considered Full Government, and someone you
worked in public sector for three years and moved to private sector would
then be considered Private Sector.
3.
Full Member – Government is for
those members employed (their
payroll check is issued by a government agency or a not for profit) by a
government agency and have three or more years of work experience.
If someone is working for a private entity as a contractor for a
government agency, even if their office is in a government agency building,
they are not considered Full Government, but Private Sector.
4.
Full Member – Private is for
those members who are employed by a private entity (their payroll check is
issued by a private entity) regardless of where their work is located or
what project they are working on.
5.
Retired – Individuals who are not gainfully employed, and have permanently
retired (including not preparing tax returns for additional income).
If you need further assistance, please contact
agamembers@agacgfm.org or 703.684.6931, ext. 306.