2026 PSA Conference and Membership Fee Information

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PSA aims to keep membership and conference participation affordable. However, the costs to keep PSA going and hold the annual conference are rising. The PSA Council made some adjustments to fees for this year which included an increase in fees at each membership level. Our fees are still tiered so that persons who are current students, Emerita/Emeritus/Retired Sociologists, or lower income faculty/other professionals pay lower fees while faculty/other professionals in higher income brackets pay higher fees. To help offset this, we are offering savings for early registration. 

Full annual PSA participation - This includes PSA 2026 conference registration and annual membership fees for 2025-2026 Academic Year (required for all persons presenting at the conference)

To join PSA today or to renew your membership for 2025-2026 Academic Year, please click here and register for PSA 2026.

PSA Annual Membership Only - For those who will not be attending PSA 2026 and would like to maintain PSA Membership (PSA membership is required to be eligible for appointment and/or election to committees and offices and to vote in the affairs and governance of the association and to receive awards.

To submit a membership form for those not attending PSA 2026, please click here. 

New Since 2024-2025 Academic Year:

• Council established the membership year to align with the academic year and our annual conference. The membership year begins the Monday immediately following the PSA Annual Conference and ends the Sunday of the subsequent conference. For example, the membership year for the current academic year started the Monday following PSA 2025 in San Francisco (March 31, 2025) and will end the Saturday of PSA 2026 in Long Beach (April 4, 2026).
• Guided by the PSA 2024 post-conference survey, we are again bundling the conference fee and the membership fee. By registering for PSA 2026, your PSA membership fee for the 2025-2026 academic year will also be covered. 
• A new membership level of annual income between $80,000 and $100,000 has been added.
• To encourage early registration and to align with other major sociological conferences, PSA 2026 will have an early registration rate through November 1, 2025, a regular registration rate from November 2, 2025 through February 1, 2026, and a late registration rate from February 2, 2026 through March 22, 2026. Onsite conference registration is available though $15 is added to the Late Registration rate for each respective membership level.

Frequently Asked Questions: 

1) When does the PSA participation year begin and end?  Fees are for participation for one academic year and the new academic year begins the Monday immediately following 

2) What are the benefits of paying the PSA registration and conference fee? Current paid PSA participants have electronic access (and a mailed copy for an add-on fee of $20) to the PSA journal, Sociological Perspectives (February, April, June, August, October, December), are emailed three electronic copies of the PSA newsletter, The Pacific Sociologist (approximately January, May, and September), are eligible for appointment and/or election to committees and offices and to vote in the affairs and governance of the association (including the annual fall ballot for leadership candidates), and to receive awards (various criteria) and student travel grants (students who are presenting at the annual conference).