How much do member companies pay to join ETI?

Company membership fees are calculated on a sliding scale based on the size and annual turnover of the business, and typically range between £10,000 and £50,000 per year. This ensures that membership is proportionate — larger companies with greater resources and more complex supply chains pay more, while smaller companies can access ETI's expertise and community at a lower entry point.

What does the membership fee actually buy?

Member companies receive ongoing support from ETI's expert staff in developing and implementing their human rights due diligence approach. They gain access to ETI's programmes — practical, collaborative initiatives tackling the supply chain issues that are hardest to address alone, from forced labour and living wages to gender equality and responsible purchasing. They join a peer community of leading companies navigating the same challenges, with structured opportunities to share experience, develop common approaches, and learn from what others have found to work. And they benefit from ETI's relationships with trade unions and NGOs — bringing ground-level intelligence and worker perspectives that are genuinely unavailable elsewhere.

How does the cost compare?

One useful frame for evaluating ETI membership fees is to compare them with the alternatives. A single engagement with a legal firm or management consultancy to assess a company's human rights due diligence exposure will frequently cost more than an entire year of ETI membership — and will produce a report rather than lasting capability. ETI membership, by contrast, builds institutional knowledge and documented track record over time: exactly what regulators, investors and civil society are increasingly looking for, and exactly what a one-off consultancy engagement cannot deliver.

For companies facing growing legislative pressure — from CSDDD, from Modern Slavery Act reforms, from investor expectations — ETI membership is not a cost to be weighed against doing nothing. It is an investment in the operational capability that meaningful compliance actually requires.

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