Join APLD ~ Categories of Membership & Dues Structure
Certified - requires a judicial process that looks at a designer's work as well as references. You must first join as an Associate member.
Dues: $190 plus $75 one time non-refundable filing fee or $85 for return of submittal package
Emeritus - Permanently certified members who have reached the age of 70 and are still working in some capacity as a landscape designer.
Dues: $100
Associate - standard level of membership. Information on certification is included with member packet
Dues: $200
Educator - A professional landscape design educator or teacher who is not a practicing Landscape Designer.
Dues: $125
Student - This individual must be actively enrolled in a landscape design, landscape architecture, or horticulture program that requires at least 37 credit hours or 600 contact hours of design and horticulture related coursework to graduate. (A contact hour is a unit of measure that represents one hour of scheduled instruction given to students.) A student member may not be practicing landscape design for free or in a fee-generating capacity unless it is part of a student internship related to their design program.
Dues: $50 (with photocopy of student ID)
Allied - companies or individuals that provide services and/or products that are resources for the landscape design profession
Dues: $300
Chapter Dues, if applicable: (Must be an APLD® member)
- Arizona State Chapter $40
- California State Chapter $40 | REQUIRED
- California Student $20 | REQUIRED
- DC-MD-VA Chapter $40
- DC-MD-VA Student $20
- Georgia-Carolinas Chapter $30
- Inter-Mountain Regional Chapter $40
- Midwest Regional Chapter $20
- Minnesota State Chapter $20
- Minnesota Student $10
- New Jersey State Chapter $40
- New Jersey State Student $20
- New England Regional Chapter $30 | REQUIRED
- New England Regional Student $20 | REQUIRED
- Oklahoma State Chapter $30
- Oklahoma State Student $20
- Oregon State Chapter $30
- Oregon Student Dues $20
- PA-DE Regional Chapter $40
- PA-DE Regional Student $20
- Southwest Regional Student $20
- Southwest Regional Chapter $40
- Washington State Chapter $45
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