DXCC Awards fees

From ARRL:

New DXCC awards fee schedule becomes effective July 1

(May 23, 2006) -- The ARRL DXCC Desk has announced DXCC program
fees will rise slightly when a new awards fee schedule goes into effect July 1.
The fee for a basic DXCC application (including certificate and pin for initial
applications only, 120 QSO maximum) and for first endorsement applications
within a year will increase to $12 for ARRL members and to $22 for foreign
nonmembers. Second and subsequent endorsements (120 QSO maximum)
within a year will be $22 for ARRL members and $32 for foreign nonmembers.

The $10 fee for a basic DXCC application (120-credit maximum) was
established in 1990, and the current overall fee schedule has been in
effect since 1998. "It costs us to provide this service," explains ARRL
Membership Services Manager Wayne Mills, N7NG. "We don't make
any money from DXCC." The cost of other DXCC-related items such as
plaques and pins also will go up July 1. Mills advised that DXCC fees will
increase further in the years ahead--possibly at two-year intervals--at
least to catch up with the Consumer Price Index, which has risen 49
percent since 1990. He estimates the active population of DXCC
members at between 15,000 and 18,000.