BJ’s Membership Fee Rose From $55 to $60 in 2025, Its First Increase in 7 Years, and Nutmeggers Are Still Paying It
BJ’s had 13 clubs in Connecticut at the start of 2026.
If you upgraded to Club+, your fee went up too, but you got two free same-day deliveries a year.
Here’s how BJ’s membership fee rose from $55 to $60, and what Nutmeggers are paying now.
Club and Club+ Increases
BJ’s announced on Nov. 21, 2024 that its Club membership would rise $5 to $60, starting Jan. 1, 2025.
Club+, the higher tier, rose $10 to $120 a year on the same date.
BJ’s called it the first membership fee increase in seven years.
Before that, you paid $55 a year for Club and $110 for Club+, according to BJ’s annual report.
Both increases work out to 9.1%, since $5 is 9.1% of $55 and $10 is 9.1% of $110.
That gave you about six weeks between the announcement and the new fee.
Over seven years, a Club card at the old rate costs you $385, while the new rate costs you $420.
That’s $35 more.
What Club+ Gained
BJ’s paired the Club+ increase with two free same-day deliveries during each annual membership period, on eligible orders of $50 or more.
That benefit covers Club+ members who hold a BJ’s One+ Mastercard, too.
The company said the increase lets it invest in more value for members.
If you’re a Club member, you pay a same-day delivery fee that starts at $9.99.
That fee can change with location, order size, item value and delivery time.
At that starting fee, two free deliveries add up to $19.98, about twice the $10 increase.
Delivery isn’t for everyone.
Club+ Rewards and Gas
BJ’s Club+ earns 2% back in rewards on eligible purchases, up to $500 a membership year.
At BJ’s Gas, your Club+ card takes an additional 5 cents off a gallon at every fill-up.
BJ’s Membership Fee Math for Club and Club+
BJ’s membership fee works out to $5 a month for Club at $60 a year and $10 a month for Club+ at $120.
The 2025 increase added about 42 cents a month to Club and 83 cents to Club+.
BJ’s Club+ costs $60 a year more than Club, up from a $55 gap before the increase.
At 2% back in rewards, $3,000 of eligible purchases a year, or $250 a month, earns $60, the same as that gap.
Before the increase, the $55 gap took $2,750 of eligible purchases to cover.
The $500 rewards cap takes $25,000 of eligible purchases to reach, or about $2,083 a month.
Fee History
BJ’s annual report for the year ended Feb. 2, 2019 lists $55 as the fee you’d pay for a primary Inner Circle membership and $110 for Perks Rewards.
The report for the year ended Jan. 28, 2023 calls the higher tier Club+, formerly Perks Rewards, at $110 a year.
The 2019 and 2023 annual reports list the same $55 and $110 prices.
That changed in 2025.
Members After the Increase
BJ’s had a 7.5 million member base when it announced the increase.
The member count reached a record 8.5 million in the quarter that ended Aug. 1, 2026.
That’s a million more.
Membership fee income from cards like yours was $135.6 million that quarter, up 9.9% from $123.3 million a year earlier.
BJ’s annual report for fiscal 2025 cites over 25 consecutive years of membership fee income growth.
The growth came mainly from new members, retention and more members choosing a higher tier, BJ’s says.
Costco Fee Gaps
Costco moved first.
BJ’s followed about four months later.
Costco announced on July 10, 2024 that its Gold Star fee would rise $5 on Sept. 1, 2024, and its Executive fee would rise from $120 to $130.
That put Costco’s Gold Star fee at $65.
Your BJ’s Club card costs $5 less than a Costco Gold Star card, and Club+ costs $10 less than Costco’s Executive tier.
Costco’s $5 and $10 increases were 8.3% of $60 and $120, a bit under BJ’s 9.1%.
Those are the same two gaps as before either company raised prices.
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Connecticut Clubs
BJ's had 13 clubs in Connecticut as of Jan. 31, 2026, out of 263 clubs across 21 states.
The club table in that report ranks Connecticut seventh among BJ's 21 states, behind six others.
Virginia, just ahead, had 14 clubs, and Maryland, just behind, had 12.
The report for the year ended Jan. 28, 2023 listed 13 Connecticut clubs too.
Whichever club you shop at, the Club fee is generally $60 and the Club+ fee is generally $120.
Many Connecticut members are still paying the new rate.
Auto-Renewal and Add-Ons
BJ's memberships are set to auto-renew each year, and you can turn that off in your account settings.
A membership generally lasts 12 months.
If you cancel, BJ's lets primary members request a refund for the current membership period.
BJ's can't refund a second or subsequent cancellation.
Your membership covers one additional household member at no extra cost.
BJ's lets you add up to three more memberships for $35 each.
Business members may buy up to eight.
The Same-Day Select pass is a separate $100 annual fee for unlimited same-day deliveries, compared with the standard $9.99 delivery fee.
At $9.99 a delivery, $100 buys about ten deliveries.
