One of the many things that I love about my job is how easy it is to show you exactly how well your Association is doing year after year with our annual Member Benefits Report.

Bankers took advantage of more education last year, including a 5% increase in the number of bankers who attended IBA’s Annual Convention and an 8% increase in D.C. Trip attendees. A huge thank-you to all the supervisors who invested in their bankers, to the IBA professional staff and volunteers who made those events happen, and to all our members for your continued support and engagement. Special recognition goes to our associate members for supporting our events and other programming at such a generous level that we have been able to hold IBA’s dues structure to be one of the lowest of any state bankers association in the nation. Similar thanks also go to the entire IBA professional staff whose hard work drove an increase in nearly every area of non-dues revenue.

The charts below show how the IBA continues to spend relatively little on office management and administration, instead spending the bulk of our investments on member benefits from education and events to communications and government relations. You can find a more detailed breakdown of what the Association provided in the full 2024 report, laid out on pages 8-9 of this issue. We’ll also have printed copies available at many of our in-person events throughout the rest of the year, including our Regional Meetings this fall.