Member Benefits

By becoming a member of the Mass. High Tech Council, you will increase your company’s profitability and profile by:

• Increasing your competitiveness and talent pipeline through support of the Council’s public policy agenda and opportunities to help shape it by participating on policy teams. For nearly 35 years, the Council has played a pivotal and unique role in achieving significant, bottom-line results on public policy issues most important to members’ continued success in Massachusetts. These include reducing taxes and energy costs, and strengthening the state’s talent pool through investments in STEM. For an overview of the Council’s public policy accomplishments click here.

• Developing new business opportunities through programs and partnerships like the Defense Technology Initiative and the Advanced Cyber Research Center (Mass Insight/MITRE). Through these initiatives the Council sponsors focused action-oriented efforts to inform and advance your company’s operations.

• Saving money through economies of scale programs. By joining the Council, you can increase your organization’s profitability through access to our members-only workers' compensation Self-Insurance Group (SIG).
  
  The SIG is the most successful program of its kind in the state and has resulted in workers’ compensation premium savings and safer facilities for participating members.  Since 1994, more than $5 million in dividends have been received by SIG members with another $2 million to be returned. Learn more

• Building connections, knowledge, impact and visibility. Members benefit from cutting-edge data and trend analysis provided by the Council and its partners, access to key policy leaders from across sectors, and opportunities that facilitate civic engagement and member visibility.