LinkedIn Premium pricing: Career vs Business, real costs

Premium Career is $39.99 a month or $239.88 for a year prepaid — an effective $19.99 a month. Premium Business is $69.99 a month or $575.88 a year, an effective $47.99. Both are US list prices excluding tax, and both include the full LinkedIn Learning library. Last checked against LinkedIn’s own pricing on 10 September 2026.

Premium Career on an annual prepay, at $239.88 for twelve months — $19.99 a month effective, which is half the monthly rate and the cheapest legitimate access to a Premium badge, InMail credits and Learning. If you cannot commit to a year, the monthly plan at $39.99 is the only other route LinkedIn offers, and it costs $479.88 over the same twelve months.

Business costs $30 more a month and gives you 15 InMail credits instead of 5, unlimited people browsing instead of a capped allowance, 365 days of profile-viewer history instead of 90, and company-page insights. Career keeps the job-seeker tools: applicant insights and where you rank against other candidates.

Three legitimate routes, and no coupon codes — LinkedIn runs no public discount programme. A free trial where LinkedIn offers one — it does not commit to a length, it decides eligibility per account, and it wants a card on file. Prepaying a year halves the effective monthly price on Premium Career. And many public library systems provide LinkedIn Learning free with a library card, which covers the course library without the subscription, though not the badge, the InMails or the profile viewers.

It is worth it if the commercial use limit is stopping your searches, if you need InMail to reach people outside your network, or if you are job hunting and want applicant insights. It is not worth it for the badge alone, and it does not raise the weekly connection request ceiling — no paid tier does.

5 a month on Career and 15 on Business. Unused credits roll over up to three times your monthly allowance and expire after 90 days; a reply within 90 days returns the credit. The full allowance table across every LinkedIn tier is on our LinkedIn limits page.

Prepaying the year. Premium Business is $69.99 a month, or $575.88 for twelve months prepaid — $47.99 effective, against $839.88 if you pay month by month for the same year. The trade is that LinkedIn does not pro-rate a cancelled annual term, so the saving is real only if you were always going to keep the seat for twelve months.

Yes, they are separate subscriptions on one profile, and LinkedIn bills them separately: Premium Career at $39.99 and Sales Navigator Core at $119.99 is $159.98 a month together. There is no combined discount. Before buying both, check whether Sales Navigator alone covers you — its search and InMail allowance is the larger of the two, and the overlap is most of what Premium adds.

On the monthly plan, yes — it ends at the close of the current billing month with no partial refund. Annual plans run the full twelve months and are not pro-rated, which is the trade for the lower effective rate.

Premium Career went up from $29.99 to $39.99 a month through 2025–2026, rolled out per cohort rather than on one announced date, so an existing subscriber can still be billed the older rate. The current list prices are Career $39.99 and Business $69.99 a month, last checked on 10 September 2026. Every recorded change is on the LinkedIn price change record.

LinkedIn sets a separate Premium price for each market rather than converting the US one, and adds tax on top: 20% VAT in the United Kingdom, 18% GST in India and 10% GST in Australia, per LinkedIn’s own tax table as read on 18 September 2026. This site does not print local-currency prices, because it cannot read a purchase flow in another market. The US list price — Career $39.99 and Business $69.99 a month, checked 10 September 2026 — is the baseline; your own figure is on LinkedIn’s payment screen before you confirm.