Any SFWA members here?

No, SFWA is not geared more toward SF. The main benefits I see are Griefcom (which arbitrates between individual authors and publishers), the Nebulas (as an active member, you can nominate and vote), and SFWA acting in those cases where it's not just a publisher and one author, but a larger problem (for example, when Nightshade was falling to pieces.)

This^^^ I'm a member and have been for years. There's also the super work that Writer Beware does, and the Hasbro task force that I participated in several years ago, where the committee looked into the allegations of non payment of royalties to a large number of authors.

I've looked into it before, but honestly I think the SoA is the best investment for a British author, as it holds events across the UK and vets UK contracts as a specialisation (as well as contracts from across the world, of course). SCBWI British Isles also has a fairly strong presence in most of Britain for children's writers and illustrators, but sadly they don't have a Northern Scotland network so they're of very little use to me.

(I did offer to join and help create one, but at the time I'd have been the only author in that region, and they needed a bigger group to justify creating a new network. I'm still keeping an eye on things in the hope things will change in the future.)

I'm lucky that there's a strong Writing Development scheme, Emergents, in my neck of the woods, using art grants and government funding to provide professional beta reading, free workshops and panels, and various other opportunities for new writers. I haven't seen much like this elsewhere, though Brighton has a very strong programme of mixed for-profit and non-profit schemes in their The Writer's Place building.

I'm not a member of SFWA, but they have started publishing a monthly Market Report. Here is January's.

I believe one of the big benefits for American writers in SFWA was medical insurance, since the US didn't/doesn't have a universal health care system (although that's gotten better in recent years; thanks, Obama!)

If/when I qualify, I really don't know if I'll join. Writers Beware is awesome, and I can see the value in having a representative of many authors helping you resolve a dispute with a publisher or market, but the SFWA has been having issues with sexism literally for decades, and I wouldn't need their medical insurance anyway...

The annual membership fee just went up. I admit I spent some time wondering if I wanted to renew my membership, but in the end, I decided I would. I don't need the help with medical benefits, but I have used Griefcom to deal with a wonky small press, and I want to support Writer Beware. This is just me, obviously. YMMV.

Not to zombify a thread, but I'm curious about people's recent experiences. I haven't joined for various reasons, but I'm wondering if anyone sees any networking benefit to it at all.

(The legal advice might be enough of an enticement - I always figured I didn't need it because my family is swimming in lawyers, but I've since discovered contracts in the publishing world are weird and arcane, and I can imagine a time when advice from a lawyer with specific experience might be helpful.)

I'm curious too. I was a member, but let my membership lapse. A lot of what I write is YA, and despite the Norton Award YA always felt like a second-class citizen there. Maybe that's changed since I dropped out--it's been a few years. Oh, and yeah to the sexism issues...