It is.

I first paid and used for their service back in 2010. I wasn’t successful in getting a job so I stopped paying the annual fee. Fast forward to 2014, when things started moving again, I logged back in, paid the fee, and all of my information was still in my account. I had to do very little work to get my app published again.

Pay the fee. Look at it as in investment in a potential multi-million filler career.