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Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association401(k)

AOPA EMPLOYEES' 401(K) RETIREMENT PLAN · FREDERICK, MD · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.01%

Peer grade: A · admin costs + employer contributions vs same-size plans · how grading works

Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association reported $6,265 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.01% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $6,807 per active participant. This ratio covers administrative expenses reported on the plan's Schedule H only; fund-level expense ratios are not included in public structured data — see methodology.

Across the 2 years on file its reported administrative ratio fell from 0.011% to 0.010%. The plan sits in the $50M–$250M size bracket, benchmarked here against 10,352 comparable plans and shown alongside other professional & technical services employers. By assets it is the 265th-largest of 1,671 plans among Maryland employers on file, and the 2,242nd of 11,654 in professional & technical services. In 2024, employees put in $1.51 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has shrunk from 224 to 191 since 2022.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$63,510,820
Participants with balances320
Active participants191
Employer contributions$1,300,181
Employee contributions$1,958,344
Employer contribution per active participant$6,807
Average account balance$198,471
Benefits paid to participants$5,843,732
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$63.5M · 320 accts · $1.3M emplr
2023$58.5M · 336 accts · $1.4M emplr
2022$49.9M · 332 accts · $1.6M emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$6,265
Total administrative$6,265
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$6,807
Median for plans this size$3,635
2024$6,807 per active participant
2023$6,400 per active participant
2022$7,084 per active participant

Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association's 2024 employer contribution ran above the $3,635 median for plans its size, placing it in the top quarter of its peers. Filings report dollars actually contributed, not the match formula; the formula itself (for example, 50% of the first 6% of pay) lives in the plan's summary plan description from HR.

What these fees cost you

Annual cost at the plan's reported 2024 administrative ratio, against the median plan its size; fund expense ratios are extra. Compare any plan.

Service providers · 20241
STANCORP FINANCIAL GROUP · Claims processing · Recordkeeping$6,265

Compensation shown is direct payments from plan assets reported on Schedule C. Providers paid through fund revenue-sharing appear as indirect.

Recordkeeper by year2
2024The Standard
2023The Standard

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Administrative cost history3
2024$6,265 · 0.01%
2023$4,620 · 0.01%
2022$6,138 · 0.01%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 520636210 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.