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Alex Lee, Inc.401(k)

ALEX LEE, INC. AND AFFILIATES RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN · HICKORY, NC · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.24%

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

Alex Lee, Inc. reported $750,573 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.24% of average plan assets, higher than ~90% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $245 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 3 years on file its reported administrative ratio has held roughly steady near 0.24%. The plan sits in the $250M–$1B size bracket, benchmarked here against 2,883 comparable plans and shown alongside other wholesale trade employers. By assets it is the 86th-largest of 2,005 plans among North Carolina employers on file, and the 150th of 4,246 in wholesale trade. In 2024, employees put in $9.99 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$323,149,956
Participants with balances10,322
Active participants10,743
Employer contributions$2,631,206
Employee contributions$26,273,640
Employer contribution per active participant$245
Average account balance$31,307
Benefits paid to participants$33,713,257
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
AuditorRSM US LLP
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$323.1M · 10,322 accts · $2.6M emplr
2023$294.7M · 10,004 accts · $2.5M emplr
2022$256.0M · 9,866 accts · $2.5M emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$562,846
Total administrative$750,573
The Alex Lee, Inc. 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$245
Median for plans this size$4,294
2024$245 per active participant
2023$231 per active participant
2022$243 per active participant

Alex Lee, Inc.'s 2024 employer contribution ran below the $4,294 median for plans its size, in the bottom 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 · 20243
T ROWE PRICE RPS INC · Recordkeeping · Trustee$562,846
AON · Consulting$187,724
CHARLES SCHWAB & CO., INC. · Securities brokerage$1,915

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

Recordkeeper by year2
2024T. Rowe Price
2023T. Rowe Price

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Administrative cost history3
2024$750,573 · 0.24%
2023$811,994 · 0.29%
2022$644,487 · 0.23%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 561780605 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.