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Alliance Member Services, Inc.401(k)

ALLIANCE MEMBER SERVICES, INC. 401(K) RETIREMENT PLAN · SANTA CRUZ, CA · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.02%

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

Alliance Member Services, Inc. reported $7,675 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.02% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $6,603 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 rose from 0.017% to 0.025%. The plan sits in the $10M–$50M size bracket, benchmarked here against 27,838 comparable plans and shown alongside other finance & insurance employers. By assets it is the 2,470th-largest of 9,483 plans among California employers on file, and the 2,246th of 4,798 in finance & insurance. In 2024, employees put in $1.50 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has shrunk from 165 to 137 since 2022.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$33,515,705
Participants with balances243
Active participants137
Employer contributions$904,636
Employee contributions$1,360,298
Employer contribution per active participant$6,603
Average account balance$137,925
Benefits paid to participants$2,306,214
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$33.5M · 243 accts · $905K emplr
2023$28.9M · 259 accts · $803K emplr
2022$22.8M · 216 accts · $1.0M emplr
The Alliance Member Services, Inc. 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$6,603
Median for plans this size$2,416
2024$6,603 per active participant
2023$4,898 per active participant
2022$6,203 per active participant

Alliance Member Services, Inc.'s 2024 employer contribution ran above the $2,416 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.

Administrative cost history3
2024$7,675 · 0.02%
2023$8,433 · 0.03%
2022$4,310 · 0.02%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 061555318 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.