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Avara Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.401(k)

AVARA RETIREMENT AND SAVINGS PLAN · NORMAN, OK · plan year 2021

Reported admin expense ratio · 2021
0.46%

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

Avara Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. reported $138,113 in plan administrative expenses for 2021: 0.46% of average plan assets, higher than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $3,168 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 rose from 0.07% to 0.32%. The plan sits in the $10M–$50M size bracket, benchmarked here against 109 comparable plans and shown alongside other manufacturing employers. By assets it is the 167th-largest of 724 plans among Oklahoma employers on file, and the 4,232nd of 13,661 in manufacturing. In 2021, employees put in $1.97 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$32,505,754
Participants with balances418
Active participants310
Employer contributions$982,139
Employee contributions$1,939,345
Employer contribution per active participant$3,168
Average account balance$77,765
Benefits paid to participants$2,389,531
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
AuditorFORVIS MAZARS, LLC
Plan history4
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2023$25.1M · 325 accts · $507K emplr
2022$25.6M · 377 accts · $745K emplr
2021$32.5M · 418 accts · $982K emplr
2020$28.4M · 433 accts · $1.4M emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2021
Recordkeeping & contract admin$1,134
Audit (IQPA)$136,979
Total administrative$138,113
The Avara Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. 401(k) match · 2021
Employer contribution per active participant$3,168
Median for plans this size$2,122
2023$2,728 per active participant
2022$3,372 per active participant
2021$3,168 per active participant
2020$4,331 per active participant

Avara Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.'s 2021 employer contribution ran above the $2,122 median for plans its size. 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 2021 administrative ratio, against the median plan its size; fund expense ratios are extra. Compare any plan.

Administrative cost history4
2023$80,314 · 0.32%
2022$103,480 · 0.36%
2021$138,113 · 0.46%
2020$16,751 · 0.07%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 473599330 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.