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Badger Color Concentrates, Inc.401(k)

BADGER COLOR CONCENTRATES 401(K) PLAN & TRUST · MUKWONAGO, WI · plan year 2023

Reported admin expense ratio · 2023
0.13%

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

Badger Color Concentrates, Inc. reported $6,366 in plan administrative expenses for 2023: 0.13% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $1,224 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 1 year on file its reported administrative ratio fell from 0.17% to 0.13%. The plan sits in the $1M–$10M size bracket, benchmarked here against 22,307 comparable plans and shown alongside other manufacturing employers. By assets it is among the smaller plans on file in Wisconsin (1,611th of 1,936), and 11,108th of 13,661 in manufacturing. In 2023, employees put in $1.67 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$5,188,920
Participants with balances152
Active participants189
Employer contributions$231,320
Employee contributions$387,390
Employer contribution per active participant$1,224
Average account balance$34,138
Benefits paid to participants$499,072
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history2
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2023$5.2M · 152 accts · $231K emplr
2022$4.4M · 134 accts · $236K emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2023
Recordkeeping & contract admin$6,366
Total administrative$6,366
The Badger Color Concentrates, Inc. 401(k) match · 2023
Employer contribution per active participant$1,224
Median for plans this size$1,308
2023$1,224 per active participant
2022$1,297 per active participant

Badger Color Concentrates, Inc.'s 2023 employer contribution ran below the $1,308 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.

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Annual cost at the plan's reported 2023 administrative ratio, against the median plan its size; fund expense ratios are extra. Compare any plan.

Service providers · 20231
FIRST AMERICAN BANK · Recordkeeping · Custodial$6,366

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

Administrative cost history2
2023$6,366 · 0.13%
2022$8,107 · 0.17%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 391942715 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.