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Balise Motor Sales Company401(k)

BALISE MOTOR SALES COMPANY 401(K) RETIREMENT PLAN · WEST SPRINGFIELD, MA · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.11%

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

Balise Motor Sales Company reported $46,811 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.11% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $505 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 0.10% to 0.11%. The plan sits in the $10M–$50M size bracket, benchmarked here against 27,838 comparable plans and shown alongside other retail trade employers. By assets it is the 753rd-largest of 2,726 plans among Massachusetts employers on file, and the 708th of 5,215 in retail trade. In 2024, employees put in $6.04 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has grown from 1,072 to 1,246 since 2022.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$44,928,874
Participants with balances701
Active participants1,246
Employer contributions$629,066
Employee contributions$3,800,002
Employer contribution per active participant$505
Average account balance$64,093
Benefits paid to participants$3,175,490
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$44.9M · 701 accts · $629K emplr
2023$38.3M · 644 accts · $617K emplr
2022$31.8M · 605 accts · $625K emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$41,033
Trustee / custodial$5,778
Total administrative$46,811
The Balise Motor Sales Company 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$505
Median for plans this size$2,416
2024$505 per active participant
2023$531 per active participant
2022$583 per active participant

Balise Motor Sales Company's 2024 employer contribution ran below the $2,416 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 · 20242
SENTINEL BENEFITS GROUP, INC. · Recordkeeping · Loan processing$41,033
RELIANCE TRUST · Trustee$5,778

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

Recordkeeper by year2
2024Sentinel Group
2023Sentinel Group

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Administrative cost history3
2024$46,811 · 0.11%
2023$34,295 · 0.10%
2022$35,083 · 0.10%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 550811490 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.