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Bearing Tree, Inc.401(k)

BEARING TREE, INC. 401(K) PLAN · CHICAGO, IL · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.04%

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

Bearing Tree, Inc. reported $2,150 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.04% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $2,339 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.

The plan sits in the $1M–$10M size bracket, benchmarked here against 18,840 comparable plans and shown alongside other administrative & support services employers. By assets it is among the smaller plans on file in Illinois (2,750th of 3,702), and the 1,246th of 2,534 in administrative & support services. In 2024, employees put in $2.23 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$6,765,962
Participants with balances138
Active participants190
Employer contributions$444,427
Employee contributions$991,246
Employer contribution per active participant$2,339
Average account balance$49,029
Benefits paid to participants$483,822
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$2,000
Total administrative$2,150
The Bearing Tree, Inc. 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$2,339
Median for plans this size$1,313

Bearing Tree, Inc.'s 2024 employer contribution ran above the $1,313 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.

Service providers · 20242
HESSEL & ASSOCIATES, LLC · Contract administratorindirect comp
MORNINGSTAR · Investment advisory (plan)indirect comp

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

Administrative cost history1
2024$2,150 · 0.04%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 832543436 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.