Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences403(b)
BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES RETIREMENT PLAN · EAST BOOTHBAY, ME · plan year 2024
Peer grade: A- · admin costs + employer contributions vs same-size plans · how grading works
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences reported $69,124 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.24% of average plan assets, below the peer median. Employer contributions averaged $5,000 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 0.19% to 0.24%. The plan sits in the $10M–$50M size bracket, benchmarked here against 27,838 comparable plans and shown alongside other professional & technical services employers. By assets it is the 103rd-largest of 354 plans among Maine employers on file, and the 4,076th of 11,654 in professional & technical services. In 2024, employees put in $1.55 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences'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.
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Compensation shown is direct payments from plan assets reported on Schedule C. Providers paid through fund revenue-sharing appear as indirect.
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 016006001 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.