Black Pearl Educational Services, LLC401(k)
BLACK PEARL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES, LLC 401(K) PLAN · BYRON CENTER, MI · plan year 2025
Peer grade: C+ · admin costs + employer contributions vs same-size plans · how grading works
Black Pearl Educational Services, LLC reported $79,342 in plan administrative expenses for 2025: 0.52% of average plan assets, higher than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $4,043 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 fell from 0.62% to 0.52%. The plan sits in the $10M–$50M size bracket, benchmarked here against 1,620 comparable plans and shown alongside other educational services employers. By assets it is the 1,193rd-largest of 2,619 plans among Michigan employers on file, and 1,755th of 3,091 in educational services. In 2025, the employer put in $1.23 for every $1.00 employees contributed themselves; active participation has grown from 133 to 147 since 2022.
Black Pearl Educational Services, LLC's 2025 employer contribution ran above the $2,666 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.
Annual cost at the plan's reported 2025 administrative ratio, against the median plan its size; fund expense ratios are extra. Compare any plan.
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 814286951 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.