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Blue Water Thinking, LLC401(k)

BLUE WATER THINKING 401(K) PLAN · MCLEAN, VA · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.13%

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

Blue Water Thinking, LLC reported $5,253 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.13% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $3,341 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 professional & technical services employers. By assets it is among the smaller plans on file in Virginia (1,837th of 2,266), and 9,804th of 11,654 in professional & technical services. In 2024, employees put in $1.84 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$5,001,680
Participants with balances180
Active participants161
Employer contributions$537,874
Employee contributions$990,354
Employer contribution per active participant$3,341
Average account balance$27,787
Benefits paid to participants$149,892
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$2,164
Investment management$3,089
Total administrative$5,253
The Blue Water Thinking, LLC 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$3,341
Median for plans this size$1,313

Blue Water Thinking, LLC'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.

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Annual cost at the plan's reported 2024 administrative ratio, against the median plan its size; fund expense ratios are extra. Compare any plan.

Administrative cost history1
2024$5,253 · 0.13%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 825328039 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.