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Board of Trustees, Meba Pension Trust-Money Purchase Benefit401(k)

MEBA 401(K) PLAN · BALTIMORE, MD · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.17%

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

Board of Trustees, Meba Pension Trust-Money Purchase Benefit reported $523,231 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.17% of average plan assets, higher than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $263 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 0.15% to 0.17%. The plan sits in the $250M–$1B size bracket, benchmarked here against 2,883 comparable plans and shown alongside other transportation & warehousing employers. By assets it is the 53rd-largest of 1,671 plans among Maryland employers on file, and the 106th of 2,677 in transportation & warehousing. In 2024, employees put in $28.56 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$330,804,363
Participants with balances1,932
Active participants1,904
Employer contributions$500,357
Employee contributions$14,291,133
Employer contribution per active participant$263
Average account balance$171,224
Benefits paid to participants$18,314,603
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$330.8M · 1,932 accts · $500K emplr
2023$276.3M · 1,873 accts · $254K emplr
2022$222.2M · 1,825 accts · $522K emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Investment management$159,559
Audit (IQPA)$14,010
Total administrative$523,231
The Board of Trustees, Meba Pension Trust-Money Purchase Benefit 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$263
Median for plans this size$4,294
2024$263 per active participant
2023$139 per active participant
2022$291 per active participant

Board of Trustees, Meba Pension Trust-Money Purchase Benefit's 2024 employer contribution ran below the $4,294 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 · 20248
MEBA MEDICAL AND BENEFITS PLAN · Recordkeeping$145,240
FIDELITY INVSMTS INST OPER CO LLC · Loan processing · Recordkeeping$83,052
NEPC LLC · Pension consulting$64,310
MORGAN LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP · Legal$53,369
M&T BANK · Trustee$17,394
WEAVER AND TIDWELL, L.L.P. · Accounting / audit$14,369
COMPUTER SERVICES UNLIMITED, INC. · Other services$8,686
BRIDGEWAY BENEFIT TECHNOLOGIES LLC · Other services$8,207

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

Recordkeeper by year2
2024Fidelity, MEBA MEDICAL AND BENEFITS PLAN
2023Fidelity, MEBA MEDICAL AND BENEFITS PLAN

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Administrative cost history3
2024$523,231 · 0.17%
2023$398,383 · 0.16%
2022$382,515 · 0.15%
All plans at this employer2
MEBA 401(K) PLAN401(k)
MEBA PENSION TRUST-MONEY PURCHASE BENEFIT PLANMoney purchase plan
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 516029896 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.