Bowles Rice LLP401(k)
BOWLES RICE 401(K) PROFIT SHARING PLAN · CHARLESTON, WV · plan year 2024
Peer grade: B · admin costs + employer contributions vs same-size plans · how grading works
Bowles Rice LLP reported $364,043 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.52% of average plan assets, higher than ~90% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $12,045 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 0.47% to 0.52%. The plan sits in the $50M–$250M size bracket, benchmarked here against 10,352 comparable plans and shown alongside other professional & technical services employers. By assets it is the 28th-largest of 265 plans among West Virginia employers on file, and the 1,974th of 11,654 in professional & technical services. In 2024, the employer put in $1.28 for every $1.00 employees contributed themselves.
Bowles Rice LLP's 2024 employer contribution ran above the $3,635 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.
Annual cost at the plan's reported 2024 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 550394186 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.