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Brunner & Lay, Inc.401(k)

BRUNNER & LAY EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT PLAN · SPRINGDALE, AR · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.03%

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

Brunner & Lay, Inc. reported $5,225 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.03% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $453 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 0.01% to 0.03%. The plan sits in the $10M–$50M size bracket, benchmarked here against 27,838 comparable plans and shown alongside other manufacturing employers. By assets it is the 178th-largest of 456 plans among Arkansas employers on file, and 6,869th of 13,661 in manufacturing. In 2024, employees put in $5.64 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$15,782,094
Participants with balances180
Active participants170
Employer contributions$77,000
Employee contributions$434,509
Employer contribution per active participant$453
Average account balance$87,678
Benefits paid to participants$828,601
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$15.8M · 180 accts · $77K emplr
2023$14.3M · 161 accts · $45K emplr
2022$12.1M · 161 accts · $35K emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$1,692
Investment management$3,533
Total administrative$5,225
The Brunner & Lay, Inc. 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$453
Median for plans this size$2,416
2024$453 per active participant
2023$263 per active participant
2022$212 per active participant

Brunner & Lay, Inc.'s 2024 employer contribution ran below the $2,416 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 · 20241
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS INSTITUTIONAL · Recordkeeping · Loan processing$1,692

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
2023Fidelity

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Administrative cost history3
2024$5,225 · 0.03%
2023$6,308 · 0.05%
2022$850 · 0.01%
Same employer
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J.V. Manufacturing, Inc. AR$18.7M · 0.75%
Twin Rivers Pine Bluff LLC AR$18.3M · 0.03%
Welspun Tubular, LLC AR$16.4M · 0.68%
Arkansas Steel Associates AR$14.7M · 0.20%
Roach Manufacturing Corp. AR$13.4M · 0.01%

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 362065746 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.