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Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center, Inc.401(k)

BUFFALO HEARING & SPEECH CENTER, INC. 401(K) PLAN · BUFFALO, NY · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.48%

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

Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center, Inc. reported $82,659 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.48% of average plan assets, higher than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $719 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 0.46% to 0.48%. The plan sits in the $10M–$50M size bracket, benchmarked here against 27,838 comparable plans and shown alongside other health care & social assistance employers. By assets it is the 2,650th-largest of 5,648 plans among New York employers on file, and the 3,923rd of 11,911 in health care & social assistance. In 2024, employees put in $5.28 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has grown from 298 to 330 since 2022.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$18,294,478
Participants with balances404
Active participants330
Employer contributions$237,218
Employee contributions$1,252,184
Employer contribution per active participant$719
Average account balance$45,283
Benefits paid to participants$1,189,110
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$18.3M · 404 accts · $237K emplr
2023$16.1M · 379 accts · $232K emplr
2022$13.8M · 368 accts · $198K emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$53,269
Investment management$29,390
Total administrative$82,659
The Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center, Inc. 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$719
Median for plans this size$2,416
2024$719 per active participant
2023$782 per active participant
2022$665 per active participant

Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center, 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 · 20243
LAWLEY RETIREMENT ADVISORS LLC · Investment advisory (plan)$25,000
EMPOWER ADVISORY GROUP, LLC · Investment management$4,390

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

Administrative cost history3
2024$82,659 · 0.48%
2023$67,123 · 0.45%
2022$69,509 · 0.46%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 160776186 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.