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Choice Fabricators, Inc.401(k)

CHOICE FABRICATORS, INC. 401(K) PLAN · RAINBOW CITY, AL · plan year 2022

Reported admin expense ratio · 2022
1.66%

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

Choice Fabricators, Inc. reported $27,629 in plan administrative expenses for 2022: 1.66% of average plan assets, higher than ~90% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $163 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 30,021 comparable plans and shown alongside other manufacturing employers. By assets it is among the smaller plans on file in Alabama (828th of 902), and 13,069th of 13,661 in manufacturing. In 2022, employees put in $4.27 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$1,478,548
Participants with balances65
Active participants175
Employer contributions$28,475
Employee contributions$121,484
Employer contribution per active participant$163
Average account balance$22,747
Benefits paid to participants$176,854
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
AuditorHERMAN, SILVER & ASSOCIATES, CPAS
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2022
Investment management$26,200
Total administrative$27,629
The Choice Fabricators, Inc. 401(k) match · 2022
Employer contribution per active participant$163
Median for plans this size$1,114

Choice Fabricators, Inc.'s 2022 employer contribution ran below the $1,114 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.

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Annual cost at the plan's reported 2022 administrative ratio, against the median plan its size; fund expense ratios are extra. Compare any plan.

Administrative cost history1
2022$27,629 · 1.66%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 630777587 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.