Plan Ledger DOL Form 5500 · updated monthly

Cooperative Banks Employees Retirement Association401(k)

CBERA PLAN A · NORWOOD, MA · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.21%

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

Cooperative Banks Employees Retirement Association reported $1,623,310 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.21% of average plan assets, higher than ~90% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $5,188 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 0.19% to 0.21%. The plan sits in the $250M–$1B size bracket, benchmarked here against 2,883 comparable plans and shown alongside other finance & insurance employers. By assets it is the 72nd-largest of 2,726 plans among Massachusetts employers on file, and the 216th of 4,798 in finance & insurance. In 2024, employees put in $1.73 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has shrunk from 3,187 to 2,856 since 2022.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$813,276,334
Participants with balances4,925
Active participants2,856
Employer contributions$14,815,944
Employee contributions$25,641,373
Employer contribution per active participant$5,188
Average account balance$165,132
Benefits paid to participants$52,214,162
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$813.3M · 4,925 accts · $14.8M emplr
2023$725.3M · 4,977 accts · $15.6M emplr
2022$657.4M · 5,300 accts · $15.6M emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$1,455,237
Investment management$90,000
Audit (IQPA)$57,604
Trustee / custodial$5,129
Total administrative$1,623,310
The Cooperative Banks Employees Retirement Association 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$5,188
Median for plans this size$4,294
2024$5,188 per active participant
2023$4,921 per active participant
2022$4,886 per active participant

Cooperative Banks Employees Retirement Association's 2024 employer contribution ran above the $4,294 median for plans its size. 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 · 20246
T ROWE PRICE RPS INC · Recordkeeping · Trustee$243,554
CBERA · Plan administrator$357,500
NEPC, LLC · Consulting$135,000
WOLF & COMPANY, P.C. · Accounting / audit$57,604
AGILIS PARTNERS LLC · Consulting$15,000
CHARLES SCHWAB & CO., INC. · Securities brokerage$889

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

Recordkeeper by year2
2024T. Rowe Price
2023T. Rowe Price

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Administrative cost history3
2024$1,623,310 · 0.21%
2023$1,413,013 · 0.20%
2022$1,359,020 · 0.19%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 046035593 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.