Depaul University403(b)
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY 403(B) RETIREMENT PLAN · CHICAGO, IL · plan year 2025
Peer grade: A- · admin costs + employer contributions vs same-size plans · how grading works
Depaul University reported $273,423 in plan administrative expenses for 2025: 0.02% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $5,500 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 3 years on file its reported administrative ratio fell from 0.03% to 0.02%. The plan sits in the over $1B size bracket, benchmarked here against 141 comparable plans and shown alongside other educational services employers. By assets it is the 69th-largest of 3,702 plans among Illinois employers on file, and the 36th of 3,091 in educational services. In 2025, employees put in $1.31 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.
Depaul University's 2025 employer contribution ran above the $5,084 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.
Annual cost at the plan's reported 2025 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 362167048 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.