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Dolby Laboratories, Inc.401(k)

DOLBY LABORATORIES, INC. RETIREMENT PLAN · SAN FRANCISCO, CA · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.01%

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

Dolby Laboratories, Inc. reported $92,638 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.01% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $17,001 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 fell from 0.02% to 0.01%. The plan sits in the $250M–$1B size bracket, benchmarked here against 2,883 comparable plans and shown alongside other information & media employers. By assets it is the 185th-largest of 9,483 plans among California employers on file, and the 73rd of 2,199 in information & media. In 2024, employees put in $1.15 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has shrunk from 1,200 to 1,033 since 2022.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$703,352,969
Participants with balances1,893
Active participants1,033
Employer contributions$17,561,884
Employee contributions$20,126,828
Employer contribution per active participant$17,001
Average account balance$371,555
Benefits paid to participants$52,834,766
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$703.4M · 1,893 accts · $17.6M emplr
2023$631.5M · 1,922 accts · $20.1M emplr
2022$539.3M · 1,917 accts · $19.2M emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$92,500
Total administrative$92,638
The Dolby Laboratories, Inc. 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$17,001
Median for plans this size$4,294
2024$17,001 per active participant
2023$18,627 per active participant
2022$15,975 per active participant

Dolby Laboratories, Inc.'s 2024 employer contribution ran above the $4,294 median for plans its size, placing it in the top 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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Service providers · 20241
MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER AND S · Recordkeeping$96,481

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

Recordkeeper by year2
2024Bank of America / Merrill
2023Bank of America / Merrill

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Administrative cost history3
2024$92,638 · 0.01%
2023$114,160 · 0.02%
2022$102,873 · 0.02%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 942377558 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.