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Edelman Financial Engines, LLC401(k)

EDELMAN FINANCIAL ENGINES 401(K) PLAN · SANTA CLARA, CA · plan year 2025

Reported admin expense ratio · 2025
0.00%

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

Edelman Financial Engines, LLC reported $6,400 in plan administrative expenses for 2025: 0.00% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $6,975 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 0.002% to 0.001%. The plan sits in the $250M–$1B size bracket, benchmarked here against 230 comparable plans and shown alongside other finance & insurance employers. By assets it is the 215th-largest of 9,483 plans among California employers on file, and the 271st of 4,798 in finance & insurance. In 2025, employees put in $2.67 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$598,821,185
Participants with balances2,366
Active participants1,611
Employer contributions$11,236,949
Employee contributions$29,946,825
Employer contribution per active participant$6,975
Average account balance$253,094
Benefits paid to participants$38,009,498
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history4
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2025$598.8M · 2,366 accts · $11.2M emplr
2024$500.5M · 2,292 accts · $10.5M emplr
2023$431.6M · 2,293 accts · $9.8M emplr
2022$348.5M · 2,320 accts · $9.7M emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2025
Recordkeeping & contract admin$6,400
Total administrative$6,400
The Edelman Financial Engines, LLC 401(k) match · 2025
Employer contribution per active participant$6,975
Median for plans this size$4,295
2025$6,975 per active participant
2024$6,753 per active participant
2023$6,391 per active participant
2022$6,117 per active participant

Edelman Financial Engines, LLC's 2025 employer contribution ran above the $4,295 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.

What these fees cost you

Annual cost at the plan's reported 2025 administrative ratio, against the median plan its size; fund expense ratios are extra. Compare any plan.

Service providers · 20251
ALIGHT SOLUTIONS LLC · Recordkeeping$6,400

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

Recordkeeper by year3
2025Alight
2024Alight
2023Alight

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Administrative cost history4
2025$6,400 · 0.00%
2024$5,950 · 0.00%
2023$8,000 · 0.00%
2022$6,600 · 0.00%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 943250323 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.