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Essentia HealthProfit-sharing plan

ESSENTIA HEALTH RETIREMENT PLAN · DULUTH, MN · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.06%

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

Essentia Health reported $1,318,277 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.06% of average plan assets, above the peer median. Employer contributions averaged $3,603 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 0.07% to 0.06%. The plan sits in the over $1B size bracket, benchmarked here against 1,229 comparable plans and shown alongside other health care & social assistance employers. By assets it is the 22nd-largest of 1,918 plans among Minnesota employers on file, and the 79th of 11,911 in health care & social assistance. In 2024, employees put in $1.84 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$2,188,641,370
Participants with balances19,655
Active participants16,170
Employer contributions$58,260,166
Employee contributions$106,933,648
Employer contribution per active participant$3,603
Average account balance$111,353
Benefits paid to participants$190,997,570
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$2.2B · 19,655 accts · $58.3M emplr
2023$1.9B · 19,333 accts · $53.0M emplr
2022$1.6B · 18,794 accts · $49.3M emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$1,159,657
Investment management$137,720
Audit (IQPA)$19,400
Total administrative$1,318,277
Employer contributions to the Essentia Health plan · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$3,603
Median for plans this size$5,259
2024$3,603 per active participant
2023$3,376 per active participant
2022$3,183 per active participant

Essentia Health's 2024 employer contribution ran below the $5,259 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 · 20247
EMPOWER ANNUITY INSURANCE COMPANY · Loan processing · Recordkeeping$1,161,157
FIDUCIENT ADVISORS LLC · Investment management$137,720
EIDE BAILLY LLP · Accounting / audit$19,400
GS INVESTMENTS INC$6,127
ENVESTNET ASSET MANAGEMENT INC$6,051
VESTIA ADVISORS LLC$5,179
CHARLES SCHWAB & CO., INC. · Investment advisory (participants) · Securities brokerage$2,393

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

Recordkeeper by year2
2024Empower
2023Empower

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Administrative cost history3
2024$1,318,277 · 0.06%
2023$1,317,745 · 0.07%
2022$1,267,969 · 0.07%
All plans at this employer2
ESSENTIA HEALTH 403(B) PLAN403(b)
ESSENTIA HEALTH RETIREMENT PLANProfit-sharing plan
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 200360007 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.