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Essential Federal Credit Union401(k)

ESSENTIAL FEDERAL CREDIT UNION 401(K) PROFIT SHARING PLAN · BATON ROUGE, LA · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.13%

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

Essential Federal Credit Union reported $7,008 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.13% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $1,889 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 0.62% to 0.13%. The plan sits in the $1M–$10M size bracket, benchmarked here against 18,840 comparable plans and shown alongside other finance & insurance employers. By assets it is among the smaller plans on file in Louisiana (569th of 884), and 4,379th of 4,798 in finance & insurance. In 2024, employees put in $1.42 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$5,977,149
Participants with balances128
Active participants107
Employer contributions$202,092
Employee contributions$286,850
Employer contribution per active participant$1,889
Average account balance$46,696
Benefits paid to participants$167,771
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$6.0M · 128 accts · $202K emplr
2023$5.0M · 121 accts · $183K emplr
2022$4.0M · 109 accts · $145K emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$7,008
Total administrative$7,008
The Essential Federal Credit Union 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$1,889
Median for plans this size$1,313
2024$1,889 per active participant
2023$1,793 per active participant
2022$1,364 per active participant

Essential Federal Credit Union's 2024 employer contribution ran above the $1,313 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 · 20241
STANCORP FINANCIAL GROUP · Claims processing · Recordkeeping$30,138

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

Recordkeeper by year2
2024The Standard
2023Securian

This plan has changed recordkeepers within these filings. If you left Essential Federal Credit Union before a switch, your account may sit at the earlier firm or in a rollover IRA. Looking for an account from a past job here? How to find an old 401(k).

Administrative cost history3
2024$7,008 · 0.13%
2023$1,528 · 0.03%
2022$27,161 · 0.62%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 720719172 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.