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Evening Post Publishing, Inc.401(k)

EVENING POST PUBLISHING, INC. EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT PLAN · CHARLESTON, SC · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.27%

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

Evening Post Publishing, Inc. reported $141,382 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.27% of average plan assets, higher than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $1,865 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 rose from 0.21% to 0.27%. The plan sits in the $50M–$250M size bracket, benchmarked here against 10,352 comparable plans and shown alongside other information & media employers. By assets it is the 99th-largest of 807 plans among South Carolina employers on file, and the 485th of 2,199 in information & media. In 2024, employees put in $2.55 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$54,407,416
Participants with balances997
Active participants312
Employer contributions$581,979
Employee contributions$1,483,750
Employer contribution per active participant$1,865
Average account balance$54,571
Benefits paid to participants$5,367,919
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$54.4M · 997 accts · $582K emplr
2023$51.5M · 1,078 accts · $433K emplr
2022$49.6M · 1,253 accts · $384K emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$100,632
Investment management$25,000
Audit (IQPA)$15,750
Total administrative$141,382
The Evening Post Publishing, Inc. 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$1,865
Median for plans this size$3,635
2024$1,865 per active participant
2023$1,388 per active participant
2022$1,125 per active participant

Evening Post Publishing, Inc.'s 2024 employer contribution ran below the $3,635 median for plans its size, in the bottom 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 2024 administrative ratio, against the median plan its size; fund expense ratios are extra. Compare any plan.

Service providers · 20245
TRANSAMERICA RETIREMENT SOLUTIONS · Claims processing · Recordkeeping$100,632
FORVIS MAZARS · Accounting / audit$15,750
WELLTH ADVISORY SERVICES, LLC · Consulting$12,500
GLOBAL RETIREMENT PARTNERS, LLC · Consulting$12,500
NATIONAL FINANCIAL SERVICES · Securities brokerageindirect comp

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

Recordkeeper by year2
2024Transamerica
2023Transamerica

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Administrative cost history3
2024$141,382 · 0.27%
2023$150,863 · 0.30%
2022$124,075 · 0.21%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 872154096 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.