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Ferrara Candy Company401(k)

FERRARA CANDY COMPANY 401(K) PLAN · CHICAGO, IL · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.23%

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

Ferrara Candy Company reported $474,355 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.23% of average plan assets, higher than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $3,585 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 0.28% to 0.23%. The plan sits in the $50M–$250M size bracket, benchmarked here against 10,352 comparable plans and shown alongside other manufacturing employers. By assets it is the 309th-largest of 3,702 plans among Illinois employers on file, and the 1,097th of 13,661 in manufacturing. In 2024, employees put in $1.84 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$217,282,364
Participants with balances3,423
Active participants2,765
Employer contributions$9,913,162
Employee contributions$18,233,584
Employer contribution per active participant$3,585
Average account balance$63,477
Benefits paid to participants$26,824,515
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
AuditorPORTE BROWN
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$217.3M · 3,423 accts · $9.9M emplr
2023$189.5M · 3,193 accts · $8.5M emplr
2022$169.0M · 3,441 accts · $9.7M emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$388,500
Investment management$69,255
Total administrative$474,355
The Ferrara Candy Company 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$3,585
Median for plans this size$3,635
2024$3,585 per active participant
2023$3,572 per active participant
2022$3,869 per active participant

Ferrara Candy Company's 2024 employer contribution ran below the $3,635 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 · 20244
CREATIVE PLANNING HOLDCO LLC · Investment advisory (plan)$69,255
PORTE BROWN, LLC$16,600

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

Administrative cost history3
2024$474,355 · 0.23%
2023$466,279 · 0.26%
2022$534,021 · 0.28%
All plans at this employer2
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 363331581 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.