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First Interstate Bancsystem, Inc.401(k)

FIRST INTERSTATE BANCSYSTEM, INC. 401(K) PLAN · BILLINGS, MT · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.04%

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

First Interstate Bancsystem, Inc. reported $172,956 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.04% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $3,720 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 0.10% to 0.04%. The plan sits in the $250M–$1B size bracket, benchmarked here against 2,883 comparable plans and shown alongside other finance & insurance employers. By assets it is the 6th-largest of 229 plans among Montana employers on file, and the 319th of 4,798 in finance & insurance. In 2024, employees put in $1.63 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$481,734,557
Participants with balances4,868
Active participants3,478
Employer contributions$12,937,091
Employee contributions$21,101,989
Employer contribution per active participant$3,720
Average account balance$98,959
Benefits paid to participants$66,444,767
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$481.7M · 4,868 accts · $12.9M emplr
2023$453.6M · 5,103 accts · $12.6M emplr
2022$425.8M · 5,166 accts · $13.3M emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$130,817
Investment management$42,139
Total administrative$172,956
The First Interstate Bancsystem, Inc. 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$3,720
Median for plans this size$4,294
2024$3,720 per active participant
2023$3,574 per active participant
2022$3,546 per active participant

First Interstate Bancsystem, Inc.'s 2024 employer contribution ran below the $4,294 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 · 20242
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS INSTITUTIONAL · Loan processing$130,814
STRATEGIC ADVISORS, INC. · Investment advisory (plan)$42,139

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$172,956 · 0.04%
2023$169,400 · 0.04%
2022$405,984 · 0.10%
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D.A. Davidson Companies MT$622.7M · 0.03%
Glacier Bancorp, Inc. MT$537.9M · 0.02%
Stockman Financial Corp. MT$116.7M · 0.07%
Opportunity Bank of Montana MT$40.0M · 0.10%
Independence Bank MT$34.5M · 0.38%

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 810331430 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.