FRONTIER AIRLINES, INC. 401(K) RETIREMENT PLAN · DENVER, CO · plan year 2024
Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.29%
Peer grade: B· admin costs + employer contributions vs same-size plans · how grading works
Frontier Airlines, Inc. reported $2,578,352 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.29% of average plan assets, higher than ~90% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $8,660 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 0.32% to 0.29%. The plan sits in the $250M–$1B size bracket, benchmarked here against 2,883 comparable plans and shown alongside other transportation & warehousing employers. By assets it is the 19th-largest of 1,461 plans among Colorado employers on file, and the 43rd of 2,677 in transportation & warehousing. In 2024, the employer put in $1.53 for every $1.00 employees contributed themselves; active participation has grown from 6,236 to 7,716 since 2022.
Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$961,923,844
Participants with balances6,133
Active participants7,716
Employer contributions$66,818,666
Employee contributions$43,778,727
Employer contribution per active participant$8,660
Employer contribution per active participant$8,660
Median for plans this size$4,294
2024$8,660 per active participant
2023$9,047 per active participant
2022$8,718 per active participant
Frontier Airlines, Inc.'s 2024 employer contribution ran above the $4,294 median for plans its size, placing it in the top 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.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 841256945 ·
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Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.