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Grand Traverse Container, Inc.401(k)

GRAND TRAVERSE CONTAINER, INC. 401(K) PLAN · TRAVERSE CITY, MI · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.06%

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

Grand Traverse Container, Inc. reported $6,900 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.06% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $1,947 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 0.04% to 0.06%. The plan sits in the $10M–$50M size bracket, benchmarked here against 27,838 comparable plans and shown alongside other manufacturing employers. By assets it is among the smaller plans on file in Michigan (1,445th of 2,619), and 8,197th of 13,661 in manufacturing. In 2024, employees put in $1.70 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$11,458,968
Participants with balances199
Active participants182
Employer contributions$354,288
Employee contributions$600,866
Employer contribution per active participant$1,947
Average account balance$57,583
Benefits paid to participants$1,769,352
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$11.5M · 199 accts · $354K emplr
2023$10.8M · 185 accts · $359K emplr
2022$8.7M · 172 accts · $375K emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$6,900
Total administrative$6,900
The Grand Traverse Container, Inc. 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$1,947
Median for plans this size$2,416
2024$1,947 per active participant
2023$2,097 per active participant
2022$2,132 per active participant

Grand Traverse Container, Inc.'s 2024 employer contribution ran below the $2,416 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
SENTINEL BENEFITS GROUP, INC. · Recordkeeping · Pension consulting$6,900

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$6,900 · 0.06%
2023$4,645 · 0.05%
2022$3,690 · 0.04%
Similar plansManufacturing · Michigan
Whitlam Group, Inc. MI$11.6M · 0.16%
M. Argueso & Co., Inc. MI$11.6M · 0.29%
Trulife, Inc. MI$11.5M · 0.25%
Great Lakes Castings, LLC MI$11.2M · 0.72%
Century Plastics, LLC MI$11.1M · 0.70%

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 383242925 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.