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Great Lakes Services, LLC401(k)

GREAT WOLF RESORTS 401(K) PLAN · CHICAGO, IL · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.48%

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

Great Lakes Services, LLC reported $258,382 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.48% of average plan assets, higher than ~90% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $477 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 1 year on file its reported administrative ratio rose from 0.45% to 0.48%. The plan sits in the $50M–$250M size bracket, benchmarked here against 10,352 comparable plans and shown alongside other real estate & leasing employers. By assets it is the 780th-largest of 3,702 plans among Illinois employers on file, and the 224th of 2,096 in real estate & leasing. In 2024, employees put in $1.24 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$62,174,187
Participants with balances1,874
Active participants12,864
Employer contributions$6,134,334
Employee contributions$7,587,964
Employer contribution per active participant$477
Average account balance$33,177
Benefits paid to participants$5,387,672
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history2
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$62.2M · 1,874 accts · $6.1M emplr
2023$46.2M · 1,639 accts · $1.7M emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$186,959
Investment management$71,372
Total administrative$258,382
The Great Lakes Services, LLC 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$477
Median for plans this size$3,635
2024$477 per active participant
2023$338 per active participant

Great Lakes Services, LLC'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 · 20242
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS INSTITUTIONAL · Loan processing$186,959
NFP RETIREMENT INC · Investment advisory (plan)$71,372

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

Administrative cost history2
2024$258,382 · 0.48%
2023$180,618 · 0.45%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 271371313 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.