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Guardant Health, Inc.401(k)

GUARDANT HEALTH 401(K) PLAN · PALO ALTO, CA · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.04%

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

Guardant Health, Inc. reported $66,464 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.04% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $3,856 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 $50M–$250M size bracket, benchmarked here against 10,352 comparable plans and shown alongside other health care & social assistance employers. By assets it is the 582nd-largest of 9,483 plans among California employers on file, and the 659th of 11,911 in health care & social assistance. In 2024, employees put in $3.91 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$192,996,480
Participants with balances2,334
Active participants1,843
Employer contributions$7,107,326
Employee contributions$27,803,985
Employer contribution per active participant$3,856
Average account balance$82,689
Benefits paid to participants$13,675,232
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$193.0M · 2,334 accts · $7.1M emplr
2023$139.2M · 2,084 accts · $6.7M emplr
2022$89.9M · 2,016 accts · $6.3M emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$17,246
Investment management$49,218
Total administrative$66,464
The Guardant Health, Inc. 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$3,856
Median for plans this size$3,635
2024$3,856 per active participant
2023$4,066 per active participant
2022$3,765 per active participant

Guardant Health, Inc.'s 2024 employer contribution ran above 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 · 20242
STRATEGIC ADVISORS, INC. · Investment advisory (plan)$49,218
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS INSTITUTIONAL · Loan processing$17,246

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$66,464 · 0.04%
2023$68,314 · 0.06%
2022$80,100 · 0.10%
Same employer
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Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital CA$178.4M · 0.17%
North East Medical Services CA$175.0M · 0.13%

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 454139254 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.