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Guild Mortgage Company LLC401(k)

GUILD MORTGAGE COMPANY PROFIT SHARING 401(K) PLAN · SAN DIEGO, CA · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.19%

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

Guild Mortgage Company LLC reported $777,537 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.19% of average plan assets, higher than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $1,639 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 0.24% to 0.19%. 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 286th-largest of 9,483 plans among California employers on file, and the 330th of 4,798 in finance & insurance. In 2024, employees put in $4.28 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has grown from 4,420 to 5,083 since 2022.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$456,359,135
Participants with balances5,952
Active participants5,083
Employer contributions$8,328,608
Employee contributions$35,656,570
Employer contribution per active participant$1,639
Average account balance$76,673
Benefits paid to participants$46,648,042
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
AuditorWITHUMSMITHBROWN, PC
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$456.4M · 5,952 accts · $8.3M emplr
2023$370.6M · 5,095 accts · $5.9M emplr
2022$242.4M · 4,167 accts · $6.3M emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$473,454
Investment management$72,029
Total administrative$777,537
The Guild Mortgage Company LLC 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$1,639
Median for plans this size$4,294
2024$1,639 per active participant
2023$1,138 per active participant
2022$1,423 per active participant

Guild Mortgage Company LLC's 2024 employer contribution ran below the $4,294 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 · 20243
PRINCIPAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY · Contract administrator · Loan processing$473,454
CREATIVE PLANNING, LLC · Pension consulting · Investment advisory (plan)$304,083
CREATIVE PLANNING, LLC · Investment advisory (participants)indirect comp

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$777,537 · 0.19%
2023$608,279 · 0.20%
2022$624,094 · 0.24%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 952146137 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.