Hickory Farms, LLC401(k)
THE HICKORY FARMS EMPLOYEE SAVINGS AND RETIREMENT PLAN · CHICAGO, IL · plan year 2024
Peer grade: C+ · admin costs + employer contributions vs same-size plans · how grading works
Hickory Farms, LLC reported $60,330 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.56% of average plan assets, higher than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $3,164 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 0.42% to 0.56%. The plan sits in the $10M–$50M size bracket, benchmarked here against 27,838 comparable plans and shown alongside other retail trade employers. By assets it is among the smaller plans on file in Illinois (2,293rd of 3,702), and the 2,412th of 5,215 in retail trade. In 2024, employees put in $2.10 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has shrunk from 143 to 115 since 2022.
Hickory Farms, LLC's 2024 employer contribution ran above 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.
Annual cost at the plan's reported 2024 administrative ratio, against the median plan its size; fund expense ratios are extra. Compare any plan.
Compensation shown is direct payments from plan assets reported on Schedule C. Providers paid through fund revenue-sharing appear as indirect.
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 341533409 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.