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Home Telephone Company, Inc.401(k)

HOME TELEPHONE COMPANY 401(K) AND RETIREMENT PLAN · MONCKS CORNER, SC · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.07%

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

Home Telephone Company, Inc. reported $30,011 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.07% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $5,511 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 0.06% to 0.07%. The plan sits in the $10M–$50M size bracket, benchmarked here against 27,838 comparable plans and shown alongside other information & media employers. By assets it is the 126th-largest of 807 plans among South Carolina employers on file, and the 545th of 2,199 in information & media. In 2024, the employer put in $1.06 for every $1.00 employees contributed themselves; active participation has grown from 229 to 258 since 2022.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$46,694,559
Participants with balances292
Active participants258
Employer contributions$1,421,941
Employee contributions$1,346,631
Employer contribution per active participant$5,511
Average account balance$159,913
Benefits paid to participants$5,041,184
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
AuditorBAUKNIGHT PIETRAS & STORMER P.A.
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$46.7M · 292 accts · $1.4M emplr
2023$43.8M · 279 accts · $1.4M emplr
2022$38.6M · 263 accts · $1.3M emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Investment management$38,517
Total administrative$30,011
The Home Telephone Company, Inc. 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$5,511
Median for plans this size$2,416
2024$5,511 per active participant
2023$5,945 per active participant
2022$5,547 per active participant

Home Telephone Company, Inc.'s 2024 employer contribution ran above the $2,416 median for plans its size, placing it in the top 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.

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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$30,011 · 0.07%
2023$27,169 · 0.07%
2022$28,114 · 0.06%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 570339548 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.