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Hougen Manufacturing Inc401(k)

HOUGEN MANUFACTURING INC 401K PLAN · SWARTZ CREEK, MI · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.01%

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

Hougen Manufacturing Inc reported $2,690 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.01% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $2,746 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 0.04% to 0.01%. The plan sits in the $10M–$50M size bracket, benchmarked here against 27,838 comparable plans and shown alongside other manufacturing employers. By assets it is the 963rd-largest of 2,619 plans among Michigan employers on file, and the 5,521st of 13,661 in manufacturing. In 2024, employees put in $1.14 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has grown from 97 to 108 since 2022.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$22,282,852
Participants with balances134
Active participants108
Employer contributions$296,602
Employee contributions$338,113
Employer contribution per active participant$2,746
Average account balance$166,290
Benefits paid to participants$2,727,198
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$22.3M · 134 accts · $297K emplr
2023$21.0M · 125 accts · $304K emplr
2022$19.0M · 114 accts · $281K emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$2,690
Total administrative$2,690
The Hougen Manufacturing Inc 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$2,746
Median for plans this size$2,416
2024$2,746 per active participant
2023$2,622 per active participant
2022$2,898 per active participant

Hougen Manufacturing Inc'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.

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Service providers · 20241
STANCORP FINANCIAL GROUP · Claims processing · Recordkeeping$51,331

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

Recordkeeper by year2
2024The Standard
2023Securian

This plan has changed recordkeepers within these filings. If you left Hougen Manufacturing Inc before a switch, your account may sit at the earlier firm or in a rollover IRA. Looking for an account from a past job here? How to find an old 401(k).

Administrative cost history3
2024$2,690 · 0.01%
2023$3,137 · 0.02%
2022$9,104 · 0.04%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 381610348 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.