Joint Board of Trustees, Ibew Local Union No 5 & Western PA Chapter Ne401(k)
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ELECTRICAL EMPLOYEES DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN · PITTSBURGH, PA · plan year 2025
Peer grade: B · admin costs + employer contributions vs same-size plans · how grading works
Joint Board of Trustees, Ibew Local Union No 5 & Western PA Chapter Ne reported $866,458 in plan administrative expenses for 2025: 0.16% of average plan assets, higher than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $9,525 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 3 years on file its reported administrative ratio fell from 0.18% to 0.16%. The plan sits in the $250M–$1B size bracket, benchmarked here against 230 comparable plans and shown alongside other construction employers. By assets it is the 133rd-largest of 3,651 plans among Pennsylvania employers on file, and the 120th of 5,337 in construction.
Joint Board of Trustees, Ibew Local Union No 5 & Western PA Chapter Ne's 2025 employer contribution ran above the $4,295 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.
Annual cost at the plan's reported 2025 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 251368983 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.