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Middlesex Water Co.401(k)

MIDDLESEX WATER COMPANY 401(K) PLAN · ISELIN, NJ · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.01%

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

Middlesex Water Co. reported $8,972 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.01% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $5,008 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 0.03% to 0.01%. The plan sits in the $50M–$250M size bracket, benchmarked here against 10,352 comparable plans and shown alongside other utilities employers. By assets it is the 422nd-largest of 2,419 plans among New Jersey employers on file, and the 147th of 412 in utilities. In 2024, employees put in $1.28 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$78,417,029
Participants with balances391
Active participants360
Employer contributions$1,802,966
Employee contributions$2,315,053
Employer contribution per active participant$5,008
Average account balance$200,555
Benefits paid to participants$8,524,812
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
AuditorWITHUM SMITH AND BROWN PC
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$78.4M · 391 accts · $1.8M emplr
2023$69.4M · 376 accts · $1.7M emplr
2022$56.9M · 376 accts · $1.5M emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$4,463
Investment management$3,958
Total administrative$8,972
The Middlesex Water Co. 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$5,008
Median for plans this size$3,635
2024$5,008 per active participant
2023$4,747 per active participant
2022$4,407 per active participant

Middlesex Water Co.'s 2024 employer contribution ran above the $3,635 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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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 · 20241
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS INSTITUTIONAL · Loan processing$4,463

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$8,972 · 0.01%
2023$8,736 · 0.01%
2022$16,894 · 0.03%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 221114430 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.