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Midland Paper Company401(k)

MIDLAND PAPER COMPANY 401(K) PLAN AND TRUST · WHEELING, IL · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.02%

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

Midland Paper Company reported $24,419 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.02% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $1,733 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 0.02%. The plan sits in the $50M–$250M size bracket, benchmarked here against 10,352 comparable plans and shown alongside other wholesale trade employers. By assets it is the 539th-largest of 3,702 plans among Illinois employers on file, and the 393rd of 4,246 in wholesale trade. In 2024, employees put in $4.57 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has grown from 639 to 819 since 2022.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$105,743,071
Participants with balances977
Active participants819
Employer contributions$1,419,533
Employee contributions$6,480,686
Employer contribution per active participant$1,733
Average account balance$108,232
Benefits paid to participants$12,596,181
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
AuditorCROWE LLP
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$105.7M · 977 accts · $1.4M emplr
2023$96.7M · 822 accts · $1.3M emplr
2022$80.1M · 791 accts · $1.0M emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$8,034
Total administrative$24,419
The Midland Paper Company 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$1,733
Median for plans this size$3,635
2024$1,733 per active participant
2023$1,746 per active participant
2022$1,618 per active participant

Midland Paper Company's 2024 employer contribution ran below the $3,635 median for plans its size, in the bottom 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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Service providers · 20241

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

Recordkeeper by year2
2024Bank of America / Merrill
2023Bank of America / Merrill

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Administrative cost history3
2024$24,419 · 0.02%
2023$16,821 · 0.02%
2022$25,937 · 0.03%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 362035026 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.