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Milk Specialties Company401(k)

MILK SPECIALTIES COMPANY RETIREMENT PLAN · EDEN PRAIRIE, MN · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.37%

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

Milk Specialties Company reported $227,983 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.37% of average plan assets, higher than ~90% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $3,347 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 0.42% to 0.37%. The plan sits in the $50M–$250M size bracket, benchmarked here against 10,352 comparable plans and shown alongside other manufacturing employers. By assets it is the 394th-largest of 1,918 plans among Minnesota employers on file, and the 2,551st of 13,661 in manufacturing. In 2024, employees put in $1.46 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has grown from 1,054 to 1,202 since 2022.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$66,644,346
Participants with balances1,691
Active participants1,202
Employer contributions$4,023,564
Employee contributions$5,855,128
Employer contribution per active participant$3,347
Average account balance$39,411
Benefits paid to participants$8,425,942
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
AuditorEIDE BAILY, LLP
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$66.6M · 1,691 accts · $4.0M emplr
2023$57.4M · 1,501 accts · $3.5M emplr
2022$46.8M · 1,404 accts · $3.2M emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$141,790
Investment management$69,448
Trustee / custodial$16,745
Total administrative$227,983
The Milk Specialties Company 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$3,347
Median for plans this size$3,635
2024$3,347 per active participant
2023$3,122 per active participant
2022$3,076 per active participant

Milk Specialties Company's 2024 employer contribution ran below 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.

What these fees cost you

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 · 20244
NEWPORT GROUP, INC. · Contract administrator · Recordkeeping$141,790
NFP RETIREMENT, INC. · Investment management$58,624
NEWPORT TRUST COMPANY · Trustee · Trustee (discretionary)$16,745
SECURITIES AMERICA ADVISORS, INC. · Investment management$10,824

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

Recordkeeper by year2
2024Newport (Ascensus)
2023Newport (Ascensus)

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Administrative cost history3
2024$227,983 · 0.37%
2023$214,054 · 0.41%
2022$208,334 · 0.42%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 363452006 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.