Newpark Drilling Fluids LLC401(k)
NEWPARK DRILLING FLUIDS 401(K) · KATY, TX · plan year 2024
Peer grade: B · admin costs + employer contributions vs same-size plans · how grading works
Newpark Drilling Fluids LLC reported $12,135 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.03% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $812 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.
The plan sits in the $10M–$50M size bracket, benchmarked here against 27,838 comparable plans and shown alongside other mining, oil & gas extraction employers. By assets it is the 1,092nd-largest of 5,688 plans among Texas employers on file, and the 188th of 612 in mining, oil & gas extraction. In 2024, employees put in $1.79 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.
Newpark Drilling Fluids LLC's 2024 employer contribution ran below the $2,416 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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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 204994235 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.