Northwest Hardware Company, Inc.401(k)
NORTHWEST HARDWARE CO. , INC. RETIREMENT PLAN · ROANOKE, VA · plan year 2024
Peer grade: A · admin costs + employer contributions vs same-size plans · how grading works
Northwest Hardware Company, Inc. reported $3,710 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.07% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $2,432 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 rose from 0.04% to 0.07%. The plan sits in the $1M–$10M size bracket, benchmarked here against 18,840 comparable plans and shown alongside other retail trade employers. By assets it is among the smaller plans on file in Virginia (1,750th of 2,266), and 3,531st of 5,215 in retail trade. In 2024, the employer put in $1.23 for every $1.00 employees contributed themselves; active participation has grown from 118 to 141 since 2022.
Northwest Hardware Company, Inc.'s 2024 employer contribution ran above the $1,313 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 2024 administrative ratio, against the median plan its size; fund expense ratios are extra. Compare any plan.
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 540554374 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.