Northwestern University403(b)
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY RETIREMENT PLAN · EVANSTON, IL · plan year 2024
Peer grade: A · admin costs + employer contributions vs same-size plans · how grading works
Northwestern University reported $504,004 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.01% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $10,426 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 3 years on file its reported administrative ratio has held roughly steady near 0.012%. The plan sits in the over $1B size bracket, benchmarked here against 1,229 comparable plans and shown alongside other educational services employers. By assets it is the 18th-largest of 3,702 plans among Illinois employers on file, and the 15th of 3,091 in educational services. In 2024, the employer put in $2.36 for every $1.00 employees contributed themselves.
Northwestern University's 2024 employer contribution ran above the $5,259 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.
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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 362167817 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.