Palmer Companies, Inc.ESOP
PALMER GROUP EMPLOYEE STOCK OWNERSHIP PLAN · WEST DES MOINES, IA · plan year 2024
Peer grade: A · admin costs + employer contributions vs same-size plans · how grading works
Palmer Companies, Inc. reported $203 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.00% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $10,481 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 0.004% to 0.001%. The plan sits in the $10M–$50M size bracket, benchmarked here against 27,838 comparable plans and shown alongside other accommodation & food services employers. By assets it is the 410th-largest of 878 plans among Iowa employers on file, and the 313th of 2,240 in accommodation & food services.
Palmer Companies, Inc.'s 2024 employer contribution ran above the $2,416 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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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 421480932 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.