Paul Smith's College of Arts and Sciences403(b)
PAUL SMITH'S COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES DEFINED CONTRIBUTION RETIREMENT PLAN · PAUL SMITHS, NY · plan year 2024
Peer grade: A- · admin costs + employer contributions vs same-size plans · how grading works
Paul Smith's College of Arts and Sciences reported $21,838 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.08% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $3,401 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 0.06% to 0.08%. The plan sits in the $10M–$50M size bracket, benchmarked here against 27,838 comparable plans and shown alongside other educational services employers. By assets it is the 1,951st-largest of 5,648 plans among New York employers on file, and the 1,287th of 3,091 in educational services. In 2024, employees put in $1.24 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has shrunk from 126 to 112 since 2022.
Paul Smith's College of Arts and Sciences's 2024 employer contribution ran above the $2,416 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.
Annual cost at the plan's reported 2024 administrative ratio, against the median plan its size; fund expense ratios are extra. Compare any plan.
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 150533545 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.