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Phillips Exeter Academy403(b)

THE PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY DEFINED CONTRIBUTION RETIREMENT PLAN · EXETER, NH · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.03%

Peer grade: A- · admin costs + employer contributions vs same-size plans · how grading works

Phillips Exeter Academy reported $80,314 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.03% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $5,579 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 0.025% to 0.035%. The plan sits in the $50M–$250M size bracket, benchmarked here against 10,352 comparable plans and shown alongside other educational services employers. By assets it is the 18th-largest of 411 plans among New Hampshire employers on file, and the 236th of 3,091 in educational services. In 2024, the employer put in $1.05 for every $1.00 employees contributed themselves; active participation has grown from 868 to 980 since 2022.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$242,218,438
Participants with balances1,344
Active participants980
Employer contributions$5,467,306
Employee contributions$5,185,664
Employer contribution per active participant$5,579
Average account balance$180,222
Benefits paid to participants$16,389,999
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$242.2M · 1,344 accts · $5.5M emplr
2023$220.6M · 1,330 accts · $5.2M emplr
2022$199.9M · 1,356 accts · $4.9M emplr
Employer contributions to the Phillips Exeter Academy plan · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$5,579
Median for plans this size$3,635
2024$5,579 per active participant
2023$5,825 per active participant
2022$5,641 per active participant

Phillips Exeter Academy's 2024 employer contribution ran above the $3,635 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.

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Annual cost at the plan's reported 2024 administrative ratio, against the median plan its size; fund expense ratios are extra. Compare any plan.

Service providers · 20241
THE VANGUARD GROUP, INC. · Recordkeeping · Consulting$80,314

Compensation shown is direct payments from plan assets reported on Schedule C. Providers paid through fund revenue-sharing appear as indirect.

Recordkeeper by year2
2024Vanguard
2023Vanguard

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Administrative cost history3
2024$80,314 · 0.03%
2023$78,438 · 0.04%
2022$56,072 · 0.03%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 020222174 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.