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Place Business Service, Inc.401(k)

PLACE BUSINESS SERVICE, INC. 401(K) PLAN · BELLINGHAM, WA · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.12%

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

Place Business Service, Inc. reported $35,825 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.12% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $3 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 0.09% to 0.12%. The plan sits in the $10M–$50M size bracket, benchmarked here against 27,838 comparable plans and shown alongside other real estate & leasing employers. By assets it is the 344th-largest of 1,714 plans among Washington employers on file, and the 285th of 2,096 in real estate & leasing. In 2024, employees put in $649.46 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has grown from 616 to 1,423 since 2022.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$49,999,261
Participants with balances1,852
Active participants1,423
Employer contributions$4,216
Employee contributions$2,738,127
Employer contribution per active participant$3
Average account balance$26,997
Benefits paid to participants$1,094,753
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
AuditorC DART CPA
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$50.0M · 1,852 accts · $4K emplr
2023$9.7M · 1,083 accts · $15K emplr
2022$5.5M · 912 accts
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$35,825
Total administrative$35,825
The Place Business Service, Inc. 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$3
Median for plans this size$2,416
2024$3 per active participant
2023$20 per active participant

Place Business Service, Inc.'s 2024 employer contribution ran below the $2,416 median for plans its size, in the bottom 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.

What these fees cost you

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 · 20242
THE VANGUARD GROUP, INC. · Loan processing · Recordkeeping$32,683
JOHN HANCOCK RETIREMENT PLAN SRVCS · Recordkeeping · Loan processing$3,142

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

Recordkeeper by year2
2024John Hancock, Vanguard
2023Vanguard

This plan has changed recordkeepers within these filings. If you left Place Business Service, Inc. before a switch, your account may sit at the earlier firm or in a rollover IRA. Looking for an account from a past job here? How to find an old 401(k).

Administrative cost history3
2024$35,825 · 0.12%
2023$42,332 · 0.56%
2022$4,187 · 0.09%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 811038094 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.