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Plume Design, Inc.401(k)

PLUME DESIGN, INC. 401K PLAN · PALO ALTO, CA · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.08%

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

Plume Design, Inc. reported $18,380 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.08% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $7,053 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 0.04% to 0.08%. The plan sits in the $10M–$50M size bracket, benchmarked here against 27,838 comparable plans and shown alongside other professional & technical services employers. By assets it is the 2,991st-largest of 9,483 plans among California employers on file, and the 4,595th of 11,654 in professional & technical services. In 2024, employees put in $3.74 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has shrunk from 245 to 130 since 2022.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$26,182,981
Participants with balances279
Active participants130
Employer contributions$916,898
Employee contributions$3,427,621
Employer contribution per active participant$7,053
Average account balance$93,846
Benefits paid to participants$4,194,674
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$26.2M · 279 accts · $917K emplr
2023$21.0M · 311 accts · $1.0M emplr
2022$15.2M · 321 accts · $1.4M emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$16,559
Investment management$1,821
Total administrative$18,380
The Plume Design, Inc. 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$7,053
Median for plans this size$2,416
2024$7,053 per active participant
2023$3,963 per active participant
2022$5,562 per active participant

Plume Design, 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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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
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS INSTITUTIONAL · Loan processing$16,559

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

Administrative cost history3
2024$18,380 · 0.08%
2023$8,772 · 0.05%
2022$5,918 · 0.04%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 475212844 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.