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Polar Corp.401(k)

POLAR BEVERAGES RETIREMENT PLAN · WORCESTER, MA · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.28%

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

Polar Corp. reported $267,138 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.28% of average plan assets, higher than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $651 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 0.31% to 0.28%. The plan sits in the $50M–$250M size bracket, benchmarked here against 10,352 comparable plans and shown alongside other manufacturing employers. By assets it is the 420th-largest of 2,726 plans among Massachusetts employers on file, and the 1,874th of 13,661 in manufacturing. In 2024, employees put in $7.29 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has grown from 1,639 to 1,905 since 2022.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$102,425,498
Participants with balances2,075
Active participants1,905
Employer contributions$1,239,698
Employee contributions$9,040,443
Employer contribution per active participant$651
Average account balance$49,362
Benefits paid to participants$9,540,535
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
AuditorBOLLUS & LYNCH LLP
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$102.4M · 2,075 accts · $1.2M emplr
2023$91.1M · 1,977 accts · $1.1M emplr
2022$75.7M · 1,706 accts · $1.0M emplr
The Polar Corp. 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$651
Median for plans this size$3,635
2024$651 per active participant
2023$638 per active participant
2022$625 per active participant

Polar Corp.'s 2024 employer contribution ran below the $3,635 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 · 20244
GLOBAL RETIREMENT PARTNERS LLC · Securities brokerage · Investment advisory (plan)$77,516
RPW SOLUTIONS LLC · Contract administrator · Pension consulting$67,819
EMPOWER ADVISORY GROUP, LLC · Investment management$11,544

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$267,138 · 0.28%
2023$261,617 · 0.31%
2022$260,570 · 0.31%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 043026575 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.