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Principal Financial Group, Inc.401(k) + ESOP (KSOP)

THE PRINCIPAL SELECT SAVINGS PLAN · DES MOINES, IA · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.02%

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

Principal Financial Group, Inc. reported $1,013,291 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.02% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $6,008 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 0.04% to 0.02%. The plan sits in the over $1B size bracket, benchmarked here against 1,229 comparable plans and shown alongside other finance & insurance employers. By assets it is the 1st-largest of 878 plans among Iowa employers on file, and the 47th of 4,798 in finance & insurance. In 2024, employees put in $1.92 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$4,579,548,793
Participants with balances17,454
Active participants12,662
Employer contributions$76,067,723
Employee contributions$146,264,396
Employer contribution per active participant$6,008
Average account balance$262,378
Benefits paid to participants$352,405,790
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$4.6B · 17,454 accts · $76.1M emplr
2023$4.1B · 17,498 accts · $73.3M emplr
2022$3.6B · 17,352 accts · $68.9M emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$1,010,682
Total administrative$1,013,291
The Principal Financial Group, Inc. 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$6,008
Median for plans this size$5,259
2024$6,008 per active participant
2023$5,732 per active participant
2022$5,393 per active participant

Principal Financial Group, Inc.'s 2024 employer contribution ran above the $5,259 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.

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
PRINCIPAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY · Contract administrator · Loan processing$1,008,177
MORNINGSTAR INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT L · Investment advisory (participants)indirect comp

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$1,013,291 · 0.02%
2023$1,268,161 · 0.03%
2022$1,695,450 · 0.04%
All plans at this employer2
THE PRINCIPAL SELECT SAVINGS PLAN401(k) + ESOP (KSOP)
THE PRINCIPAL SELECT SAVINGS PLAN FOR INDIVIDUAL FIELD401(k) + ESOP (KSOP)
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 421520346 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.