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R. a. Pearson Company401(k)

PEARSON PACKAGING SYSTEMS 401(K) PROFIT SHARING PLAN AND TRUST · SPOKANE, WA · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.06%

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

R. a. Pearson Company reported $16,188 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.06% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $991 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 3 years on file its reported administrative ratio has held roughly steady near 0.056%. The plan sits in the $10M–$50M size bracket, benchmarked here against 27,838 comparable plans and shown alongside other manufacturing employers. By assets it is the 542nd-largest of 1,714 plans among Washington employers on file, and the 4,569th of 13,661 in manufacturing. In 2024, employees put in $8.81 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has shrunk from 244 to 180 since 2022.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$29,255,262
Participants with balances307
Active participants180
Employer contributions$178,298
Employee contributions$1,571,522
Employer contribution per active participant$991
Average account balance$95,294
Benefits paid to participants$5,311,714
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$29.3M · 307 accts · $178K emplr
2023$28.8M · 328 accts · $587K emplr
2022$25.6M · 331 accts · $598K emplr
The R. a. Pearson Company 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$991
Median for plans this size$2,416
2024$991 per active participant
2023$2,877 per active participant
2022$2,450 per active participant

R. a. Pearson Company'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.

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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 · Trustee (directed)$16,688

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$16,188 · 0.06%
2023$16,108 · 0.06%
2022$15,895 · 0.06%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 910827518 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.