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Salem Five Cents Savings Bank401(k)

SALEM FIVE 401(K) RETIREMENT PLAN · SALEM, MA · plan year 2025

Reported admin expense ratio · 2025
0.02%

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

Salem Five Cents Savings Bank reported $22,108 in plan administrative expenses for 2025: 0.02% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $3,173 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 rose from 0.01% to 0.02%. The plan sits in the $50M–$250M size bracket, benchmarked here against 605 comparable plans and shown alongside other finance & insurance employers. By assets it is the 400th-largest of 2,726 plans among Massachusetts employers on file, and the 905th of 4,798 in finance & insurance. In 2025, employees put in $2.93 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$114,753,404
Participants with balances868
Active participants656
Employer contributions$2,081,388
Employee contributions$6,095,307
Employer contribution per active participant$3,173
Average account balance$132,204
Benefits paid to participants$19,316,858
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history4
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2025$114.8M · 868 accts · $2.1M emplr
2024$108.2M · 971 accts · $2.0M emplr
2023$99.2M · 960 accts · $1.8M emplr
2022$89.8M · 925 accts · $1.7M emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2025
Recordkeeping & contract admin$22,108
Total administrative$22,108
The Salem Five Cents Savings Bank 401(k) match · 2025
Employer contribution per active participant$3,173
Median for plans this size$4,093
2025$3,173 per active participant
2024$3,044 per active participant
2023$2,798 per active participant
2022$2,712 per active participant

Salem Five Cents Savings Bank's 2025 employer contribution ran below the $4,093 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.

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Service providers · 20251
EMPOWER ANNUITY INSURANCE COMPANY O · Recordkeeping · Loan processing$21,402

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

Recordkeeper by year3
2025Empower
2024Empower
2023Empower

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Administrative cost history4
2025$22,108 · 0.02%
2024$18,840 · 0.02%
2023$17,235 · 0.02%
2022$13,930 · 0.01%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 041802790 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.