Smart Sand Inc401(k)
SMART SAND, INC. RETIREMENT PLAN · SPRING, TX · plan year 2025
Peer grade: C+ · admin costs + employer contributions vs same-size plans · how grading works
Smart Sand Inc reported $174,793 in plan administrative expenses for 2025: 1.02% of average plan assets, higher than ~90% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $3,405 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 4 years on file its reported administrative ratio has held roughly steady near 1.023%. The plan sits in the $10M–$50M size bracket, benchmarked here against 1,620 comparable plans and shown alongside other mining, oil & gas extraction employers. By assets it is the 2,212th-largest of 5,688 plans among Texas employers on file, and 332nd of 612 in mining, oil & gas extraction. In 2025, employees put in $1.67 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.
Smart Sand Inc's 2025 employer contribution ran above the $2,666 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.
Annual cost at the plan's reported 2025 administrative ratio, against the median plan its size; fund expense ratios are extra. Compare any plan.
Compensation shown is direct payments from plan assets reported on Schedule C. Providers paid through fund revenue-sharing appear as indirect.
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 452809926 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.