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Sonoco Products Company401(k)

SONOCO RETIREMENT & SAVINGS PLAN · HARTSVILLE, SC · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.11%

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

Sonoco Products Company reported $1,761,261 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.11% of average plan assets, higher than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $4,481 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 7 years on file its reported administrative ratio fell from 0.14% to 0.11%. The plan sits in the over $1B size bracket, benchmarked here against 1,229 comparable plans and shown alongside other manufacturing employers. By assets it is the 4th-largest of 807 plans among South Carolina employers on file, and the 205th of 13,661 in manufacturing. In 2024, employees put in $1.45 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has grown from 8,205 to 11,080 since 2018.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$1,663,698,617
Participants with balances15,367
Active participants11,080
Employer contributions$49,652,000
Employee contributions$71,778,000
Employer contribution per active participant$4,481
Average account balance$108,264
Benefits paid to participants$200,374,222
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
AuditorCROWE LLP
Plan history7
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2025$1.5B · 11,233 accts · $42.3M emplr
2024$1.7B · 15,367 accts · $49.7M emplr
2023$1.6B · 14,687 accts · $48.9M emplr
2022$1.2B · 12,946 accts · $38.3M emplr
2020$1.3B · 12,643 accts · $36.8M emplr
2019$1.2B · 12,302 accts · $35.5M emplr
2018$1.0B · 9,755 accts · $27.1M emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$530,614
Investment management$1,119,346
Audit (IQPA)$111,001
Total administrative$1,761,261
The Sonoco Products Company 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$4,481
Median for plans this size$5,259
2025$5,554 per active participant
2024$4,481 per active participant
2023$4,201 per active participant
2022$3,383 per active participant
2020$3,611 per active participant

Sonoco Products Company's 2024 employer contribution ran below 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 · 20245
EMPOWER ANNUITY INSURANCE COMPANY · Recordkeeping · Loan processing$482,728
EMPOWER ADVISORY GROUP, LLC · Investment management$1,119,346
CROWE LLP · Accounting / audit$70,144
AON CONSULTING INC DBA HEWITT ASSOC · Contract administrator · Legal$47,887
BDO USA LLP · Accounting / audit$40,857

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 history7
2025$1,749,097 · 0.11%
2024$1,761,261 · 0.11%
2023$1,803,186 · 0.13%
2022$1,642,018 · 0.12%
2020$1,654,756 · 0.13%
2019$1,466,693 · 0.13%
2018$1,397,642 · 0.14%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 570248420 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.