Southern California Pipe Trades Defined Contribution Plan401(k)

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

Southern California Pipe Trades Defined Contribution Plan reported $1,929,526 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.52% of average plan assets, higher than ~90% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $420 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 6 years on file its reported administrative ratio fell from 0.67% to 0.52%. The plan sits in the $250M–$1B size bracket, benchmarked here against 2,883 comparable plans and shown alongside other construction employers. By assets it is the 322nd-largest of 9,483 plans among California employers on file, and the 173rd of 5,337 in construction. In 2024, employees put in $4.86 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has grown from 10,569 to 13,030 since 2018.