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Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative401(k)

SOUTHERN MINNESOTA BEET SUGAR COOPERATIVE 401(K) PLAN · RENVILLE, MN · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.01%

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

Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative reported $3,422 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.01% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $13,885 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 2 years on file its reported administrative ratio fell from 0.08% to 0.01%. 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 783rd-largest of 1,918 plans among Minnesota employers on file, and the 5,122nd of 13,661 in manufacturing. In 2024, the employer put in $1.29 for every $1.00 employees contributed themselves; active participation has shrunk from 169 to 140 since 2022.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$25,033,887
Participants with balances144
Active participants140
Employer contributions$1,943,952
Employee contributions$1,511,431
Employer contribution per active participant$13,885
Average account balance$173,846
Benefits paid to participants$2,478,637
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$25.0M · 144 accts · $1.9M emplr
2023$20.6M · 132 accts · $1.7M emplr
2022$17.0M · 139 accts · $1.4M emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$3,422
Total administrative$3,422
The Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$13,885
Median for plans this size$2,416
2024$13,885 per active participant
2023$14,110 per active participant
2022$8,505 per active participant

Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative's 2024 employer contribution ran above the $2,416 median for plans its size, placing it in the top 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
PRINCIPAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY · Contract administrator · Loan processing$3,422

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

Administrative cost history3
2024$3,422 · 0.01%
2023$2,767 · 0.01%
2022$16,073 · 0.08%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 410997475 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.