Stearns Financial Services, Inc.ESOP
STEARNS FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC. EMPLOYEE STOCK OWNERSHIP PLAN · ST. CLOUD, MN · plan year 2024
Peer grade: A- · admin costs + employer contributions vs same-size plans · how grading works
Stearns Financial Services, Inc. reported $31,971 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.03% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $5,297 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 0.033% to 0.028%. The plan sits in the $50M–$250M size bracket, benchmarked here against 10,352 comparable plans and shown alongside other finance & insurance employers. By assets it is the 234th-largest of 1,918 plans among Minnesota employers on file, and the 850th of 4,798 in finance & insurance.
Stearns Financial Services, Inc.'s 2024 employer contribution ran above the $3,635 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 2024 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 411655119 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.