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Steel Art Company, Inc.401(k)

STEEL ART COMPANY, INC. 401(K) RETIREMENT PLAN · NORWOOD, MA · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
1.00%

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

Steel Art Company, Inc. reported $29,699 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 1.00% of average plan assets, higher than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $1,306 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 rose from 0.68% to 1.00%. The plan sits in the $1M–$10M size bracket, benchmarked here against 18,840 comparable plans and shown alongside other manufacturing employers. By assets it is among the smaller plans on file in Massachusetts (2,471st of 2,726), and 12,170th of 13,661 in manufacturing. In 2024, employees put in $2.03 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has grown from 103 to 119 since 2022.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$3,201,819
Participants with balances75
Active participants119
Employer contributions$155,385
Employee contributions$315,146
Employer contribution per active participant$1,306
Average account balance$42,691
Benefits paid to participants$336,528
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
AuditorW.A. LEONARD & COMPANY, P.C.
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$3.2M · 75 accts · $155K emplr
2023$2.7M · 80 accts · $140K emplr
2022$2.8M · 73 accts · $112K emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$29,699
Total administrative$29,699
The Steel Art Company, Inc. 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$1,306
Median for plans this size$1,313
2024$1,306 per active participant
2023$1,323 per active participant
2022$1,084 per active participant

Steel Art Company, Inc.'s 2024 employer contribution ran below the $1,313 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.

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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 · 20242
ADP, INC · Recordkeeping · Loan processing$13,171
ROYAL ALLIANCE ASSOCIATES, INC · Recordkeeping · Trustee$8,264

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

Recordkeeper by year2
2024ADP, ROYAL ALLIANCE ASSOCIATES, INC
2023John Hancock

This plan has changed recordkeepers within these filings. If you left Steel Art Company, Inc. before a switch, your account may sit at the earlier firm or in a rollover IRA. Looking for an account from a past job here? How to find an old 401(k).

Administrative cost history3
2024$29,699 · 1.00%
2023$20,279 · 0.73%
2022$20,697 · 0.68%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 042309230 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.