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Steel Dynamics, Inc.401(k)

STEEL DYNAMICS, INC. PROFIT SHARING AND RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN · FORT WAYNE, IN · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.02%

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

Steel Dynamics, Inc. reported $589,616 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.02% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $18,382 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 0.06% to 0.02%. 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 5th-largest of 1,562 plans among Indiana employers on file, and the 114th of 13,661 in manufacturing. In 2024, the employer put in $1.87 for every $1.00 employees contributed themselves; active participation has grown from 9,015 to 10,140 since 2022.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$2,996,436,059
Participants with balances12,153
Active participants10,140
Employer contributions$186,393,714
Employee contributions$99,442,670
Employer contribution per active participant$18,382
Average account balance$246,559
Benefits paid to participants$207,503,124
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
AuditorHAINES, ISENBARGER & SKIBA, LLC
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$3.0B · 12,153 accts · $186.4M emplr
2023$2.6B · 11,362 accts · $248.2M emplr
2022$2.0B · 10,878 accts · $319.6M emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$428,808
Investment management$160,808
Total administrative$589,616
The Steel Dynamics, Inc. 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$18,382
Median for plans this size$5,259
2024$18,382 per active participant
2023$26,446 per active participant
2022$35,457 per active participant

Steel Dynamics, Inc.'s 2024 employer contribution ran above the $5,259 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
JOHN HANCOCK RETIREMENT PLAN SRVCS · Recordkeeping · Loan processing$589,618

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

Recordkeeper by year2
2024John Hancock
2023John Hancock

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Administrative cost history3
2024$589,616 · 0.02%
2023$692,729 · 0.03%
2022$1,212,725 · 0.06%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 351929476 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.