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Babcock & Wilcox Company401(k)

THE B & W THRIFT PLAN · AKRON, OH · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.04%

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

Babcock & Wilcox Company reported $157,514 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.04% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $4,155 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 0.04%. The plan sits in the $250M–$1B size bracket, benchmarked here against 2,883 comparable plans and shown alongside other manufacturing employers. By assets it is the 115th-largest of 3,295 plans among Ohio employers on file, and the 613th of 13,661 in manufacturing. In 2024, employees put in $2.41 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has grown from 887 to 994 since 2022.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$457,428,680
Participants with balances1,868
Active participants994
Employer contributions$4,129,993
Employee contributions$9,955,007
Employer contribution per active participant$4,155
Average account balance$244,876
Benefits paid to participants$47,978,068
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$457.4M · 1,868 accts · $4.1M emplr
2023$434.0M · 1,883 accts · $4.2M emplr
2022$400.7M · 1,681 accts · $3.1M emplr
The Babcock & Wilcox Company 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$4,155
Median for plans this size$4,294
2024$4,155 per active participant
2023$4,327 per active participant
2022$3,527 per active participant

Babcock & Wilcox Company's 2024 employer contribution ran below the $4,294 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.

What these fees cost you

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 · 20244
THE VANGUARD GROUP, INC. · Recordkeeping · Consulting$127,403
FORVIS · Legal$15,000
TROUTMAN SANDERS LLP · Legal$12,403
VANGUARD ADVISERS INC. · Investment advisory (participants)$5,548

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

Recordkeeper by year2
2024Vanguard
2023Vanguard

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Administrative cost history3
2024$157,514 · 0.04%
2023$243,066 · 0.06%
2022$243,590 · 0.06%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 132933685 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.