Media, telecom and information 401(k) plans

Name: Median plan-paid 401(k) administrative cost per participant, media, telecom and information
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The median 401(k) plan in media, telecom and information paid $121.00 per participant per year in plan-paid administrative fees, computed from 1,035 of the 1,108 media, telecom and information plans on file, form year 2024.

Computed from DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 bulk data, not surveys. All 57,824 large plans in the form-year-2024 data are read here, so the 1,108 plans in this industry are every plan of that size filed under its business codes. The median is taken over the 1,035 of them whose filing reports a plan-paid administrative cost, because a filing that reports none has no cost to rank. It still does not describe the whole industry: a plan with fewer than 100 participants files a shorter form and is not in this data at all.

$121.00

Median plan-paid administrative cost per participant per year among 1,035 media, telecom and information plans with usable fee data, form year 2024.

$1.17 below the $122.17 median across all published plans.

How do media, telecom and information 401(k) fees compare?

Media, telecom and information median$121.00

All published plans$122.17

Plan size drives fees more than industry does: bigger plans pay less per head. See median fees by plan size before reading an industry gap as an industry effect.

49 of the biggest media, telecom and information 401(k) plans

The media, telecom and information plans this site submits to search engines come first, then the rest; each group is ranked by active participants. Assets are Schedule H total assets at end of plan year. Fee is plan-paid admin cost per participant. Amounts in USD.
Plan	Sponsor	Active participants	Assets	Fee ($)
Google LLC 401(k) Savings Plan	Google LLC	114,321	$48.7B	17.58
Disney Hourly Savings And Investment Plan	Twdc Enterprises 18 Corp.	109,416	$1.6B	3.58
AT&T Retirement Savings Plan	AT&T Inc.	102,760	$43.1B	83.16
Charter Communications, Inc. 401(k) Savings Plan	Charter Communications, Inc.	94,858	$8.9B	n/a
T-Mobile USA, Inc. 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan & Trust	T-Mobile USA, Inc.	69,015	$9.1B	22.50
Verizon Savings Plan For Management Employees	Verizon Communications Inc.	63,563	$29.4B	444.54
Meta Platforms, Inc. 401(k) Plan	Meta Platforms, Inc.	58,603	$16.5B	2.63
Disney Savings And Investment Plan	Twdc Enterprises 18 Corp.	51,389	$12.7B	14.34
Cox Enterprises, Inc. 401(k) Plan	Cox Enterprises, Inc.	42,495	$8.1B	87.46
Entertainment Industry 401(k) Plan	Board Of Trustees, Entertainment Industry 401(k) Plan	30,812	$723.3M	64.88
AT&T Savings And Security Plan	AT&T Inc.	23,855	$2.3B	68.86
Lumen 401(k) Savings Plan	Lumen Technologies, Inc.	21,466	$7.3B	27.30
Dycom Industries, Inc. Retirement Savings Plan	Dycom Industries, Inc.	16,855	$403.3M	36.46
Paramount Global 401(k) Plan (Fka Viacomcbs 401(k) Plan)	Paramount Global	15,335	$6.4B	200.29
Hearst Retirement Savings Plan	The Hearst Corporation	14,291	$3.1B	n/a
Relx Inc. US Salary Investment Plan	Relx Inc.	13,644	$4.2B	84.89
Qualcomm Incorporated Employee Savings And Retirement Plan	Qualcomm Incorporated	13,500	$9.7B	18.02
Bytedance 401(k) Plan	Bytedance Inc.	12,861	$918.9M	10.34
Verizon Savings & Security Plan For New York And New England Associates	Verizon Communications Inc.	12,203	$5.8B	362.93
Dish Network Corporation 401(k) Plan	Dish Network Corporation	11,903	$1.6B	55.93
Verizon Savings Security Plan For Mid-Atlantic Associates	Verizon Communications Inc.	11,674	$3.4B	303.73
Bellsouth Savings And Security Plan	Bellsouth, LLC	11,259	$2.5B	75.75
Gartner Inc. Savings And Investment Plan	Gartner, Inc.	10,956	$2.7B	70.54
Fox Savings Plan	Fox Corporation	10,558	$2.5B	35.75
Communications Workers Of America Savings And Retirement Trust	The Board Of Trustees Of The Communications Workers Of America -	10,510	$453.3M	111.27
American Multi-Cinema, Inc. 401(k) Savings Plan	American Multi-Cinema, Inc.	10,187	$260.3M	36.05
Nbcuniversal Capital Accumulation Plan (Cap)	Nbcuniversal, LLC	8,982	$397.5M	27.19
Netflix 401(k) Plan	Netflix, Inc.	8,780	$2.3B	34.34
Iheart Media, Inc. 401(k) Savings Plan	Iheart Communications, Inc.	8,743	$1.4B	2.13
Wolters Kluwer 401(k) Plan	Wolters Kluwer United States, Inc.	8,693	$2.4B	112.15
Communications Test Design, Inc. 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan	Communications Test Design, Inc.	8,636	$408.9M	60.61
Windstream 401(k) Plan	Windstream Services LLC	8,623	$1.3B	45.97
Gray Television, Inc. Capital Accumulation Plan	Gray Media Inc.	8,554	$657.1M	110.51
Ciox Health 401(k) Plan	Ciox Health, LLC	8,445	$119.5M	70.38
Regal Entertainment Group 401(k) Plan	Regal Cinemas, Inc.	8,408	$182.7M	24.06
Thomson Reuters 401(k) Savings Plan	Thomson Reuters Holdings Inc.	8,130	$4.5B	117.06
Telephone And Data Systems, Inc. Tax-Deferred Savings Plan	Telephone And Data Systems, Inc.	8,123	$1.8B	129.58
News Corp 401(k) Savings Plan	Nc Transaction, Inc.	8,014	$3.7B	94.56
Iac Inc. Retirement Savings Plan	Iac Inc.	7,788	$1.6B	46.71
Sinclair, Inc. 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan	Sinclair, Inc.	7,072	$672.4M	30.36
Directv Retirement Savings Plan	Directv Entertainment Holdings LLC	7,057	$597.2M	64.68
Tegna 401(k) Savings Plan	Tegna Inc.	5,976	$995.4M	61.20
Local 52 401 (K) Fund	Board Of Trustees Of Local 52	5,441	$561.4M	95.48
Mitchell International, Inc. 401(k) Savings Plan	Mitchell International Inc.	5,250	$658.2M	125.11
Scholastic Corporation 401(k) Savings And Retirement Plan	Scholastic Corporation	5,007	$626.6M	56.71
Annuity Fund Of Stage Employees Local 4 Iatse	Bd Of Trustees Of The Annuity Fund Of Stage Employees Local 4 Iatse	4,897	$59.3M	29.56
Scripps Retirement And Investment Plan	E.W. Scripps Retirement & Investment Plan Committee	4,832	$873.7M	111.59
Sirius Xm Radio 401(k) Savings Plan	Sirius Xm Radio LLC	4,725	$1.0B	74.46
The Animation Guild 401(k) Plan	The Animation Guild, Local 839	4,649	$658.7M	89.05

The media, telecom and information plans with a page of their own are listed below by size, and the same set is findable by employer name from the search on the home page.

Every Media, telecom and information plan page, by size

The table above is the top of the list. These 3 pages hold the 58 published plan pages in media, telecom and information, out of 1,108 filings of that kind in the data, split by how many people are in them, each ranked by active participants.

Which media, telecom and information companies disclose their 401(k) match?

For these 6 employers we also read the SEC Form 11-K and extracted the match terms, matched to this industry by the plan’s EIN.

AT&T Inc.
Match formula not disclosed in the filing
LM Ericsson Telephone Co
100% (dollar-for-dollar) of the first 3% of pay, then 50% of the next 2% of pay
S&P Global
100% (dollar-for-dollar) of the first 4% of pay
TEGNA INC
100% (dollar-for-dollar) of the first 4% of pay
The Walt Disney Company
Could not be determined from the filing; see the source quote
Verizon Communications Inc.
Match terms set by collective-bargaining agreements; no single company-wide formula

Which employers count as media, telecom and information here?

The information sector (codes 511110 to 519999) excluding software publishers and data hosting, which sit in Software and IT services. Sponsors here include Comcast, Paramount and Thomson Reuters.

The code is the IRS principal business activity code the sponsor itself puts on Form 5500, line 2d. Medians count only plans whose Schedule H shows a positive plan-paid administrative expense (1,035 of 1,108 plans here). Plan-paid expenses exclude fund expense ratios and employer-paid bills, so every figure is a floor, not the all-in cost. Latest filing in this group received by the DOL July 21, 2026; source dataset last refreshed July 28, 2026. Full methodology

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401(k) Monitor, “Media, telecom and information 401(k) plans: median plan-paid administrative cost per participant”, computed from DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 bulk data, form year 2024.