Medical devices and other manufacturing 401(k) plans

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.

All 1,455 medical devices and other manufacturing plans on file are listed below by size, and every one of them is searchable from the home page.

The table above is the top of the list. These 7 pages hold all 1,455 plans on file in medical devices and other manufacturing, split by how many people are in them, each ranked by active participants.

• 100 to 499 participants · 931 plans

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• 500 to 999 participants · 219 plans
• 1,000 to 4,999 participants · 220 plans
• 5,000 or more participants · 85 plans

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.

• Becton, Dickinson and Company

  75% of the first 6% of pay

• Boston Scientific Corporation

  200% of the first 2% of pay, then 50% of the next 4% of pay

• KENNAMETAL INC

  100% (dollar-for-dollar) of the first 6% of pay

• Kimberly-Clark Corporation

  100% (dollar-for-dollar) of the first 5% of pay

• LEGGETT & PLATT INC

  50% of contributions (matched-pay ceiling not stated in the filing) (partly disclosed)

• Textron

  50% of the first 10% of pay

Furniture and miscellaneous manufacturing (codes 337000 to 339999), which includes medical equipment and supplies (339110). Sponsors here include Boston Scientific, Becton Dickinson and Textron.

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 (1,386 of 1,455 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 9, 2026; source dataset last refreshed July 28, 2026. Full methodology