Stanley Black & Decker Retirement Account Plan
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. · New Britain, CT · EIN 060548860 · Plan 009 · Form 5500 for plan year 2024
What Stanley Black & Decker put into the plan, per active participant
$2,171
Stanley Black & Decker put $2,171 into this plan for each of its 16,084 active participants in plan year 2024. That is the whole employer side, matching money, profit sharing, non-elective and safe-harbor contributions and reallocated forfeitures together, because the Form 5500 reports them on one line, so it is not the match rate.
Stanley Black & Decker put in less per active participant than 81% of plans with 5,000+ participants in medical devices and other manufacturing. The middle plan in that group of 81 reported $4,432. Medical devices and other manufacturing comes from business code 339900, which Stanley Black & Decker entered on its own Form 5500. Sponsors pick that code themselves, so a code that does not describe what the employer does ranks the plan against the wrong companies.
What this figure cannot separate: how much Stanley Black & Decker pays, and how much it puts in
This is dollars, not a rate. A Form 5500 carries no payroll, so the figure reflects both how much the employer puts in and how much the employer pays: two plans running the same formula report different amounts when one pays better. Crossing the peer group with industry holds most of that difference still, and none of it disappears.
This is one plan year, not an average. A true-up, a plan merger or a one-off contribution moves a single year on its own.
Source: Form 5500 filing for the plan year ended December 31, 2024, received by the DOL July 29, 2025 · DOL EFAST2 ↗
The $2,171 above is the Form 5500 figure for plan year 2024, and it counts every employer dollar on one line. Stanley Black & Decker also files a Form 11-K, which states the match formula on its own for plan year 2025: the section below reads $1,733 a year at a $49,500 salary, and the same filing states employer contributions made outside the match. That second figure is what the formula pays one worker on that salary, and not an amount either filing reports. The two figures cover different plan years and measure different things, so neither one is the other one corrected.
What the plan cost, per participant
$74.15
The plan paid $74.15 per participant in plan-paid administrative expenses in plan year 2024, more expensive than 67% of plans with 5,000+ participants. The middle plan of that size paid $54.84.
Why a plan this big pays less per person before anything else
Bigger plans pay less per head by construction, because the same negotiated bill divides across more people. That is why this ranking sits inside the plan's own size cohort and is never taken across all plans.
Schedule H reports only what came out of plan assets. Fees the sponsor pays directly, and fees taken inside fund expense ratios, never appear here, so this is a floor and not the all-in cost.
401(k) Monitor Score
23 out of 100
Where this plan stands against plans of its size and industry on two amounts its Form 5500 reports: employer money in per active person, and plan-paid cost per person. It reads no match formula, no vesting schedule and no fund lineup, because a Form 5500 states none of them.
- What the employer put in, per active participant: $2,171. Lower than 81% of plans with 5,000+ participants in medical devices and other manufacturing.
- What the plan cost, per participant: $74.15. Cheaper than 33% of plans with 5,000+ participants.
On this page: the match and vesting terms · what to check next · every figure on the filing · fees itemised · the plans this one is ranked against · service providers
The match and vesting terms, from a Form 11-K
The match formula and the vesting schedule are stated in a Form 11-K, which is filed only by employers whose plan holds company stock. A Form 5500 reports neither.
What Stanley Black & Decker puts in
$1,733
a year, at a $49,500 salary.
The match paragraph, word for word
“A participant’s Choice Account is automatically credited with matching allocations with respect to a payroll cycle equal to 50% of the participant’s pre-tax and/or Roth contributions for the payroll cycle credited to such account, taking into account only pre-tax and Roth contributions that, when combined, do not exceed 7% of compensation for the payroll cycle. Therefore, the maximum matching allocation with respect to a participant’s pre-tax and Roth contributions combined for a payroll cycle is 3.5% of the participant’s compensation for such payroll cycle with certain exceptions to this limit specified in the Plan document. “Catch-up” contributions are not eligible for matching allocations.”
What you contribute to collect all of it
Contribute at least 7% of your pay to collect the full match.
That is $3,465 a year at a $49,500 salary, and it scales with your own.
Vesting score
Not scored
The filing states a cliff but not how many years it runs.
A schedule this cannot read at whole-year anniversaries is left without a number rather than given a middle one.
The filing states a cliff but not how many years it runs.
Vesting, word for word
“Participants are fully vested in their own contributions and earnings thereon and amounts transferred or rolled over from other qualified plans on their behalf. Participants are vested in their matching allocations and Core Account allocations based on their number of years of service. Generally, allocations vest 100% after three or five years of service, with different vesting schedules applicable depending on the participant’s dates of employment.”
The wait before the match starts and the year-end true-up appear above when the filing states them. Neither is part of the score, and a filing that is silent on one of them is not a plan without it.
What the plan costs, against plans of its size
67th percentile
$74.15 per participant in plan-paid administrative cost, more expensive than 67% of plans with 5,000+ participants.
The match, vesting and eligibility terms above are read from the Form 11-K filed by Stanley Black & Decker, whose page states the full formula, the vesting schedule and the sentence behind each one.
Matched to this employer by sponsor name, not by an identifier stated in the filing. That Form 11-K covers Stanley Black & Decker Retirement Account Plan.
What to check next
Collecting the whole match
Stanley Black & Decker’s Form 11-K pays the whole match at 7% of pay, which is $1,733 a year at a $49,500 salary and scales with your own. Your payslip and your Principal ↗ account both show the rate you set. A rate below 7% collects less than the whole match.
That Form 11-K covers plan year 2025. The plan’s Summary Plan Description states the terms in force, and the plan administrator must provide it to participants on request.
Your own numbers are not on this page
Every figure here is the whole plan for plan year 2024, taken from one filing and divided by headcounts. Your own contribution rate, your balance and the fees taken from your account are on your recordkeeper’s site, which this filing names as Principal ↗. What you may put in during a year is set by the IRS and not by the plan: this year’s limits ↗.
Key figures
| Total plan assets, end of year | $2,467,327,986 |
|---|---|
| Net assets | $2,467,225,247 |
| Participants, beginning of year | 31,193 |
| Of which active | 16,084 |
| Plan type | Single employer |
| Size cohortThe peer group we rank fees against. | 5,000+ participants |
| Employer share of the money that went in, plan year 2024The rest came from employees, who put in $89,326,683. The share falls when employees save more, so a plan whose staff contribute heavily reads lower here through no act of the employer. It is printed as a fact and it is not part of the score. | 28% |
Plan-paid administrative expenses
The plan paid $2,312,904 in administrative expenses in plan year 2024, across 31,193 participants: $74.15 per participant.
| Contract administrator fees | $1,245,961 |
|---|---|
| Professional fees | not reported in filing |
| Investment management fees | not reported in filing |
| Other administrative fees | $1,066,943 |
These are plan-paid expenses from Schedule H only. Fees the sponsor pays directly, and fees embedded in fund expense ratios, never appear here. This figure is a floor, not the all-in cost, and a low number is not “free”.
The plans this one is ranked against
Fees on this page are ranked against the 5,000+ participant cohort, where the median plan pays $54.84 per participant. The sponsor files from Connecticut, one of 828 plans on file there, at a median of $116.34 per participant. Its business code places the plan in medical devices and other manufacturing, one of 1,455 on file, which run to a median of $125.72.
Plans of a similar size in Connecticut
| Plan | Participants | Cost per participant |
|---|---|---|
| Hartford Healthcare 401(k) Retirement PlanHartford Healthcare Corporation | 34,203 | $70.56 |
| Yale-New Haven Hospital And Tax-Exempt Affliliates Retirement Savings PlanYale-New Haven Hospital, Inc. | 31,362 | $15.93 |
| The Hartford Investment And Savings PlanHartford Fire Insurance Company | 31,128 | $237.34 |
| United Rentals 401(k) Investment PlanUnited Rentals (North America), Inc. | 27,037 | $63.56 |
Service providers (Schedule C)
Recordkeeper: Principal (as filed: “PRINCIPAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY”)
5,239 plans on file name Principal as their recordkeeper, at a median of $170.05 per participant.
| Provider | Service codes | Direct comp. ($) | Indirect comp. ($) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Principal Life Insurance Company | 64, 50, 37, 13 | 1,279,289 | 0 |
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Source
| Dataset | DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 bulk data (FOIA) |
|---|---|
| Form year | 2024 |
| Filing ACK_ID | 20250729083806NAL0006830290001 |
| Dataset last refreshed | July 28, 2026 |
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Cite this page
401(k) Monitor, "Stanley Black & Decker Retirement Account Plan: Form 5500 facts", from DOL EFAST2 filing 20250729083806NAL0006830290001, plan year ended December 31, 2024. 401(k) Monitor Score 23 out of 100 (exact value 23.09).