Hormel Foods Corporation Tax Deferred Investment Plan A *
Hormel Foods Corporation · Austin, MN · EIN 410319970 · Plan 050 · Form 5500 for plan year 2024
What Hormel Foods put into the plan, per active participant
$4,149
Hormel Foods Corporation put $4,149 into this plan for each of its 4,987 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.
Hormel Foods put in more per active participant than 66% of plans with 5,000+ participants in food, beverage and tobacco manufacturing. The middle plan in that group of 72 reported $2,804. Food, beverage and tobacco comes from business code 311610, which Hormel Foods Corporation 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 Hormel Foods 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 September 19, 2025 · DOL EFAST2 ↗
What the plan cost, per participant
$59.26
The plan paid $59.26 per participant in plan-paid administrative expenses in plan year 2024, more expensive than 54% 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
60 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: $4,149. Higher than 66% of plans with 5,000+ participants in food, beverage and tobacco manufacturing.
- What the plan cost, per participant: $59.26. Cheaper than 46% 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 Hormel Foods puts in
Not stated in the filing
Only part of the match formula is disclosed in the filing, so the yearly dollars cannot be computed from it.
Two places state the terms in full: your plan’s Summary Plan Description, which your employer must provide on request, and your recordkeeper’s site, which for this plan is Empower ↗.
What you contribute to collect all of it
Not stated in the filing
The filing does not state the contribution rate that collects the full employer contribution.
Vesting score
57.14 out of 100
How fast the employer’s money becomes yours. Higher than 4% of the 253 schedules we have scored.
It measures vesting speed and nothing else. It says nothing about the size of the match, what the plan charges, or the funds inside it.
Share of the employer's money that is the worker's at hire and at each of the first 6 anniversaries: 0%, 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, 100%, 100%. The score is the average of those 7 readings.
Vesting, word for word
“Vesting - Participant contributions are fully vested immediately. Participants generally become 100% vested after five years of vesting service (20% per year) in the employer matching contributions and fixed incentive contributions.”
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
54th percentile
$59.26 per participant in plan-paid administrative cost, more expensive than 54% of plans with 5,000+ participants.
The match, vesting and eligibility terms above are read from the Form 11-K filed by Hormel Foods Corporation, 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 Capital Accumulation Plan.
What to check next
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 Empower ↗. 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 | $1,160,623,275 |
|---|---|
| Net assets | $1,160,623,275 |
| Participants, beginning of year | 7,305 |
| Of which active | 4,987 |
| 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 $47,299,719. 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. | 30% |
Plan-paid administrative expenses
The plan paid $432,904 in administrative expenses in plan year 2024, across 7,305 participants: $59.26 per participant.
| Contract administrator fees | $0 |
|---|---|
| Professional fees | not reported in filing |
| Investment management fees | $31,500 |
| Other administrative fees | $6,800 |
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 Minnesota, one of 1,484 plans on file there, at a median of $133.83 per participant. Its business code places the plan in food, beverage and tobacco manufacturing, one of 1,356 on file, which run to a median of $108.05.
Plans of a similar size in Minnesota
| Plan | Participants | Cost per participant |
|---|---|---|
| UFCW Local Union 1189 And St. Paul Food Employers Defined Contribution PlanTrustees Of UFCW Local Union 1189 And St. Paul Food Employers Def Cont | 7,325 | $82.02 |
| Api Group, Inc. 401(k) & Profit Sharing PlanApi Group, Inc. | 7,311 | $80.02 |
| Marsden Retirement Savings PlanMarsden Services, L.L.C. | 6,718 | $15.97 |
| Procare Hr Retirement Savings PlanProcare Hr Corporation I | 6,627 | $83.25 |
Service providers (Schedule C)
Recordkeeper: Empower (as filed: “EMPOWER ANNUITY INSURANCE COMPANY”)
7,876 plans on file name Empower as their recordkeeper, at a median of $165.69 per participant.
| Provider | Service codes | Direct comp. ($) | Indirect comp. ($) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Empower Annuity Insurance Company | 63, 62, 64, 60, 50 | 354,121 | 0 |
| Meketa Fiduciary Management LLC | 27 | 158,186 | not reported |
| State Street Global Advisors Trust | 27 | 31,500 | not reported |
| Ernst & Young US LLP | 10 | 30,498 | not reported |
| Dorsey & Whitney LLP | 29 | 9,985 | not reported |
| Van Iwaarden Associates | 49 | 6,800 | not reported |
| Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. | 71, 59, 50, 33 | 1,127 | 0 |
Useful links
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Source
| Dataset | DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 bulk data (FOIA) |
|---|---|
| Form year | 2024 |
| Filing ACK_ID | 20250919134842NAL0001104899001 |
| Dataset last refreshed | July 28, 2026 |
Bulk dataset at askebsa.dol.gov ↗ · Look up the filing on EFAST2 ↗
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Cite this page
401(k) Monitor, "Hormel Foods Corporation Tax Deferred Investment Plan A *: Form 5500 facts", from DOL EFAST2 filing 20250919134842NAL0001104899001, plan year ended December 31, 2024. 401(k) Monitor Score 60 out of 100 (exact value 60.02).