Hni Corporation 401(k) Plan
Hni Corporation · Muscatine, IA · EIN 420617510 · Plan 001 · Form 5500 for plan year 2024
What HNI put into the plan, per active participant
$3,727
HNI CORP put $3,727 into this plan for each of its 6,819 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.
HNI put in less per active participant than 60% 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 337000, which HNI CORP 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 HNI 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 June 30, 2025 · DOL EFAST2 ↗
What the plan cost, per participant
$54.32
The plan paid $54.32 per participant in plan-paid administrative expenses in plan year 2024, cheaper than 51% 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
43 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: $3,727. Lower than 60% of plans with 5,000+ participants in medical devices and other manufacturing.
- What the plan cost, per participant: $54.32. Cheaper than 51% 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 HNI puts in
Not stated in the filing
The filing does not disclose a match formula.
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 Fidelity NetBenefits ↗.
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
100 out of 100
How fast the employer’s money becomes yours. Higher than 48% 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: 100%, 100%, 100%, 100%, 100%, 100%, 100%. The score is the average of those 7 readings.
Vesting, word for word
“New participants in the Plan generally will be immediately vested in their entire account. All other participants with active accounts are fully vested in their entire account; however, amounts held in the Outdoor Greatroom (OG) Plan Matching Account and OG Nonelective Account and the Kimball International Retirement Plan (KII) effective as of their respective merger dates are subject to the vesting schedules shown below:”
The plan tops the match up after year end, so contributing unevenly through the year does not cost the worker part of it.
The same match paragraph, word for word
“Certain subsidiaries/divisions provide Employer matching contributions. The Company made Employer matching contributions, net of forfeitures, of $25,576,016 for the 2025 plan year, plus minor prior-year true-up contributions of $8,348.”
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
49th percentile
$54.32 per participant in plan-paid administrative cost, cheaper than 51% of plans with 5,000+ participants.
The match, vesting and eligibility terms above are read from the Form 11-K filed by HNI CORP, 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 HNI Corporation 401(k) 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 Fidelity NetBenefits ↗. 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 | $1,467,045,204 |
|---|---|
| Net assets | $1,467,045,204 |
| Participants, beginning of year | 9,877 |
| Of which active | 6,819 |
| 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 $39,359,905. 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. | 39% |
Plan-paid administrative expenses
The plan paid $536,561 in administrative expenses in plan year 2024, across 9,877 participants: $54.32 per participant.
| Contract administrator fees | $0 |
|---|---|
| Professional fees | not reported in filing |
| Investment management fees | $122,835 |
| Other administrative fees | $33,080 |
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 Iowa, one of 657 plans on file there, at a median of $172.99 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 Iowa
| Plan | Participants | Cost per participant |
|---|---|---|
| The Principal Select Savings PlanPrincipal Financial Group, Inc. | 17,890 | $56.64 |
| Transamerica 401(k) Retirement Savings PlanTransamerica Corporation | 14,754 | $0.73 |
| Thrivewise Pooled Employer PlanPrincipal Life Insurance Company | 9,867 | $186.19 |
| Midamerican Energy Company Retirement Savings PlanMidamerican Energy Company | 7,856 | $61.02 |
Service providers (Schedule C)
Recordkeeper: Fidelity Investments (as filed: “FIDELITY INVESTMENTS INSTITUTIONAL”)
10,593 plans on file name Fidelity Investments as their recordkeeper, at a median of $97.71 per participant.
| Provider | Service codes | Direct comp. ($) | Indirect comp. ($) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments Institutional | 65, 71, 64, 60, 37 | 321,495 | 0 |
| Capfinancial Partners, LLC. | 27 | 122,835 | not reported |
| Fgmk, LLC | 10 | 68,000 | not reported |
| Economic Group Pension Services, I | 49 | 22,830 | not reported |
| Baker Tilly US, LLP | 49 | 10,250 | not reported |
Useful links
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Source
| Dataset | DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 bulk data (FOIA) |
|---|---|
| Form year | 2024 |
| Filing ACK_ID | 20250630155408NAL0006666227001 |
| Dataset last refreshed | July 28, 2026 |
Bulk dataset at askebsa.dol.gov ↗ · Look up the filing on EFAST2 ↗
Filings lag by design: a plan can file up to 9½ months after its year ends, so this is the newest data on file. Why filings lag
Cite this page
401(k) Monitor, "Hni Corporation 401(k) Plan: Form 5500 facts", from DOL EFAST2 filing 20250630155408NAL0006666227001, plan year ended December 31, 2024. 401(k) Monitor Score 43 out of 100 (exact value 43.18).