401(k) Monitor

Peterson Contractors, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan

Peterson Contractors, Inc. · Reinbeck, IA · EIN 420921654 · Plan 002 · Form 5500 for plan year 2024

What Peterson Contractors put into the plan, per active participant

$12,284

Peterson Contractors, Inc. put $12,284 into this plan for each of its 699 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.

0 · least per person100 · most per person

Peterson Contractors put in more per active participant than 98% of plans with 500–999 participants in construction. The middle plan in that group of 418 reported $1,828. Construction comes from business code 238900, which Peterson Contractors, Inc. 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 Peterson Contractors 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 15, 2025 · DOL EFAST2

What the plan cost, per participant

$103.86

The plan paid $103.86 per participant in plan-paid administrative expenses in plan year 2024, cheaper than 55% of plans with 500–999 participants. The middle plan of that size paid $114.97.

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

85 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: $12,284. Higher than 98% of plans with 500–999 participants in construction.
  • What the plan cost, per participant: $104. Cheaper than 55% of plans with 500–999 participants.

How this score is built

On this page: where the match terms are stated · 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 Peterson Contractors puts in

Not in public filings for this employer

We have no SEC Form 11-K for this employer, and the Form 5500 this page is built from does not report match terms.

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 Vanguard.

What you contribute to collect all of it

Not in public filings for this employer

The rate that collects the full match is part of the match formula, which a Form 5500 does not report.

Vesting score

Not scored

The vesting schedule is stated in a Form 11-K, and we have none for this employer.

A schedule this cannot read at whole-year anniversaries is left without a number rather than given a middle one.

The formula, the six-year window and a worked example

What the plan costs, against plans of its size

45th percentile

$103.86 per participant in plan-paid administrative cost, cheaper than 55% of plans with 500–999 participants.

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 Vanguard. What you may put in during a year is set by the IRS and not by the plan: this year’s limits ↗.

Key figures

From Schedule H of Form 5500 filing 20250715142455NAL0002200193001, plan year 2024.
Total plan assets, end of year$76,402,974
Net assets$76,402,974
Participants, beginning of year952
Of which active699
Plan typeSingle employer
Size cohortThe peer group we rank fees against.500–999 participants
Employer share of the money that went in, plan year 2024One of the two contribution lines is blank on this filing. A blank employee line against a filled employer line would read as every dollar coming from the employer, which is a gap in the filing rather than a fact about the plan, so no share is shown.not stated on this filing

Plan-paid administrative expenses

The plan paid $98,875 in administrative expenses in plan year 2024, across 952 participants: $103.86 per participant.

Contract administrator feesnot reported in filing
Professional feesnot reported in filing
Investment management feesnot reported in filing
Other administrative fees$98,875

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 500–999 participant cohort, where the median plan pays $114.97 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 construction, one of 3,507 on file, which run to a median of $166.95.

Plans of a similar size in Iowa

The plans nearest this one by participant count, out of 108 in its peer group. Cost per participant is each plan’s own Schedule H figure, and a filing that reported no administrative expenses says so instead of showing a zero.
PlanParticipantsCost per participant
The Restated Thrift/Profit Sharing Plan For CooperativesHeartland Co-Op971$72.95
Impactlife 401(k) PlanImpactlife955$155.01
Palfinger U.S.A. Retirement Profit Sharing PlanOmaha Standard, LLC949$201.74
Efco Contribution & 401(k) PlanEfco Corp.941$56.13

Service providers (Schedule C)

Recordkeeper: Vanguard (as filed: “THE VANGUARD GROUP, INC.”)

2,337 plans on file name Vanguard as their recordkeeper, at a median of $97.87 per participant.

Providers from Schedule C, Part 1, Item 2 of filing 20250715142455NAL0002200193001. Direct compensation is paid from plan assets. Amounts in USD.
ProviderService codesDirect comp. ($)Indirect comp. ($)
The Vanguard Group, Inc.99, 25, 52, 16, 38, 1598,8750

Source

DatasetDOL EFAST2 Form 5500 bulk data (FOIA)
Form year2024
Filing ACK_ID20250715142455NAL0002200193001
Dataset last refreshedJuly 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, "Peterson Contractors, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan: Form 5500 facts", from DOL EFAST2 filing 20250715142455NAL0002200193001, plan year ended December 31, 2024. 401(k) Monitor Score 85 out of 100 (exact value 85.25).