401(k) Monitor

Vinton Steel, LLC 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan

Vinton Steel, LLC · El Paso, TX · EIN 742857200 · Plan 002 · Form 5500 for plan year 2024

What Vinton Steel put into the plan, per active participant

$2,727

Vinton Steel, LLC put $2,727 into this plan for each of its 375 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.

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Vinton Steel put in more per active participant than 73% of plans with 100–499 participants in industrial and materials manufacturing. The middle plan in that group of 3,606 reported $1,825. Industrial and materials manufacturing comes from business code 331110, which Vinton Steel, LLC 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 Vinton Steel 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 October 13, 2025 · DOL EFAST2

What the plan cost, per participant

$421.54

The plan paid $421.54 per participant in plan-paid administrative expenses in plan year 2024, more expensive than 92% of plans with 100–499 participants. The middle plan of that size paid $156.87.

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

53 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: $2,727. Higher than 73% of plans with 100–499 participants in industrial and materials manufacturing.
  • What the plan cost, per participant: $422. Cheaper than 8% of plans with 100–499 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 Vinton Steel 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 ADP (MyKplan).

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

92nd percentile

$421.54 per participant in plan-paid administrative cost, more expensive than 92% of plans with 100–499 participants.

What to check next

  • What to ask about the fees

    This plan paid $421.54 per participant out of plan assets, more than 92% of plans with 100–499 participants, where the middle plan paid $156.87. The filing does not say what the difference buys. Two questions put that to a benefits or HR team: what the recordkeeping and administration contract costs, and how much of it comes out of participant accounts rather than being paid by Vinton Steel. The lines this total is made of are further down.

  • 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 ADP (MyKplan). 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 20251013050837NAL0000704721001, plan year 2024.
Total plan assets, end of year$16,810,296
Net assets$16,810,296
Participants, beginning of year414
Of which active375
Plan typeSingle employer
Size cohortThe peer group we rank fees against.100–499 participants
Employer share of the money that went in, plan year 2024The rest came from employees, who put in $1,271,743. 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.45%

Plan-paid administrative expenses

The plan paid $174,516 in administrative expenses in plan year 2024, across 414 participants: $421.54 per participant.

Contract administrator feesnot reported in filing
Professional feesnot reported in filing
Investment management fees$63,966
Other administrative feesnot reported in filing

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 100–499 participant cohort, where the median plan pays $156.87 per participant. The sponsor files from Texas, one of 4,254 plans on file there, at a median of $107.93 per participant. Its business code places the plan in industrial and materials manufacturing, one of 6,008 on file, which run to a median of $142.19.

Plans of a similar size in Texas

The plans nearest this one by participant count, out of 2,604 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
United Fashions Of Texas 401(k) PlanUnited Fashions Of Texas LLC490$108.28
Mayfair Management Group, Lp 401(k) PlanMayfair Management Group, Lp414$45.71
Midtex Oil, Lp 401(k) Profit Sharing PlanMidtex Oil, Lp414$96.36
Saferide Health 401(k) PlanSaferide, Inc.414not itemized
Hts Engineering, Ltd 401(k) PlanHeat Transfer Solutions, Inc.413$31.11

Service providers (Schedule C)

Recordkeeper: ADP (as filed: “ADP, INC.”)

2,668 plans on file name ADP as their recordkeeper, at a median of $67.86 per participant.

Providers from Schedule C, Part 1, Item 2 of filing 20251013050837NAL0000704721001. Direct compensation is paid from plan assets. Amounts in USD.
ProviderService codesDirect comp. ($)Indirect comp. ($)
Adp, Inc.50, 37, 64, 15110,5500
Resources Investment Advisors, Inc.64, 99, 50, 15, 49, 70, 21, 1753,9660
Da Defense Logistics 401(k) Plan70, 50, 64, 17, 1510,0000
Peggy S. Edge Cpa LLC70, 50, 64, 17, 159,0000
Crescendo Retirement Plan Advisors,64, 99, 50, 15, 49, 70, 21, 176,3440

Source

DatasetDOL EFAST2 Form 5500 bulk data (FOIA)
Form year2024
Filing ACK_ID20251013050837NAL0000704721001
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, "Vinton Steel, LLC 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan: Form 5500 facts", from DOL EFAST2 filing 20251013050837NAL0000704721001, plan year ended December 31, 2024. 401(k) Monitor Score 53 out of 100 (exact value 53.49).