401(k) Monitor

Eci, Inc. Profit Sharing & 401(k) Plan

Engineers & Constructors International, Inc. · Baton Rouge, LA · EIN 760304172 · Plan 001 · Form 5500 for plan year 2024

What Engineers & Constructors International put into the plan, per active participant

$3,506

Engineers & Constructors International, Inc. put $3,506 into this plan for each of its 85 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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Engineers & Constructors International put in more per active participant than 53% of plans with 100–499 participants at law, consulting and engineering firms. The middle plan in that group of 4,512 reported $3,307. Law, consulting and engineering comes from business code 541330, which Engineers & Constructors International, 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 Engineers & Constructors International 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 2, 2025 · DOL EFAST2

What the plan cost, per participant

$76.30

The plan paid $76.30 per participant in plan-paid administrative expenses in plan year 2024, cheaper than 70% 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

58 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: $3,506. Higher than 53% of plans with 100–499 participants at law, consulting and engineering firms.
  • What the plan cost, per participant: $76.30. Cheaper than 70% 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 Engineers & Constructors International 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 Empower.

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

30th percentile

$76.30 per participant in plan-paid administrative cost, cheaper than 70% of plans with 100–499 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 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

From Schedule H of Form 5500 filing 20251002093726NAL0000270801001, plan year 2024.
Total plan assets, end of year$11,014,824
Net assets$11,014,824
Participants, beginning of year286
Of which active85
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 $910,633. 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.25%

Plan-paid administrative expenses

The plan paid $21,822 in administrative expenses in plan year 2024, across 286 participants: $76.30 per participant.

Contract administrator fees$0
Professional feesnot reported in filing
Investment management fees$4,801
Other administrative fees$14,684

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 Louisiana, one of 611 plans on file there, at a median of $115.89 per participant. Its business code places the plan at law, consulting and engineering firms, one of 7,635 on file, which run to a median of $152.18.

Plans of a similar size in Louisiana

The plans nearest this one by participant count, out of 432 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
Comtec Consultants, Inc. 401(k) PlanComtec Consultants, Inc.290not itemized
Louisiana Workers' Compensation Corporation 401(k) Savings PlanLouisiana Workers' Compensation Corporation289$279.99
Rotorcraft Leasing 401(k) PlanRotorcraft Leasing Company, LLC285$102.47
Bensco Of Louisiana, LLC 401(k) PlanBensco Of Louisiana, LLC285$113.29

Service providers (Schedule C)

Recordkeeper: Empower (as filed: “EMPOWER ANNUITY INSURANCE COMPANY O”)

7,876 plans on file name Empower as their recordkeeper, at a median of $165.69 per participant.

Providers from Schedule C, Part 1, Item 2 of filing 20251002093726NAL0000270801001. Direct compensation is paid from plan assets. Amounts in USD.
ProviderService codesDirect comp. ($)Indirect comp. ($)
Acec Retirement Trust9914,684not reported
Empower Advisory Group, LLC284,801not reported
Empower Annuity Insurance Company O642,3380

Source

DatasetDOL EFAST2 Form 5500 bulk data (FOIA)
Form year2024
Filing ACK_ID20251002093726NAL0000270801001
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, "Eci, Inc. Profit Sharing & 401(k) Plan: Form 5500 facts", from DOL EFAST2 filing 20251002093726NAL0000270801001, plan year ended December 31, 2024. 401(k) Monitor Score 58 out of 100 (exact value 58.4).