401(k) Monitor

Alerus 401(k) plans and fees

Source: Schedule C of Form 5500 filings, form year 2024, DOL EFAST2 bulk data · DOL 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

Alerus recordkeeps 302 of the 50,598 large 401(k) plans with an identified recordkeeper in form-year-2024 Form 5500 filings, a 0.6% plan share covering 134,904 participants.

$167.81

Median plan-paid administrative cost per participant across the 302 published plans recordkept by Alerus with computable fee data, form-year-2024 filings.

$45.64 above the $122.17 median across all 54,783 published plans with fee data.

How many 401(k) plans does Alerus recordkeep?

Universe figures from Schedule C across all form-year-2024 filings; published figures from the 302 plans on 401(k) Monitor naming Alerus. Assets and participants as filed.
Plans recordkept, full universeOf 50,598 form-year-2024 filings with an identified recordkeeper.302
Plan share0.6%
Participants in those plans134,904
Participant share0.2%
Plans published on 401(k) MonitorOf 57,824 plans published so far from the 57,824 in the form-year-2024 data.302
Participants in published plans134,904
Assets in published plans$8.1B

The published subset skews toward the largest plans, so its totals and medians do not describe the whole Alerus book. The universe counts do.

What do 401(k) plans recordkept by Alerus pay in fees?

The median plan-paid administrative cost across the 302 published plans recordkept by Alerus is $167.81 per participant, against $122.17 across all 54,783 published plans with fee data. 107 of the 302 (35%) pay less than that all-plans median.

These are plan-paid expenses from Schedule H only. Fees the sponsor pays directly, and fees embedded in fund expense ratios, never appear here, so every figure is a floor, not the all-in cost. The recordkeeper is one of several providers a plan pays. How to read your own plan’s number: are your 401(k) fees high?

Which are the biggest 401(k) plans Alerus administers?

The 10 plans naming Alerus as recordkeeper with the most active participants. Published subset only, not the whole Alerusbook.
#PlanActive participantsAssetsPlan-paid cost / participant
1Performance Contractors, Inc. 401(k) Salary Savings Plan4,376$131.6M$55.92
2Eide Bailly LLP 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan3,154$615.3M$142.81
3Umass Memorial Shields Pharmacy, LLC 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan2,566$88.2M$94.50
4Fs Brands 401(k) Plan2,428$127.5M$82.67
5Sanstone Management Company 401(k) Plan1,926$8.7M$17.83
6Hotwire Communications 401(k) Plan1,896$36.5M$65.94
7New Perspective Senior Living 401(k) Plan1,730$16.2M$125.10
8Jane Street Group, LLC 401(k) Plan1,728$521.4M$26.61
9Brandt Holdings Company 401(k) Plan1,713$114.3M$81.18
10Serv-U-Success 401(k) Plan1,580$24.0M$56.48

Each linked page shows the plan’s full fee breakdown and its percentile among plans of the same size.

Source

DatasetDOL EFAST2 Form 5500 bulk data (FOIA)
Form year2024
Recordkeeper identificationService code 15 or 64; the mapping from raw filing names to brands is ours.Schedule C, Part I, Item 2
Dataset last refreshedJuly 28, 2026

Bulk dataset at askebsa.dol.gov ↗ · How the recordkeeper is identified

Cite this page

401(k) Monitor, "Alerus 401(k) plans and fees", computed from DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 bulk data, form year 2024.