401(k) Monitor

JULY Business Services 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

JULY Business Services recordkeeps 76 of the 50,598 large 401(k) plans with an identified recordkeeper in form-year-2024 Form 5500 filings, a 0.1% plan share covering 43,540 participants.

$148.22

Median plan-paid administrative cost per participant across the 76 published plans recordkept by JULY Business Services with computable fee data, form-year-2024 filings.

$26.05 above the $122.17 median across all 54,783 published plans with fee data.

How many 401(k) plans does JULY Business Services recordkeep?

Universe figures from Schedule C across all form-year-2024 filings; published figures from the 76 plans on 401(k) Monitor naming JULY Business Services. Assets and participants as filed.
Plans recordkept, full universeOf 50,598 form-year-2024 filings with an identified recordkeeper.76
Plan share0.1%
Participants in those plans43,540
Participant share0.1%
Plans published on 401(k) MonitorOf 57,824 plans published so far from the 57,824 in the form-year-2024 data.76
Participants in published plans43,540
Assets in published plans$1.6B

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

What do 401(k) plans recordkept by JULY Business Services pay in fees?

The median plan-paid administrative cost across the 76 published plans recordkept by JULY Business Services is $148.22 per participant, against $122.17 across all 54,783 published plans with fee data. 32 of the 76 (42%) 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 JULY Business Services administers?

The 10 plans naming JULY Business Services as recordkeeper with the most active participants. Published subset only, not the whole JULY Business Servicesbook.
#PlanActive participantsAssetsPlan-paid cost / participant
1July Pooled Employer Plan #24,752$52.9M$91.21
2July Pooled Employer Plan #13,275$48.2M$92.64
3Kag 401(k) Retirement Plan1,775$46.4M$141.38
4Htlf Retirement Plan1,683$318.2M$49.36
5Islands Restaurants 401(k) Plan1,537$15.3M$48.64
6Academy Of Art University 401(k) Retirement Plan1,132$85.6M$118.54
7San Gabriel Transit & Affiliates 401(k) Retirement Plan974$1.0M$4.08
8Goellner, Inc. Retirement Savings Plan889$24.4M$136.24
9Hodge Company Employee Retirement Savings Plan750$24.5M$127.60
10Campbell Scientific, Inc. 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan705$38.7M$102.56

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