401(k) Monitor

Sentry 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

Sentry recordkeeps 31 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 19,375 participants.

$38.25

Median plan-paid administrative cost per participant across the 31 published plans recordkept by Sentry with computable fee data, form-year-2024 filings.

$83.92 below the $122.17 median across all 54,783 published plans with fee data.

How many 401(k) plans does Sentry recordkeep?

Universe figures from Schedule C across all form-year-2024 filings; published figures from the 31 plans on 401(k) Monitor naming Sentry. Assets and participants as filed.
Plans recordkept, full universeOf 50,598 form-year-2024 filings with an identified recordkeeper.31
Plan share0.1%
Participants in those plans19,375
Participant share0.0%
Plans published on 401(k) MonitorOf 57,824 plans published so far from the 57,824 in the form-year-2024 data.31
Participants in published plans19,375
Assets in published plans$2.3B

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

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

The median plan-paid administrative cost across the 31 published plans recordkept by Sentry is $38.25 per participant, against $122.17 across all 54,783 published plans with fee data. 30 of the 31 (97%) 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 Sentry administers?

The 10 plans naming Sentry as recordkeeper with the most active participants. Published subset only, not the whole Sentrybook.
#PlanActive participantsAssetsPlan-paid cost / participant
1Sentry 401(k) Plan4,702$1.9B$22.42
2Steven Enterprises 401(k) Plan1,580$12.5M$6.03
3Arizona Machinery Group Employees' Profit Sharing Retirement Plan758$68.9M$73.65
4National Staffing Solutions, Inc. Retirement Plan724$4.0M$8.80
5Silvi Concrete Products, Inc. 401(k) Plan536$38.9M$30.46
6Sunrise Ford 401(k) Plan510$18.2M$26.29
7Addman Holdings 401(k) Plan494$27.5M$33.99
8Arbor Management, Inc. Employee's Retirement/Saving Plan403$3.3M$60.61
9Plains Ag Retirement Plan290$24.5M$61.59
10Reco Equipment, Inc. 401(k) Savings Plan289$17.8M$24.73

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