Department of Labor filing

BELL AND HOWELL, LLC

BELL AND HOWELL 401(K) SAVINGS PLAN · For the plan year ended Dec 31, 2024

Public filing 2024 · received Oct 14, 2025Verified current terms Not available

Plan at a glance

How good does the filing look?

19filing comparison
out of 100

The filing trails many comparable plans on reported employer support and/or plan-paid administrative costs. This is a filing comparison, not a complete benefits score.

$Employer support

Reported employer contributions per active participant.

Higher than about 1% of comparable plans

#People in the filing

740

Active participants reported for 2024.

The filing does not say how many employees are currently contributing.

¢Visible plan-paid fees

$112 / participant

Reported administrative expense—not every fee an employee may pay.

Lower cost than about 62% of comparable plans

↗Investment performance

Not available

Plan assets changed 1.8%, but that includes contributions, withdrawals, and market movement.

Asset change is not investment performance.

What we still need to judge the benefit

Current match formula, vesting, eligibility, investment choices, fund expense ratios, and employee-level fees.

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Filing comparison · 202419out of 100 among similar-size plans in the same industry when enough peers exist

How this filing compares

Reported employer contributions1st percentileTypical peer $2,847 · based on 168 comparable plans

Lower reported administrative expense62nd percentileTypical peer $131 · based on 169 comparable plans

This comparison uses historical filing figures. It does not compare current match formulas, vesting, investments, or employee fees.

The short version

What the latest filing tells us

For the plan year ended Dec 31, 2024, BELL AND HOWELL, LLC reported $1,159 in employer contributions across the plan and 740 active participants. That works out to $2 per active participant. It is useful context, but it is not the current match formula and it does not show what any one employee received.

Participation proxy77%

Active participants divided by all end-of-year plan participants. This is not the company participation rate because the filing does not report every eligible employee.

Employer money trendNot enough history

Change in reported employer contribution per active participant across the filing history shown.

Expense trendUp 21.0%

Change in reported administrative expense per participant. Investment expenses may not be included.

Peer context19/100

A filing comparison among similar-size plans in the same industry when enough peers exist.

Where the public filing stops

Current match, vesting, eligibility, employee fees, and investment choices require a dated plan document. Until we have one, those details stay blank.

Latest financial record

Contributions, assets, and expenses

These figures are reported totals for the plan—not individual account balances or promises to any employee.

Employer contributions: $1,159
Participant contributions: $3,980,992
Other contributions: $634,163
Employer share of reported contributions: 0.0%
Beginning assets: $142,023,091
Ending assets: $144,573,224
Ending net assets: $144,573,224
Ending liabilities: $0
Total income: $31,967,798
Total expenses: $29,417,665
Administrative expenses: $105,296
Participant loans: $870,528

Three-year filing history

How the reported figures changed

Each chart uses its own scale and starts at zero. When the filing has no value, the chart says so rather than turning it into a zero.

Employer contributions reported per active participant

2022

2023

2024

Plan-paid administrative expenses per participant

2022

$92

2023

$80

2024

$112

Active participants

2022

786

2023

694

2024

740

Detailed filing history
Plan year	Per active participant	Active participants	Plan assets	Filing ID
2024	$2	740	144.6M	20251014211521NAL0007492866001
2023	$0	694	142M	20240927121035NAL0003685104001
2022	$0	786	127.6M	20231004094220NAL0039923234001

Changes in plan assets are not the same as investment performance. Each row uses the selected public filing for that year.

Plan operations

Details worth knowing

Participant loans as a share of plan assets: 0.6%
Independent accountant’s opinion: Unqualified opinion Code 1
Late participant contributions reported: Not stated in the filing
Public plan identifier: 800728837-001

Reported plan details

Identity and filing status

Plan type: Retirement plan
Employer arrangement: Single-employer plan
Plan effective date: Sep 12, 2011
Industry: Industry group 333
Amended filing: Yes
Final filing for this plan: No
Short plan year: No
401(k) feature reported: Yes
Show DOL characteristic codes
2J2G2K2S2T3F2F3D

Reported service providers

Organizations named in the latest filing

The public dataset does not always identify a provider’s exact role. Compensation stays blank when it was not separately reported.

Provider	Plan year	Direct compensation	Indirect compensation
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS INSTITUTIONAL	2024	Not reported	unknown

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