Department of Labor filing

HOWARD MILLER COMPANY

HOWARD MILLER-HEKMAN PROFIT SHARING AND 401(K) SAVINGS PLAN · For the plan year ended Dec 31, 2024

Public filing 2024 · received Sep 19, 2025Verified current terms Not available

Plan at a glance

How good does the filing look?

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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

$1,195

Reported employer contributions per active participant.

Higher than about 48% of comparable plans

#People in the filing

181

Active participants reported for 2024.

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

¢Visible plan-paid fees

$422 / participant

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

Lower cost than about 5% of comparable plans

↗Investment performance

Not available

Plan assets changed -4.4%, 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 · 202435out of 100 among similar-size plans in the same industry when enough peers exist

How this filing compares

Reported employer contributions48th percentileTypical peer $1,282 · based on 105 comparable plans

Lower reported administrative expense5th percentileTypical peer $135 · based on 111 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, HOWARD MILLER COMPANY reported $216,228 in employer contributions across the plan and 181 active participants. That works out to $1,195 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 proxy87%

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 trendDown 5.4%

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

Expense trendUp 17.3%

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

Peer context35/100

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: $216,228
Participant contributions: $729,348
Other contributions: $1,176,452
Employer share of reported contributions: 22.9%
Beginning assets: $23,129,482
Ending assets: $22,102,673
Ending net assets: $22,102,673
Ending liabilities: $0
Total income: $4,160,977
Total expenses: $5,187,786
Administrative expenses: $127,129
Participant loans: $123,621

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

$1,262

2023

$1,077

2024

$1,195

Plan-paid administrative expenses per participant

2022

$360

2023

$454

2024

$422

Active participants

2022

194

2023

198

2024

181

Detailed filing history
Plan year	Per active participant	Active participants	Plan assets	Filing ID
2024	$1,195	181	22.1M	20250919092006NAL0001013731001
2023	$1,077	198	23.1M	20240816044250NAL0007804931001
2022	$1,262	194	25M	20231002054205NAL0016873553001

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: 381258662-002

Reported plan details

Identity and filing status

Plan type: Retirement plan
Employer arrangement: Single-employer plan
Plan effective date: Dec 29, 1960
Industry: Industry group 337
Amended filing: No
Final filing for this plan: No
Short plan year: No
401(k) feature reported: Yes
Show DOL characteristic codes
2A2E2F2H2J2K2S3F

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
PRINCIPAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY	2024	Not reported	unknown

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