JOHNSON, DUFFIE, STEWART & WEIDNER
EIN 25-1802360 · PA · Legal Services
Benchmarked against: Legal Services · 1–100 employees · same industry, in-state · n=12 employers (your plan plus 11 peers)
35
(latest)
Self-fundedSelf-funded (incl. mixed, stop-loss and level-funded).
Funding
$25,700
Broker pay, employer-paid lines (2023)
$61.19
4th highest of 12 comparable plans (your plan plus 11 peers)
Lines disclosed: Dental · Vision · Life · Short-term disability · Long-term disability
Broker pay as a share of insured premium: 42.3% (peer median 51.2%, 6th highest of 9 comparable plans (your plan plus 8 peers)).
Without the 3 low-disclosure peers, this plan is 3rd highest of 9 comparable plans (your plan plus 8 peers).
Per-participant and share-of-premium comparisons differ because your plan insures more lines than most peers. The line-by-line rates below are the most direct comparison.
Self-funded medical. This figure is commissions on the insured ancillary lines (life, disability, dental, vision, stop-loss). A self-funded employer's medical advisor is typically paid a fee outside these filings, so total broker pay is usually higher than the figure shown.
Broker commission rate by benefit line
What the broker earns on each insured line, as a share of that line's own premium — not a share of total broker pay, and not what the coverage cost. Peers for these tiles: same region, similar covered lives. Full table below. How the national rates are built.
Vision
Not comparable
Premium under $10,000 is too small to compare
Dental and Life are filed only inside a bundled multi-line contract, so there is no single-line rate to compare. The bundle's effective rate is in the table below.
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Where the $25,700 across all lines goes
Each broker and each benefit line, in dollars
How much broker pay rides inside the premium
Base commission against bonuses and other carrier payments, all funded through premium
Whether this number is drifting
Compensation across every filed year, against the peer median
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Benefits covered (latest filing)
From the Form 5500 welfare benefit codes — the authoritative list of what the plan covers, including medical (health).
Disclosure opacity
What this filing doesn't show
This filing discloses no compensation on a health or stop-loss contract for 2023 — the plan's largest lines are absent from the public record. That is typical for self-funded plans, not reassuring: 53% of self-funded health plans with 100+ participants disclose the same — nothing (42K plans reviewed, 2024 filings). How we count this. The compensation still exists — under ERISA Section 408(b)(2), it must be disclosed in writing to the plan fiduciary on request.
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Broker history
Benefit lines covered by year — broker identity limited on public pages
Medical here is self-funded. The employer pays its own health claims (usually through a TPA), so there's no insurance contract for medical and it never appears on Schedule A. The itemized lines below are the insured ancillary coverages — dental, vision, life, disability. Self-funded medical broker or consultant fees paid from plan assets are reported on Schedule C — shown below, tagged Sch. C. What Schedule C does not capture is advisor pay the employer makes from its own corporate funds instead of plan assets, which is not reportable, so the filed figure can be lower than what an advisor is paid in total.
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Commission rates by benefit line
Each insured contract on the filing, with the broker's commission as a share of that contract's own premium. Premium is what was paid to the carrier for the coverage; only the commission column is broker pay.
| Benefit line | Contract | Rate | vs. peers | Position |
|---|
Bundled and other contracts — no single-line peer comparison
A bundled contract covers two or more lines on one premium (for example Health + Dental). Its effective rate is the commission on the whole premium; it is shown for completeness and never compared with single-line peers, because the mix of lines inside the bundle sets the rate as much as the broker does.
| Covers | Contract | Effective rate | vs. peers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dental + Life + Short-term disability + Long-term disability | Principal Life Insurance CompanyPlan 502 | 18.6% | Bundled; no single-line peer |
1 contract under $10,000 in premium — listed for completeness, not compared to peers. Show
- Vision — National Vision Administrators LLC (Fsl) — Premium under $10,000 is too small to compare
How the peer group for each line was built
- Vision: n=236 contracts, Northeast, 1-100 covered lives
n = the number of peer contracts in that comparison group.
Everything in this table is from the 2023 filing. These 2 contracts are a subset of the broker compensation disclosed for that year. The remainder sits on contracts with no premium reported or on Schedule C service-provider fees, which carry no contract rate.
Peer comparison here is contract-level: each line is matched to single-line contracts covering a similar number of lives. The geography and size band come from that cell's generated scope label. That is a different group from the plan-level peer set, which compares employers on total broker cost per employee, so the two sample sizes are not expected to agree. The national table on the research page includes every single-line contract on that benefit line. Company pages use the tightest cell with at least 10 contracts — region and size when those exist, otherwise national. The two medians answer different questions, so they are not expected to match. Contracts under $10,000 in premium are listed for completeness, with no rate or peer position.
Plans on file
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PN 502JOHNSON, DUFFIE, STEWART & WEIDNER EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN35 participants (2023)HealthDentalLife insuranceShort-term disabilityLong-term disabilityApprenticeship / trainingOtherSelf-fundedSelf-funded (incl. mixed, stop-loss and level-funded). · 3 years on file
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Covers = benefits reported on the Form 5500 (welfare benefit codes). Contracts = insured lines itemized on Schedule A; a self-funded medical line never appears there.
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How do similar employers compare?
Employers in the same peer group (Legal Services, similar size), from public Form 5500 filings. Open one to see what it pays its broker.
- OQUIRRH MOUNTAIN LAW GROUP, PCUtahCompensation disclosed →
- BADER SCOTT INJURY LAWYERS LLCGeorgiaCompensation disclosed →
- SCHMITTINGER AND RODRIGUEZ, P.A.DelawareCompensation disclosed →
- SALZMANN HUGHES, P.C.PennsylvaniaCompensation disclosed →
- JAMES, SMITH, DIETTERICK & CONNELLY, LLPPennsylvaniaCompensation disclosed →
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Sourced from Form 5500 filings as submitted to the U.S. Department of Labor. Most recent plan year on file: 2023. Dataset refreshed October 7, 2026. Plan years are labeled by the year they begin, so a July 2024 – June 2025 plan year is 2024. Filings may lag 12–18 months behind the current plan year.
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