KADANT BLACK CLAWSON LLC

EIN 31-1529377 · OH · Manufacturing — Heavy

Compensation disclosed2 brokers of record on fileAs reported on Form 5500 (Schedules A and C), U.S. Department of Labor.

Benchmarked against: Manufacturing — Heavy · 1–100 employees · same industry, in-state · n=15 employers (your plan plus 14 peers)

(latest)

Self-fundedSelf-funded (incl. mixed, stop-loss and level-funded).

Funding

$1,304

Broker pay, employer-paid lines (2021)

$1.47

13th highest of 15 comparable plans (your plan plus 14 peers)

Lines disclosed: Dental · Vision · Short-term disability

Broker pay as a share of insured premium: 1.0% (peer median 7.2%, the lowest disclosed broker pay among 15 comparable plans (your plan plus 14 peers)).

Without the 3 low-disclosure peers, this plan is the lowest disclosed broker pay among 12 comparable plans (your plan plus 11 peers).

Employer-paid $1,304 benchmarked for 2021 · $13,110 shown as filed, excluded as a likely filing error

Why excluded?

1 broker compensation line totaling $13,110 on the Form 5500 appears to be filing errors (a commission above 100% of the premium reported on that contract, or pay above $200 per participant per month or $50,000,000 on one line). We verified these amounts against the DOL EFAST publication — they are as filed by the plan sponsor, not an Unbrokered ingest error. Those lines are shown as filed and excluded from peer benchmarks and headline PEPM.

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

11.6%

Peer median 10.0%

Above peer range

Dental is 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.

Life is not on this filing as its own contract, so there is no peer rate to show for it.

Where the $1,304 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)

HealthLife insuranceShort-term disabilityLong-term disabilityOtherUnfunded / insured (non-filing)

From the Form 5500 welfare benefit codes — the authoritative list of what the plan covers, including medical (health).

Broker history

Benefit lines covered by year — broker identity limited on public pages

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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
Vision	EyeMed Vision Care	11.6%	med 10.0%	Above peer range

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
Medical + Dental	Cigna Health and Life Insurance CompanyPlan 505	11.0%	Bundled; no single-line peer

How the peer group for each line was built

Vision: n=3,111 contracts, Midwest, 101-500 covered lives

n = the number of peer contracts in that comparison group.

Everything in this table is from the 2021 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 505KADANT BLACK CLAWSON LLC HEALTH AND WELFARE PLAN74 participants (2021)

HealthLife insuranceShort-term disabilityLong-term disabilityOtherUnfunded / insured (non-filing)Self-fundedSelf-funded (incl. mixed, stop-loss and level-funded).

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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.

At a glance

Primary brokerLimited on public pages

Years on file1

Lead broker continuitySingle year on file

Broker setup2 brokers across benefit lines

Most

Peer benchmarkManufacturing — Heavyn=15 · state peers

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How do similar employers compare?

Employers in the same peer group (Manufacturing — Heavy, similar size), from public Form 5500 filings. Open one to see what it pays its broker.

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Sourced from Form 5500 filings as submitted to the U.S. Department of Labor. Most recent plan year on file: 2021. 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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