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TAYLOR FORGE ENGINEERED SYSTEM INC

EIN 51-0279600 · KS · Manufacturing — Heavy

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Compensation disclosed2 brokers of record, 2019–2024As reported on Form 5500 (Schedules A and C), U.S. Department of Labor.
Employer-paid broker pay2024: $42,1862023 · analysis: $43,2032022: $32,5352021: $29,8182020: $32,4272019: $47,865

Benchmarked against: Manufacturing — Heavy · 101–500 employees · same industry, in-state · n=54 employers

266

(2023)

2022 count · 2023 not reported

Self-funded

Funding

$43,203

Broker pay, employer-paid lines (2023)

$13.53

2023

Lines disclosed: Dental · Vision · Life · Short-term disability · Long-term disability

Broker pay as a share of insured premium: 1.8% (peer median n/a, percentile unavailable).

Showing 2023, the latest year with a complete peer group. A 2024 filing is on file and appears in broker history; it is not benchmarked yet.

Why 2023?

The figures above use 2023, the latest year we can compare with similar employers. A filing for 2024 is on file. Only a smaller plan has filed for 2024 so far. The main plan's filing is not in yet, so that year cannot carry the comparison. Rows for 2024 stay in the broker history and stay out of the headline and the peer comparison.

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 $43,203 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)

HealthDentalLife insuranceShort-term disabilityLong-term disabilityApprenticeship / trainingSeverance

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

Year:

The 2024 filings on file so far are from smaller plans; the main plan has not filed 2024 yet. The analysis year is 2023, the latest year that is complete and benchmarked.

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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.

Analysis year 2023 — the same year as the headline figure and per-participant rate above. The 2024 filings on file so far are from smaller plans; the main plan has not filed 2024 yet.

Benefit lineContractRatevs. peersPosition

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.

CoversContractEffective ratevs. peers
Medical + Dental + VisionAetna Life Insurance CompanyPlan 5040.4%Bundled; no single-line peer
Life + Short-term disability + Long-term disabilityHartford Life and AccidentPlan 50615.9%Bundled; no single-line peer
1 contract under $10,000 in premium — listed for completeness, not compared to peers. Show
  • Vision — Vision Service Plan — Premium under $10,000 is too small to compare
How the peer group for each line was built
  • Vision: n=3,196 contracts, Midwest, 101-500 covered lives

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

Everything in this table is from the 2023 filing. These 3 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. 2024 is not rated here. Its rows appear in Broker history above as filed — pick 2024 on the year chips there to see them.

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 501TAYLOR FORGE ENGINEERED SYSTEM INC HEALTH AND WELFARE BENEFIT PLAN202 participants (2024)
HealthDentalLife insuranceShort-term disabilityLong-term disabilityApprenticeship / trainingSeveranceSelf-funded

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PN 506TAYLOR FORGE ENGINEERED SYSTEMS INC LIFE & TEMPORARY DISABILITY INSURANCE PLAN0 participants (2023)
DentalLong-term disabilityApprenticeship / trainingSeveranceSelf-funded · 5 years on file

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PN 504TAYLOR FORGE ENGINEERED SYSTEMS INC HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN0 participants (2023)
HealthLife insuranceShort-term disabilitySelf-funded · 5 years on file

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PN 503TAYLOR FORGE ENGINEERED SYSTEMS INC MEDICAL INSURANCE PLAN0 participants (2023)
Short-term disabilitySelf-funded · 5 years on file

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PN 505TAYLOR FORGE ENGINEERED SYSTEMS INC WELFARE BENEFITS PLAN0 participants (2020)
Life insuranceShort-term disabilityLong-term disabilitySelf-funded · 2 years on file

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PN 502TAYLOR FORGE ENGINEERED SYSTEMS INC DENTAL INSURANCE PLAN0 participants (2019)
Life insuranceSelf-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 file6
Lead broker continuitySame primary broker
Broker setup1 broker in 20232 across all years
Most
Peer benchmarkManufacturing — Heavyn=54 · 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. Analysis year: 2023; newest plan year with a filing on file: 2024. 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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