NICOLON CORPORATION

Formerly TENCATE GEOSYNTHETICS

EIN 57-0603223 · GA · Manufacturing — Light

Compensation disclosed11 brokers of record, 2021–2024As reported on Form 5500 (Schedules A and C), U.S. Department of Labor.

Employer-paid broker pay2024: $175,0852023: $101,0912022: $64,6112021 · analysis: $85,749

Benchmarked against: Manufacturing — Light · 501–2,500 employees · same industry, in-state · n=36 employers (your plan plus 35 peers)

770

(2021)

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

Funding

$85,749

Broker pay, employer-paid lines (2021)

$9.28

2021 · 43rd pct vs peers · n=36

Lines disclosed: Life · Long-term disability

Broker pay as a share of insured premium: 18.8% (peer median 6.8%, 99th percentile).

Without the 2 low-disclosure peers, this plan is at the 42nd percentile of 34 comparable plans (your plan plus 33 peers).

Per-participant and share-of-premium comparisons differ because your plan insures fewer lines than most peers. The line-by-line rates below are the most direct comparison.

Employer-paid $85,749 benchmarked for 2021 · Voluntary $12,674 shown separately, compared by rate only

Showing 2021, 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 2021?

The figures above use 2021, the latest year we can compare with similar employers. A filing for 2022–2024 is on file. 2022 shows commissions paid through insurance contracts, and is missing the compensation the plan pays brokers directly that a recent prior year reported. A missing schedule usually means that year's filing is still arriving, so we wait for both before comparing the year with peers. 2023 shows commissions paid through insurance contracts, and is missing the compensation the plan pays brokers directly that a recent prior year reported. A missing schedule usually means that year's filing is still arriving, so we wait for both before comparing the year with peers. 2024 shows commissions paid through insurance contracts, and is missing the compensation the plan pays brokers directly that a recent prior year reported. A missing schedule usually means that year's filing is still arriving, so we wait for both before comparing the year with peers. 2024 broker pay on file so far totals $175,085 across all lines, about 78% more than the $98,423 for 2021. Rows for 2022–2024 stay in the broker history and stay out of the headline and the peer 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.

Life

20.0%

Peer median 15.0%

Above peer range

Voluntary / worksite

13.3%

Peer median 17.7%

Within peer range

Short-term disability

20.0%

Peer median 15.0%

Above peer range

Long-term disability

15.0%

Peer median 16.4%

Within peer range

Voluntary / worksite premium is typically paid by employees through payroll deduction, so commission on those lines comes out of employee money rather than company money.

Dental and Vision are not on this filing as their own contracts, so there is no peer rate to show for them.

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How much broker pay rides inside the premium

Base commission against bonuses and other carrier payments, all funded through premium

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Compensation across every filed year, against the peer median

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Benefits covered (latest filing)

HealthLife insuranceShort-term disability

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

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.

Year:

The 2024 filing is on file, but one of its compensation schedules has not arrived yet. The analysis year is 2021, 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 2021 — the same year as the headline figure and per-participant rate above. The 2024 filing is on file, but one of its compensation schedules has not arrived yet.

Benefit line	Contract	Rate	vs. peers	Position
Life · contract 28008	The Lincoln National Life Insurance CompanyPlan 506 · 241 lives · Life	20.0%	med 15.0%	Above peer range
Voluntary / worksitemulti-product: accident + critical illness + cancer	American Heritage Life Insurance Company	13.3%	med 17.7%	Within peer range
Short-term disability	The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company	20.0%	med 15.0%	Above peer range
Life · contract LIFE-0000028008	The Lincoln National Life Insurance CompanyPlan 503 · 241 lives · Life	20.0%	med 15.0%	Above peer range
Life · contract 28007	The Lincoln National Life Insurance CompanyPlan 506 · 449 lives · Life	15.0%	med 15.0%	Within peer range
Life · contract 000010186414	The Lincoln National Life Insurance CompanyPlan 503 · 1,168 lives · Life, Other (AD & D/ DEPENDENT LIF…	15.0%	med 11.4%	Within peer range
Long-term disability · contract 28009	The Lincoln National Life Insurance CompanyPlan 506 · 88 lives · Long-term disability	15.0%	med 16.4%	Within peer range
Life · contract LIFE-0000028007	The Lincoln National Life Insurance CompanyPlan 503 · 449 lives · Life	15.0%	med 15.0%	Within peer range
Long-term disability · contract LTD-0000031996	The Lincoln National Life Insurance CompanyPlan 503 · 88 lives · Long-term disability	20.0%	med 16.4%	Within 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
Other benefitWEEKLY INCOME	The Lincoln National Life Insurance CompanyPlan 503	20.9%	No comparable line
Other benefitLONG-TERM DISABILITY - GA	The Lincoln National Life Insurance CompanyPlan 503	20.0%	No comparable line
Other benefitSHORT-TERM DISABILITY	The Lincoln National Life Insurance CompanyPlan 503	20.0%	No comparable line
Other benefitPAID SALARIED LT DISABILITY	The Lincoln National Life Insurance CompanyPlan 503	Not comparable	No comparable linePremium under $10,000 is too small to compare

How the peer group for each line was built

Life: n=3,004 contracts, Southeast, 101-500 covered lives
Voluntary / worksite: n=2,592 contracts, Southeast, 101-500 covered lives
Short-term disability: n=1,574 contracts, Southeast, 101-500 covered lives
Life: n=1,226 contracts, Southeast, 501-2500 covered lives
Long-term disability: n=723 contracts, Southeast, 1-100 covered lives

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

Everything in this table is from the 2021 filing. These 13 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.

Who funds this. Voluntary / worksite premium is typically paid by employees through payroll deduction, so commission on those lines comes out of employee money rather than company money.

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 506TENCATE GEOSYNTHETICS AMERICAS LIFE AND DISABILITY PLAN449 participants (2022)

DentalLong-term disabilityApprenticeship / trainingFully insured · 2 years on file

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PN 505TENCATE GEOSYNTHETICS AMERICAS CRITICAL ILLNESS AND ACCIDENT PLAN449 participants (2022)

OtherFully insured · 2 years on file

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PN 504TENCATE GEOSYNTHETICS AMERICAS HEALTH AND WELFARE PLAN449 participants (2022)

HealthLife insuranceShort-term disabilityOtherSelf-fundedSelf-funded (incl. mixed, stop-loss and level-funded). · 2 years on file

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PN 501TENCATE HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN344 participants (2024)

HealthLife insuranceShort-term disabilitySelf-fundedSelf-funded (incl. mixed, stop-loss and level-funded). · 4 years on file

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PN 503NICOLON CORPORATION FULLY INSURED BENEFITS PLAN0 participants (2021)

DentalApprenticeship / trainingOtherFully insured

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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 file4

Lead broker continuityFiled brokername changed

Broker setup8 brokers in 202111 across all years

Most

Peer benchmarkManufacturing — Lightn=36 · state peers

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How do similar employers compare?

Employers in the same peer group (Manufacturing — Light, 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: 2021; 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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