S & M AUTOMOTIVE, LLC
EIN 61-1355623 · KY · Retail
74
(2012)
Fully insured
Funding
$28,738
Broker pay, employer-paid lines (2012)
$32.36
2012
Showing 2012, the latest year with a complete peer group. A 2019 filing is on file and appears in broker history; it is not benchmarked yet.
Why 2012?
The figures above use 2012, the latest year we can compare with similar employers. A filing for 2013–2019 is on file. Only a smaller plan has filed for 2013 so far. The main plan's filing is not in yet, so that year cannot carry the comparison. Only a smaller plan has filed for 2014 so far. The main plan's filing is not in yet, so that year cannot carry the comparison. Only a smaller plan has filed for 2015 so far. The main plan's filing is not in yet, so that year cannot carry the comparison. Only a smaller plan has filed for 2016 so far. The main plan's filing is not in yet, so that year cannot carry the comparison. Only a smaller plan has filed for 2017 so far. The main plan's filing is not in yet, so that year cannot carry the comparison. Only a smaller plan has filed for 2018 so far. The main plan's filing is not in yet, so that year cannot carry the comparison. Only a smaller plan has filed for 2019 so far. The main plan's filing is not in yet, so that year cannot carry the comparison. 2013 broker pay on file so far totals $8,065 across all lines, about 72% less than the $28,738 for 2012. 2014 broker pay on file so far totals $8,586 across all lines, about 70% less than the $28,738 for 2012. 2015 broker pay on file so far totals $8,836 across all lines, about 69% less than the $28,738 for 2012. 2016 broker pay on file so far totals $8,950 across all lines, about 69% less than the $28,738 for 2012. 2017 broker pay on file so far totals $9,135 across all lines, about 68% less than the $28,738 for 2012. 2018 broker pay on file so far totals $8,975 across all lines, about 69% less than the $28,738 for 2012. 2019 broker pay on file so far totals $8,866 across all lines, about 69% less than the $28,738 for 2012. Rows for 2013–2019 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: the tightest available peer cell for each line. Full table below. How the national rates are built.
Medical
4.0%
No peer cell
Long-term disability
13.9%
No peer cell
Dental
24.2%
No peer cell
Life 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.
Vision is not on this filing as its own contract, so there is no peer rate to show for it.
Where the $28,738 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.
Broker history
Benefit lines covered by year — broker identity limited on public pages
The 2019 filings on file so far are from smaller plans; the main plan has not filed 2019 yet. The analysis year is 2012, 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 2012 — the same year as the headline figure and per-participant rate above. The 2019 filings on file so far are from smaller plans; the main plan has not filed 2019 yet.
| Benefit line | Contract | Rate | vs. peers | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medicalfiled as “Health” | UnitedHealthcare Insurance Company | 4.0% | No peer cell | No peer cell |
| Long-term disability | The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company | 13.9% | No peer cell | No peer cell |
| Dental | The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America | 24.2% | No peer cell | No peer cell |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Life + Short-term disability | The Lincoln National Life Insurance CompanyPlan 503 | 13.0% | Bundled; no single-line peer |
Everything in this table is from the 2012 filing. These 4 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. 2019 is not rated here. Its rows appear in Broker history above as filed — pick 2019 on the year chips there to see them.
No peer cell met the minimum sample size for these lines, so rates are shown without a market position. 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 503S & M AUTOMOTIVE, LLC DISABILITY PLAN164 participants (2019)DentalLong-term disabilityApprenticeship / trainingSeveranceFully insured · 17 years on file
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PN 502S & M AUTOMOTIVE, LLC DENTAL PLAN87 participants (2012)Life insuranceUnfunded / insured (non-filing)Stop-lossFully insured · 4 years on file
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PN 501S & M AUTOMOTIVE, LLC MEDICAL PLAN74 participants (2012)HealthUnfunded / insured (non-filing)Stop-lossFully insured · 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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Sourced from Form 5500 filings as submitted to the U.S. Department of Labor. Analysis year: 2012; newest plan year with a filing on file: 2019. 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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