UNIVERSAL LENDING CORPORATION
EIN 84-0849361 · CO · Insurance / Financial Services
Benchmarked against: Insurance / Financial Services · 1–100 employees · same industry, regional · n=23 employers (your plan plus 22 peers)
Your exact in-state peer group was below the 10-plan minimum, so the comparison broadens to same industry, regional within Insurance / Financial Services.
26
(2023)
Self-fundedSelf-funded (incl. mixed, stop-loss and level-funded).
Funding
$24,064
Broker pay, employer-paid lines (2023)
$77.13
2023 · 73rd pct vs peers · n=23
Lines disclosed: Dental · Vision · Life · Short-term disability · Long-term disability
Broker pay as a share of insured premium: 11.2% (peer median 7.2%, 73rd percentile).
Without the 3 low-disclosure peers, this plan is 6th highest of 20 comparable plans (your plan plus 19 peers).
Employer-paid $24,064 benchmarked for 2023 · Voluntary $336 shown separately, compared by rate only
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. 2024 reports only a token amount of broker pay, under $5,000. That is too small to compare with other employers. 2024 broker pay on file so far totals $3,335 across all lines, about 86% less than the $24,400 for 2023. 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.
Dental
5.2%
Peer median 8.5%
Within peer rangeVision
10.3%
Peer median 7.1%
Above peer rangeVoluntary / worksite
Not comparable
Premium under $10,000 is too small to compare
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.
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.
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Where the $24,400 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).
Broker history
Benefit lines covered by year — broker identity limited on public pages
The 2024 filing reports only a token amount of broker pay, under $5,000. 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 filing reports only a token amount of broker pay, under $5,000.
| Benefit line | Contract | Rate | vs. peers | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dental | Delta Dental of Colorado | 5.2% | med 8.5% | Within peer range |
| Vision | EyeMed Vision Care on behalf of Fidelity Security Life Insurance Co. | 10.3% | med 7.1% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Life + Short-term disability + Long-term disability | The Lincoln National Life Insurance CompanyPlan 501 | 15.2% | Bundled; no single-line peer |
1 contract under $10,000 in premium — listed for completeness, not compared to peers. Show
- Voluntary / worksite — Unum Life Insurance Company of America — Premium under $10,000 is too small to compare
How the peer group for each line was built
- Dental: n=727 contracts, West, 1-100 covered lives
- Vision: n=329 contracts, West, 1-100 covered lives
- Voluntary / worksite: n=1,639 contracts, West, 1-100 covered lives
n = the number of peer contracts in that comparison group.
Everything in this table is from the 2023 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. 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 501UNIVERSAL LENDING CORPORATION EMPLOYEE BENEFITS PLAN0 participants (2024)HealthDentalLife insuranceShort-term disabilityLong-term disabilityApprenticeship / trainingSeveranceSelf-fundedSelf-funded (incl. mixed, stop-loss and level-funded). · 4 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 (Insurance / Financial Services, 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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