WATERFRONT BRANDS, LLC

EIN 84-2055726 · MN · Manufacturing — Heavy

Compensation disclosed4 brokers of record on fileAs reported on Form 5500 (Schedules A and C), U.S. Department of Labor.

Benchmarked against: Manufacturing — Heavy · 101–500 employees · same industry, in-state · n=78 employers (your plan plus 77 peers)

268

(latest)

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

Funding

$107,616

Broker pay, employer-paid lines (2025)

$33.46

78th pct vs peers · n=78

Lines disclosed: Vision · Life · Long-term disability

Broker pay as a share of insured premium: 5.1% (peer median 9.2%, 29th percentile).

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 $107,616 benchmarked for 2025 · Voluntary $14,727 shown separately, compared by rate only

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.

Medical

4.1%

Peer median 3.3%

Within peer range

Voluntary / worksite

20.0%

Peer median 19.0%

Within peer range

Long-term disability

12.0%

Peer median 17.0%

Below peer range

Vision

10.0%

Peer median 10.0%

Within peer range

Life

15.0%

Peer median 15.0%

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

Where the $122,343 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

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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
Medical · contract 307516	Medica Insurance CompanyPlan 501 · 131 lives · Health	4.1%	med 3.3%	Within peer range
Medical · contract 310943	Medica Insurance CompanyPlan 501 · 89 lives · Health	4.2%	med 3.8%	Within peer range
Medical · contract 310768	Medica Insurance CompanyPlan 501 · 45 lives · Health	4.3%	med 3.8%	Within peer range
Medical · contract 311487	Medica Insurance CompanyPlan 501 · 25 lives · Health	4.5%	med 3.8%	Within peer range
Medical · contract 311727	Medica Insurance CompanyPlan 501 · 10 lives · Health	5.3%	med 3.8%	Above peer range
Voluntary / worksite ($0 premium)	United of Omaha Life Insurance CompanyPlan 501 · 105 lives · Life, Other (VOLUNTARY LIFE/AD&D)	20.0%	med 19.0%	Within peer range
Long-term disability	United of Omaha Life Insurance Company	12.0%	med 17.0%	Below peer range
Vision	United of Omaha Life Insurance Company	10.0%	med 10.0%	Within peer range
Lifefiled as “Life, Other (AD&D/ DEPENDENT LIFE)”	United of Omaha Life Insurance Company	15.0%	med 15.0%	Within peer range
Voluntary / worksite ($0 premium)	United of Omaha Life Insurance CompanyPlan 501 · 47 lives · Other (VOLUNTARY CRITICAL ILLNESS)	15.0%	med 18.9%	Within peer range
Voluntary / worksite ($0 premium)	United of Omaha Life Insurance CompanyPlan 501 · 58 lives · Other (VOLUNTARY ACCIDENT)	15.0%	med 18.9%	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 benefitPAID FAMILY MEDICAL LEAVE	United of Omaha Life Insurance CompanyPlan 501	Not comparable	No comparable linePremium under $10,000 is too small to compare

How the peer group for each line was built

Medical: n=2,275 contracts, Midwest, 101-500 covered lives
Medical: n=998 contracts, Midwest, 1-100 covered lives
Voluntary / worksite: n=1,859 contracts, Midwest, 101-500 covered lives
Long-term disability: n=357 contracts, Midwest, 1-100 covered lives
Vision: n=2,257 contracts, Midwest, 101-500 covered lives
Life: n=1,666 contracts, Midwest, 101-500 covered lives
Voluntary / worksite: n=1,592 contracts, Midwest, 1-100 covered lives

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

Everything in this table is from the 2025 filing. These 12 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.

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 501WATERFRONT BRANDS, LLC HEALTH AND WELFARE PLAN268 participants (2025)

HealthDentalLife insuranceShort-term disabilityLong-term disabilityApprenticeship / trainingSeveranceSelf-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 setup4 brokers across benefit lines

Most

Peer benchmarkManufacturing — Heavyn=78 · 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: 2025. 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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