CASCADE UTILITIES, INC.
EIN 93-0163010 · OR · Other
This filing doesn't itemize broker compensation the way most peer employers do. That can be a clean fee arrangement — or pay baked into premium. Peer market rates for similar plans are below.
Benchmarked against: Other · 101–500 employees · same industry, in-state · n=75 employers
Peer disclosed broker cost: median $16.76 per participant per month · typical range $5.37–$28.78. This company's filings did not itemize an amount to place on that scale.
334
(latest)
Self-fundedSelf-funded (incl. mixed, stop-loss and level-funded).
Funding
Voluntary only
Broker pay, employer-paid lines (2024)
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Peer median $16.76 per participant per month
Employer-paid $0 benchmarked for 2024 · Voluntary $76,794 shown separately, compared by rate only
Where the $76,794 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).
Disclosure opacity
What this filing doesn't show
This filing discloses no compensation on a health or stop-loss contract for 2024 — the plan's largest lines are absent from the public record. That is typical for self-funded plans, not reassuring: 53% of self-funded health plans with 100+ participants disclose the same — nothing (42K plans reviewed, 2024 filings). How we count this. The compensation still exists — under ERISA Section 408(b)(2), it must be disclosed in writing to the plan fiduciary on request.
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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 coverages in this filing are the insured ancillary lines — dental, vision, life, disability. Schedule C captures advisor pay two ways: paid directly from plan assets, or received indirectly from a carrier or vendor in connection with the plan. This plan has no Schedule C on file — so any advisor compensation beyond those ancillary lines isn't captured in this filing.
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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 |
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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 | Colonial Life and Accident Insurance CompanyPlan 501 | 22.0% | Bundled; no single-line peer |
| Life + Short-term disability | Colonial Life and Accident Insurance CompanyPlan 501 | 19.5% | Bundled; no single-line peer |
| Life + Short-term disability | Colonial Life and Accident Insurance CompanyPlan 501 | 23.6% | Bundled; no single-line peer |
Everything in this table is from the 2024 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.
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 501CASCADE UTILITIES, INC. AND AFFILIATES EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN334 participants (2024)HealthDentalLife insuranceShort-term disabilityLong-term disabilitySelf-fundedSelf-funded (incl. mixed, stop-loss and level-funded). · 5 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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