ARGUS COMPANIES, INC.

EIN 93-4644023 · KS · Professional Services

Compensation disclosed3 brokers of record on fileAs reported on Form 5500 (Schedules A and C), U.S. Department of Labor.

Benchmarked against: Professional Services · 101–500 employees · same industry, regional · n=262 employers (your plan plus 261 peers)

Your exact in-state peer group was below the 10-plan minimum, so the comparison broadens to same industry, regional within Professional Services.

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(latest)

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

Funding

$87,349

Broker pay, employer-paid lines (2025)

$61.69

93rd pct vs peers · n=262

Lines disclosed: Dental · Vision · Life · Short-term disability · Long-term disability

Broker pay as a share of insured premium: 27.0% (peer median 8.2%, 99th percentile).

Without the 14 low-disclosure peers, this plan is at the 92nd percentile of 248 comparable plans (your plan plus 247 peers).

Employer-paid $87,349 benchmarked for 2025 · Voluntary $7,939 shown separately, compared by rate only

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.

Dental

10.0%

Peer median 7.0%

Above peer range

Long-term disability

26.7%

Peer median 15.0%

Above peer range

Voluntary / worksite

25.1%

Peer median 18.9%

Above peer range

Short-term disability

26.8%

Peer median 13.7%

Above peer range

Life

26.7%

Peer median 15.0%

Above peer range

Vision

10.0%

Peer median 10.0%

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.

Where the $95,288 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 / trainingOther

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 2025 — 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 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.

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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
Dental	Delta Dental of Kansas, Inc.	10.0%	med 7.0%	Above peer range
Long-term disability · contract 10032624	Principal Life Insurance Company	Not comparable	Rate is above 40% of premium on a core line, or 100% on a voluntary line	Rate is above 40% of premium on a core line, or 100% on a voluntary line
Long-term disability · contract GLTD0BL8N	United of Omaha Life Insurance Company	26.7%	med 15.0%	Above peer range
Voluntary / worksitefiled as “Life, Other (VOLUNTARY AD&D)”	United of Omaha Life Insurance Company	25.1%	med 18.9%	Above peer range
Short-term disability	United of Omaha Life Insurance Company	26.8%	med 13.7%	Above peer range
Lifefiled as “Life, Other (AD&D)”	United of Omaha Life Insurance Company	26.7%	med 15.0%	Above peer range
Vision	Surency Life and Health	10.0%	med 10.0%	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 benefitGROUP LTC	Unum Life Insurance Company of AmericaPlan 501	20.0%	No comparable line
Other benefitGROUP LTC	Unum Life Insurance Company of AmericaPlan 501	21.0%	No comparable line
Other benefitGROUP LTC	Unum Life Insurance Company of AmericaPlan 501	Not comparable	No comparable linePremium under $10,000 is too small to compare
Other benefitGROUP LTC	Unum Life Insurance Company of AmericaPlan 501	Not comparable	No comparable linePremium under $10,000 is too small to compare

How the peer group for each line was built

Dental: n=1,739 contracts, Midwest, 101-500 covered lives
Long-term disability: n=357 contracts, Midwest, 1-100 covered lives
Long-term disability: n=1,023 contracts, Midwest, 101-500 covered lives
Voluntary / worksite: n=1,592 contracts, Midwest, 1-100 covered lives
Short-term disability: n=774 contracts, Midwest, 101-500 covered lives
Life: n=1,666 contracts, Midwest, 101-500 covered lives
Vision: n=2,257 contracts, Midwest, 101-500 covered lives

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

Everything in this table is from the 2025 filing. These 11 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. Not comparable: Rate is above 40% of premium on a core line, or 100% on a voluntary line

Plans on file

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PN 501ARGUS COMPANIES, INC. HEALTH PLAN118 participants (2025)

HealthDentalLife insuranceShort-term disabilityLong-term disabilityApprenticeship / trainingOtherSelf-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 setup3 brokers across benefit lines

Most

Peer benchmarkProfessional Servicesn=262 · regional peers

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How do similar employers compare?

Employers in the same peer group (Professional 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. 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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