SEQUOIA EQUITIES, INC.

EIN 94-2223344 · CA · Real Estate

Compensation disclosed3 brokers of record, 2011–2025As reported on Form 5500 (Schedules A and C), U.S. Department of Labor.

Employer-paid broker pay2025: $228,8052024 · analysis: $236,4292023: $252,0522022: $253,4432021: $238,7362020: $198,7962019: $153,1052018: $167,3252017: $155,7562016: $124,6682015: $118,0612014: $73,2872013: $64,3492012: $63,2872011: $60,339

Benchmarked against: Real Estate · 101–500 employees · same industry, in-state · n=41 employers (your plan plus 40 peers)

164

(2024)

Fully insured

Funding

$236,429

Broker pay, employer-paid lines (2024)

$120.14

2024 · 99th pct vs peers · n=41

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

Broker pay as a share of insured premium: 3.9% (peer median 5.7%, 8th percentile).

Without the 2 low-disclosure peers, this plan is at the 99th percentile of 39 comparable plans (your plan plus 38 peers).

Per-participant and share-of-premium comparisons differ because your plan insures more lines than most peers. The line-by-line rates below are the most direct comparison.

Showing 2024, the latest year with a complete peer group. A 2025 filing is on file and appears in broker history; it is not benchmarked yet.

Why 2024?

The figures above use 2024, the latest year we can compare with similar employers. A filing for 2025 is on file. Most employers have not filed for 2025 yet, so there is no complete peer group to compare it with. Rows for 2025 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.

Medical

3.5%

Peer median 4.7%

Within peer range

Dental

10.0%

Peer median 5.0%

Above peer range

Vision

3.6%

Peer median 6.3%

Below peer range

Long-term disability

10.3%

Peer median 13.2%

Within peer range

Short-term disability

9.7%

Peer median 12.7%

Within peer range

Life

10.5%

Peer median 13.7%

Within peer range

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Where the $236,429 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 / trainingSeveranceOther

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

Year:

The 2025 filing is on file and its figures are shown as filed, but most employers have not filed 2025 yet, so it is not compared with peers. The analysis year is 2024, 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 2024 — the same year as the headline figure and per-participant rate above. The 2025 filing is on file and its figures are shown as filed, but most employers have not filed 2025 yet, so it is not compared with peers.

Benefit line	Contract	Rate	vs. peers	Position
Medical · contract C22339	Blue Cross of California	3.5%	med 4.7%	Within peer range
Medical · contract 28182	Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.	3.2%	med 4.7%	Below peer range
Medical · contract 20224	Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest	3.4%	med 4.9%	Below peer range
Dental	Delta Dental of California	10.0%	med 5.0%	Above peer range
Vision	Vision Service Plan	3.6%	med 6.3%	Below peer range
Long-term disabilityfiled as “Long-term disability, Other (EMPLO…”	The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company	10.3%	med 13.2%	Within peer range
Short-term disability	The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company	9.7%	med 12.7%	Within peer range
Lifefiled as “Life, Other (ACCIDENTAL DEATH AND …”	The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company	10.5%	med 13.7%	Within peer range

How the peer group for each line was built

Medical: n=4,521 contracts, West, 101-500 covered lives
Medical: n=4,437 contracts, West, 1-100 covered lives
Dental: n=579 contracts, West, 501-2500 covered lives
Vision: n=2,093 contracts, West, 101-500 covered lives
Long-term disability: n=1,011 contracts, West, 101-500 covered lives
Short-term disability: n=581 contracts, West, 101-500 covered lives
Life: n=2,331 contracts, West, 101-500 covered lives

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

Everything in this table is from the 2024 filing. These 8 contracts are a subset of the broker compensation disclosed for that year. The remainder sits on bundled multi-line contracts, contracts with no premium reported, or Schedule C service-provider fees, none of which carry a comparable single-line rate. 2025 is not rated here. Its rows appear in Broker history above as filed — pick 2025 on the year chips there to see them.

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. A rate on bundled multi-line premium is not comparable to a single-line rate, so bundled contracts are never given a peer position.

Plans on file

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PN 501SEQUOIA EQUITIES, INC. HEALTH AND WELFARE PLAN318 participants (2025)

HealthDentalLife insuranceShort-term disabilityLong-term disabilityApprenticeship / trainingSeveranceOtherFully insured · 15 years on file

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PN 505SEQUOIA EQUITIES, INC. GROUP EAP0 participants (2024)

OtherFully insured · 14 years on file

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PN 504SEQUOIA EQUITIES, INC. GROUP LTD PLAN0 participants (2024)

Apprenticeship / trainingOtherFully insured · 7 years on file

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PN 503SEQUOIA EQUITIES, INC. GROUP STD PLAN0 participants (2024)

Long-term disabilityFully insured · 7 years on file

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PN 502SEQUOIA EQUITIES, INC. GROUP LIFE PLAN0 participants (2024)

DentalSeveranceFully insured · 7 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.

At a glance

Primary brokerLimited on public pages

Years on file15

Lead broker continuitySame primary broker

Broker setup1 broker in 20243 across all years

Most

Peer benchmarkReal Estaten=41 · state peers

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How do similar employers compare?

Employers in the same peer group (Real Estate, 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: 2024; newest plan year with a filing 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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