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Benefits broker · Plan year 2024 · Form 5500 Schedule A

Burnham Benefits

Irvine, CA

Filed under 25 names, including Burnham Benefits Insurance Services; Burnham Benefits Ins Services; Burnham Financial Services; Burnham Benefits Insurance; Burnham Benefits Insurance Service; Burnham Fin SRVS an Alera GRP Agcy; and others. BenefitsLedger groups a firm's offices together.

Burnham Benefits collected $18M in commissions and fees from 227 employer health plans in plan year 2024 filings, ranking #36 among 12,126 brokers named in the public record. Most of its named clients are in California.

Commissions + fees
$18M
$14M commissions · $3.4M fees
Employer plans
227
686 contracts
Rank
#36
top 1% of 12,126 brokers
Median rate
n/a
fewer than 10 insured medical plans

Largest clients

Employers whose filings reported the most compensation to this broker.

EmployerPaid to brokerParticipants
Liberty Utilities Co. · Arizona$830,5582,406
Kaiser Aluminum Fabricated Products, LLC · Tennessee$645,2613,657
Align Technology · California$554,4512,242
Hitachi Solutions America, LTD. · California$545,424707
Sac Health System · California$468,861560
Auctane, Inc. (formerly Stamps.Com, Inc.) · Texas$409,939981
Element Materials Technology Holding USA Inc. · Ohio$386,9122,497
The Trade Desk, Inc. · California$376,5711,996
Public Health Institute · California$373,167904
Dermalogica, LLC · California$349,498498
Carmel Partners Management, LLC · California$323,881300
Harley Ellis Devereaux · Michigan$296,203378
KTGY Group, Inc. · California$279,201420
The Baldwin Group Colleague, Inc. · Florida$265,6263,985
Episource LLC · California$254,786348
California College of the Arts · California$244,596449
Zwift, Inc. · California$239,065321
KSL Ii Management Operations, LLC · California$236,440921
American Business Bank · California$224,726237
International Education Corporation · California$216,9131,357
J. McCullough Corporation · California$216,527890
Hansen and Adkins Auto Transport · California$200,847745
Nuvision Federal Credit Union · California$199,874505
Prosearch Strategies Inc · California$195,034176
Alterra Mountain Company U.S. Inc. · Colorado$191,5703,302

Source: DOL Form 5500 Schedule A Part I, plan year 2024, grouped by broker name as filed. Dataset built October 24, 2026.

Where its clients are

Employer plans naming this broker, by employer state.

175 plans
10 plans
4 plans
4 plans
4 plans
4 plans
3 plans
3 plans

How much does Burnham Benefits earn from employer health plans?

In plan year 2024 filings, employers reported paying Burnham Benefits $17,641,245: $14,284,634 in commissions and $3,356,611 in fees, across 686 insurance contracts at 227 employers. That ranks #36 of 12,126 brokers in the public record.

What commission rate is paid on plans Burnham Benefits brokers?

Not enough fully insured medical plans name Burnham Benefits as the sole broker to compute a stable rate. The national median is 3.8% of premium.

Which employers use Burnham Benefits?

The largest reported payers in 2024 were Liberty Utilities Co., Kaiser Aluminum Fabricated Products, LLC, Align Technology. California is its biggest state by employer count (175 plans).

Amounts are what employers reported on their own filings. They do not include compensation from carriers that is not tied to a specific contract, and names are grouped exactly as filed, so related entities can appear separately. How this record is built.

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