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Fairfield, New Jersey employer health plans: what they cost and who gets paid

Updated plan year 2024, the most recent complete year

21 employers in Fairfield, New Jersey filed health plans with 100 or more participants for plan year 2024, covering 7,777 participants. They reported $955,795 in insurance premiums and $2.0M in broker commissions and fees. Against 2023, premiums were down 40.1% and broker pay fell 15.7%.

Employer plans
21
7,777 participants
Premiums
$955,795
−40.1% vs 2023
Broker pay
$2.0M
−15.7% vs 2023 · 19 disclosed
Median rate
n/a
too few insured medical plans

Funding: 6 fully insured · 10 self-funded · 5 mixed. 15 of 21 plans pay at least some medical claims from the employer's own assets.

Largest employer health plans in Fairfield

Fairfield employers reporting the most insurance premium across every Schedule A contract, with what they paid brokers.

EmployerPremiumsBroker payParticipantsTop broker
Spectrum Automotive Holdings LLC$437,417$208,073725NFP
Elo Inc Gramon School$223,049$217,706336Acrisure
Wallpaper Imports, Inc.$122,882$5,423212USI Insurance Services
The Pomptonian$95,472$79,225191Brown & Brown
Consumer Product Testing Co., Inc.$76,975$107,925132Ap Benefit Advisors LLC d/b/a Assur
Kyocera Document Solutions America, Inc.$0$135,0021,319Gis Benefits Inc.
New Jersey B.A.C. Health Fund$0$58,199748The Segal Company Inc.
Kearny Bank$0$446,792650Bankers Cooperative Group, Inc.
1111 Systems Inc$0$85,942500Marsh McLennan Agency
Arthur Schuman Inc.$0$208,436428Mercer
Acuative Corporation$0—343—
Infucare RX, Inc.$0$69,692314New York Life Agents of Record
Fleetwash Inc$0$55,540312Keith
Polish and Slavic Federal Credit Union$0$91,081286Acrisure
A-V Services, Inc$0$40,749283Robert D Shaara
Protech Powder Coatings Inc.$0$17,736225Brown & Brown
Kent International, Inc.$0$34,359195The Hilb Group of South Carolina
Woodmont Properties LLC$0$16,538175Conner Strong & Buckelew
Suburban Disposal$0—151—
Ned Stevens Gutter Cleaning$0$70,807134EPIC Insurance Brokers
New Jersey Respiratory Associates$0$58,895118Martin Insurance Group

Source: DOL Form 5500 Schedule A, plan year 2024; employers are grouped by the sponsor's mailing city as filed. Self-funded employers show only stop-loss and ancillary premium.

Who gets paid

Commissions and fees reported by Fairfield employers, with the number of employer plans naming each broker.

BrokerCommissions + feesPlans
Acrisure$273,7683
Bankers Cooperative Group, Inc.$243,1171
Mercer$208,4361
Donald C Savoy Inc$203,6751
NFP$137,1151
Brown & Brown$88,4382
Gis Benefits Inc$80,0191
EPIC Insurance Brokers$74,8342
Conner Strong & Buckelew$68,7182
Marsh McLennan Agency$63,1871

Largest medical carriers

Medical premium written for these employers.

Fairfield against New Jersey and the U.S.

Medians over the same definitions on every BenefitsLedger page: commission rate on commission-paying, fully insured medical plans; broker pay per employer that disclosed any; medical premium per covered person.

FairfieldNew JerseyUnited States
Employer plans211,52158,547
Median commission raten/a5.4%3.8%
Middle half of ratesn/a2.7% – 7.3%2.7% – 5.0%
Median broker pay per employer$70,807$79,574$72,628
Medical premium per covered personn/a$7,942$7,274
Plans reporting no commission015933

Year over year. In plan year 2023, 24 Fairfield employers reported $1.6M in premiums and $2.4M in broker pay for 7,161 participants; in 2024 it was $955,795 and $2.0M for 7,777 participants (premiums −40.1%, broker pay −15.7%).

Source: DOL Form 5500 and Schedule A, plan years 2024 and 2023, employer health plans with 100 or more participants; built October 24, 2026. Medians need at least 10 rated plans to be shown for a city. Methodology.

How much do Fairfield employers pay health insurance brokers?

21 Fairfield employers reported $2,008,120 in broker commissions and fees on their 2024 Form 5500 filings, 19 of them disclosing at least some compensation. Too few fully insured medical plans in Fairfield reported premium to compute a stable commission rate; the New Jersey median is 5.4% and the U.S. median is 3.8%. In dollars, the median Fairfield employer that disclosed broker pay reported $70,807.

Which Fairfield employers have the largest health plans?

By insurance premium reported for 2024, Spectrum Automotive Holdings LLC ($437,417), Elo Inc Gramon School ($223,049), Wallpaper Imports, Inc. ($122,882) lead. 21 Fairfield employers are listed on this page; every employer in the record has its own page.

Which brokers and carriers are paid the most in Fairfield?

By compensation reported by Fairfield employers, the largest brokers are Acrisure ($273,768, 3 plans), Bankers Cooperative Group, Inc. ($243,117, 1 plans), Mercer ($208,436, 1 plans). By medical premium, the largest carriers are Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company, Aetna Life Insurance Company.

Are Fairfield employer health plans self-funded or fully insured?

Of 21 Fairfield employer plans, 6 are fully insured, 10 are self-funded and 5 mix insured and self-funded coverage. Self-funded plans report only stop-loss and ancillary contracts on Schedule A, so their premium and broker pay understate total spend.

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