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Employer health plan record · Plan year 2024 · Form 5500

Alphasix

Professional & technical services · Sterling, Virginia · EIN ending 9971

Updated Filing received by DOL

Alphasix, a professional & technical services employer in Sterling, Virginia, reported 113 participants in its health and welfare plan for plan year 2024. Its Form 5500 shows 2 insurance contracts with no premium reported and $51,734 in broker commissions and fees. The plan is a mix of insured and self-funded coverage. The Department of Labor received the filing on September 22, 2025, before the deadline.

Participants
113
plan year 2024
Premiums filed
none
premium not reported on 1 medical contract
Broker commissions + fees
$51,734
4 brokers
Commission rate
n/a
needs insured medical premium

Who was paid on Alphasix's plan

Schedule A, Part I lists each broker or agent paid on each insurance contract and the amount. Totals below add every contract Alphasix filed for 2024.

Broker or agentCommissionsFeesTotalContracts
Employee Benefits Corp of America · MC Lean, VA$19,089$4,091$23,1801
Business Benefits Group, Inc. · Fairfax, VA$9,425$1,841$11,2661
Gis Benefits, Inc. · Morris, IL$8,675$1,735$10,4101
Patriot Growth · Fairfax, VA$6,878$0$6,8781

Source: DOL Form 5500 Schedule A, Part I (broker commissions and fees), plan year 2024, as published in EBSA's 2024 "Latest" dataset. Part I names whoever the carrier paid, which can be a firm or an individual agent; both are public record. Amounts exclude pay from carriers not tied to a listed contract.

Insurance contracts and carriers

Every insurance contract reported on Schedule A: carrier, what it covers, people covered at year end, earned premium, and broker compensation.

Carrier · coverageCoveredPremiumBroker payRate
Anthem BCBShealth138—$23,180—
Metropolitan Life Insurance Companydental, vision, life, short-term disability, long-term disability250—$28,554—

Source: DOL Form 5500 Schedule A, plan year 2024. Self-funded medical coverage has no premium; amounts shown for it are stop-loss or administrative contracts.

How Alphasix compares

Medians across employers for plan year 2024, the most recent complete year. Commission rates use fully insured medical contracts only; dollar medians use every employer that disclosed broker pay.

Broker commissions + fees, dollars
Alphasix
$51,734
Commission rate, % of medical premium

Not computable: no insured medical premium on the filing.

Source: BenefitsLedger benchmarks from 58,547 employer health plans with 100 or more participants, plan year 2024. Methodology.

Filings and timeliness

Plans this employer filed under its EIN with a health benefit code. Large plans are due seven months after the plan year ends, or two and a half months later with an extension; amended filings carry the amendment date, so no timing is asserted for them.

PlanPlan year endReceived by DOLTimingParticipants
Alphasix Corporation Welfare Benefit Plan#501 · insurance, general assetsMay 31, 2025September 22, 2025before deadline113

Source: DOL Form 5500 Part I and signature dates; "late" means received after the extended deadline (the 15th day of the tenth month after plan year end). What a late Form 5500 costs.

How much did Alphasix pay in health insurance broker commissions in 2024?

Alphasix's 2024 Form 5500 reports $51,734 in broker commissions and fees across 2 insurance contracts ($44,067 in commissions, $7,667 in fees), with Employee Benefits Corp of America receiving the largest share.

Is Alphasix's health plan self-funded or fully insured?

The 2024 filing indicates the plan is a mix of insured and self-funded coverage. Medical coverage is written by Anthem BCBS.

How does Alphasix's broker compensation compare with similar employers?

A commission-to-premium ratio cannot be computed for Alphasix because the filing does not report medical premium on Schedule A (usual for self-funded plans). In dollars, employers with 100-199 participants that disclosed broker pay reported a median of $53,852.

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Record built October 24, 2026 from U.S. Department of Labor, EBSA Form 5500 datasets (2025, 2024, 2023 plan years, 'Latest' files). Filings can run 7 to 10 months behind the plan year; always confirm against current plan documents. BenefitsLedger is not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Labor. Open the DOL filing search.