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Employer health plan record · Plan year 2025 (latest filing) · Form 5500

Staffing Partners Holdings

Administrative & support services · Santa Barbara, California · EIN ending 9955

Updated Filing received by DOL

Staffing Partners Holdings, an administrative & support services employer in Santa Barbara, California, reported 903 participants in its health and welfare plan for plan year 2025. Its Form 5500 shows 13 insurance contracts with no premium reported and $300,077 in broker commissions and fees. The plan is a mix of insured and self-funded coverage. The Department of Labor received the filing on July 28, 2026, before the deadline.

Participants
903
+56.2% vs 2024
Premiums filed
none
premium not reported on 2 medical contracts
Broker commissions + fees
$300,077
+30.3% vs 2024
Commission rate
n/a
needs insured medical premium

Who was paid on Staffing Partners Holdings's plan

Schedule A, Part I lists each broker or agent paid on each insurance contract and the amount. Totals below add every contract Staffing Partners Holdings filed for 2025.

Broker or agentCommissionsFeesTotalContracts
OneDigital · Atlanta, GA$215,836$13,526$229,36219
Benefit Guaranty LLC · Greenville, SC$57,044$0$57,0441
Benefit Educators · Glenview, IL$0$5,000$5,0003
Southeast Insurance Group · Columbia, SC$4,058$0$4,0581
Web Benefits Design Corporation · Pittsburgh, PA$0$3,335$3,3353
H2h Enrollments, LLC · Phoenix, AZ$1,697$0$1,6973

Source: DOL Form 5500 Schedule A, Part I (broker commissions and fees), plan year 2025, as published in EBSA's 2025 "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
Unum Insurance Companycoverage not coded——$743—
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inchealth, prescription drug, HMO76—$25,524—
American Public Life Insurance Companydental, life, short-term disability109—$61,102—
Unum Life Insurance Company of Americashort-term disability, long-term disability149—$16,366—
Metropolitan General Insurance Companycoverage not coded87—$2,649—
Cigna Health and Life Insurance Companycoverage not coded262—$29,870—
Unum Life Insurance Company of Americalife231—$10,224—
Cigna Health and Life Insurance Companycoverage not coded90—$18,406—
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inchealth, prescription drug, HMO212—$74,197—
Unum Insurance Companycoverage not coded——$233—
Cigna Health and Life Insurance Companycoverage not coded221—$37,302—
Unum Life Insurance Company of Americalife713—$22,657—
Unum Insurance Companycoverage not coded——$804—

Source: DOL Form 5500 Schedule A, plan year 2025. Self-funded medical coverage has no premium; amounts shown for it are stop-loss or administrative contracts.

How Staffing Partners Holdings 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
Staffing Partners Holdings
$300,077
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.

Year over year

$230,325$300,077Broker pay20242025
Staffing Partners Holdings: premiums and broker commissions + fees, 2024 vs 2025
20242025Change
Participants578903+56.2%
Premiums filed$0$0not comparable
Broker commissions + fees$230,325$300,077+30.3%
Commission rate———

Source: DOL Form 5500 filings for plan years 2024 and 2025.

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
Staffing Partners Holdings, Inc. Employee Benefits Plan#501 · insurance, general assetsDecember 31, 2025July 28, 2026before deadline903

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 Staffing Partners Holdings pay in health insurance broker commissions in 2025?

Staffing Partners Holdings's 2025 Form 5500 reports $300,077 in broker commissions and fees across 13 insurance contracts ($278,216 in commissions, $21,861 in fees), with OneDigital receiving the largest share.

Is Staffing Partners Holdings's health plan self-funded or fully insured?

The 2025 filing indicates the plan is a mix of insured and self-funded coverage. Medical coverage is written by Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc.

How does Staffing Partners Holdings's broker compensation compare with similar employers?

A commission-to-premium ratio cannot be computed for Staffing Partners Holdings because the filing does not report medical premium on Schedule A (usual for self-funded plans). In dollars, employers with 500-999 participants that disclosed broker pay reported a median of $104,902.

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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.