Small Business and Self-Employed Retirement Plans
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Ideal for self-employed individuals and business owners (and their company-employed spouse) with no other employees.
Flexibility to choose deductible business contribution percentage each year, up to 25% of total compensation1
Both business owner and spouse may choose to make either pretax or Roth contributions
Tax-deferred growth potential for pretax money; tax-free for Roth
Low or no annual fees
Ideal for self-employed individuals and business owners willing to make contributions for employees.
Flexibility to choose contribution level each year, up to 25% of total compensation1; the same percentage must be contributed to all employees' accounts
- Employees may not contribute
- Tax-deferred growth potential
Low or no annual fees
Ideal for self-employed individuals and business owners with under 100 employees. Allows both employer and employee contributions.
Employer chooses each year to contribute either a matching contribution up to 3% of compensation1 or 2% non-elective contribution for each eligible employee2
Employees (including the owner) may choose to make contributions, up to the lesser of: 100% of compensation or, $13,500 ($16,500 if age 50 or older) for 2020 and 2021.
Tax-deferred growth potential
Low or no annual fees
Ideal for employers who want to maximize flexibility in plan features, contributions, investment choices, and more.
Wide variety of deductible business contribution and/or matching options
Employees (including the owner) may choose to make either pretax or Roth contributions, up to the lesser of: 100% of compensation or, $19,500 ($26,000 if age 50 or older)1 for 2020 and 2021.
Tax-deferred growth potential for pretax money; tax-free for Roth
Broad range of T. Rowe Price and non-T. Rowe Price investments
Greater reporting requirements and costs compared with other plans
Fees vary by plan
Investing
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Performance
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Cost
No setup fees, loads, or sales charges.
Low account fees.
Over 90% of our funds for individual investors have expense ratios below their peer category averages.4
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A retirement account should be considered a long-term investment. Retirement accounts generally have expenses and account fees, which may impact the value of the account. Early withdrawals are subject to taxes and possible penalties. For more detailed information about taxes, consult a tax attorney or accountant for advice.
1Maximum amount of compensation that can be used in determining contribution is $285,000 for tax year 2020 and $290,000 for tax year 2021. This amount is increased periodically for inflation.
2May reduce the 3% limit to a lower percentage but, in any event, not lower than 1%. May not lower the 3% limit for more than 2 calendar years out of the 5-year period ending with the calendar year the reduction is effective.
3Investment professionals as of 12/31/2021.
4Source: Lipper Inc. 218 of 235 funds (excluding institutional and bank institutional funds as defined by Lipper) more than 6 months old had expense ratios below their Lipper averages based on fiscal year-end data available as of 3/31/2022.