Overview
Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plans
Nonqualified Deferred Compensation (NQDC) Plans are used by plan sponsors who want to give back to valued employees whose leadership and expertise are hard to match. There are four major types of non-qualified plans: deferred-compensation plans, executive bonus plans, group carve-out plans, and split-dollar life insurance plans.
NQDC plans help attract, retain, and reward executives and other highly compensated employees. This plan type can be a powerful tool in providing an ownership-like experience for an employee while offering additional incentives and benefits that cannot be provided with traditional retirement plans.
Why Choose FuturePlan for Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plans?
FuturePlan offers high-touch personalized service from local TPAs backed by the strength and security of a large national firm.
Breadth of experience
FuturePlan experts have been designing and implementing (NQDC) plans since 1980 across all industry sectors.
Service Teams
We have highly specialized service teams to exclusively support NQDC plans and provide customized communications, education and participant websites for the plan sponsor.
Expert Consulting
FuturePlan has decades of industry expertise to leverage your behalf. We consult on plan design, plan dc plan document and implementation, investments, and corporate financial reporting to name just a few.
Ideal Candidates
NQDC programs are ideal for start-ups to very large organizations. Ideal candidates generally include:
- Plan Sponsors who want to create a performance-driven environment or a transition plan for successors.
- Firms wanting to provide key employees with handsome rewards without creating an immediate tax burden and allow employees to defer taxes until retirement (ideally when they are in a lower tax bracket).
- Any plan sponsor who wants to offer future benefits without the legal requirement to fund those benefits, as in the case of a defined benefit plan, for example.
Plan Advantages
Attract and Retain Key Employees
Significant benefits can be offered at a future date or forfeited unless certain conditions are met. This can ensure a long-term commitment by an employee.
Income Replacement
NQDC benefits, in addition to a qualified plan, can allow key employees to retire with total pay replacement.
Bypasses Testing Restraints
These plans are exempt from nondiscrimination and top-heavy testing that qualified plans are subject to.
Let’s Work Together
If you’re interested in learning more about our Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plans and other plans we offer and services we provide, fill out this form and one of our dedicated FuturePlan team members will reach out to you.
