Alternatives to Eide Bailly LLP for 401(k) Audits

Peer audit practices selected by overlapping state footprint and similar engagement volume, from plan year 2024 Form 5500 filings. A neutral comparison: no firm pays to appear, and listing is not a recommendation.

Last updated September 6, 2026 · Source data: plan year 2024 Form 5500 filings

Which firms are comparable to Eide Bailly LLP for 401(k) plan audits?

Eide Bailly LLP audited 1,144 retirement plans in plan year 2024 across 42 states and territories (#7 nationally). Closest comparable practices by footprint and volume: BDO USA, P.C. and RSM US LLP; the table below lists 10 firms with linked profiles.

Eide Bailly LLP at a glance

Eide Bailly LLP: plan year 2024 Form 5500 audit engagements (for comparison)
Measure	Value
Retirement plan audits (401(k), 403(b), pension)	1,144
All audited filings (incl. welfare plans)	1,204
States and territories with clients	42
National rank by retirement plan volume	#7 of 3,956
Average client size (participants)	1,441
Largest client (participants)	135,136
Largest state concentrations	MN 125 · ND 101 · OK 93

Full profile, including opinion mix and largest audited plans: Eide Bailly LLP.

Audit firms comparable to Eide Bailly LLP

Peer practices by footprint overlap and engagement volume relative to Eide Bailly LLP, plan year 2024
#	Firm	Retirement plans audited	States served	States shared with Eide Bailly LLP	Footprint overlap	Avg. client size
1	BDO USA, P.C.	1,237	45	36	28%	3,242
2	RSM US LLP	954	45	35	30%	1,490
3	Plante & Moran, PLLC	1,182	45	37	21%	1,896
4	Caron & Bletzer, PLLC	1,133	41	33	17%	863
5	Wipfli LLP	764	42	35	33%	1,071
6	CBIZ CPAS P.C.	1,616	48	39	30%	2,237
7	Pension Assurance LLP	918	42	35	25%	756
8	Crowe LLP	930	40	32	23%	4,730
9	CliftonLarsonAllen LLP	3,276	51	42	42%	1,502
10	Deloitte & Touche LLP	455	41	32	39%	14,274

Ordered by similarity to Eide Bailly LLP, not by size. Footprint overlap is the share of the two firms’ state distributions that coincide (100% = identical state mix). Candidates: firms with between 229 and 5,720 retirement plan audits (within 5× of Eide Bailly LLP’s volume). Average client size is the mean beginning-of-year participant count of the firm’s audited retirement plans.

Rankings derived from U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings, plan year 2024. Read the full methodology.

Where the footprints overlap

Eide Bailly LLP’s largest states and the comparable firms most active there, plan year 2024
State	Eide Bailly LLP plans	Comparable firms active in the state (plans audited)
Minnesota	125	CliftonLarsonAllen LLP (444), Wipfli LLP (63), RSM US LLP (47)
North Dakota	101	CliftonLarsonAllen LLP (9), Deloitte & Touche LLP (6), Wipfli LLP (3)
Oklahoma	93	RSM US LLP (7), CBIZ CPAS P.C. (5), CliftonLarsonAllen LLP (4)
South Dakota	86	RSM US LLP (9), CliftonLarsonAllen LLP (7), Deloitte & Touche LLP (3)
California	81	Pension Assurance LLP (586), CliftonLarsonAllen LLP (303), CBIZ CPAS P.C. (170)

State reflects the plan sponsor’s address on Form 5500. Each state link opens the full ranked directory for that state.

How these alternatives were selected

Every firm in the dataset with at least 25 retirement plan audits in plan year 2024 was scored against Eide Bailly LLP on two measures: footprint overlap — how closely its distribution of clients across states matches Eide Bailly LLP’s — and volume similarity — how close its engagement count is on a logarithmic scale. Candidates are first limited to a volume band around Eide Bailly LLP’s count (widened only when fewer than 8 firms qualify), then ranked by a weighted score (60% footprint, 40% volume). Ties resolve by volume, then name. The result is deterministic and rebuilds identically from the same filings.

What the score does not measure: audit quality, fees, staffing, industry focus, or fit for your plan. Volume and footprint indicate which firms do this work at comparable scale in the same places; they are a shortlist, not a verdict. Use each profile’s opinion mix and client-size figures, then the questions in how to switch 401(k) auditors to compare on what matters — EBPAQC membership, peer review results, team continuity, and a like-for-like fee.

Comparable-firm tables for other leading practices

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About this page

Generated from public U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings in which each firm is named as the plan’s independent qualified public accountant. None of the firms shown supplied, reviewed, or endorsed this comparison, and inclusion is neither a recommendation nor a criticism of any firm, including Eide Bailly LLP. Filing data can contain sponsor-entered errors; corrections are welcome via the about page.