Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2022
Washington University in St. Louis Retirement Plan
Data updated 2026-07-24
- $5.9B
- Total assets
- 15,925
- Participants
- 100th
- Percentile by assets
- $369,038
- Avg per participant
Official DOL plan name: Washington University Retirement Savings Plan · Sponsored by Washington University in St. Louis · Illinois · Educational Services
$5.9B in assets, 15,925 participants
Washington University in St. Louis's Washington University Retirement Savings Plan reported $5.9B in total assets and 15,925 participants in its 2022 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 100th percentile by assets among filed plans. Figures are as reported by the plan sponsor to the Department of Labor, not audited or endorsed by PlainRetire.
- 100th percentile by assets (of 139,258 plans)
What the 2022 filing shows
Washington University Retirement Savings Plan holds $5.9B for 15,925 participants - about $369,038 per participant, among the largest 1% of all filed plans, down 11.4% over the 2022 plan year.
- $5.9B
- total plan assets (2022 EOY)
- 15,925
- covered participants
- 100th
- percentile by assets (of 139,258 plans)
- $369,038
- avg assets per participant
The plan reported a net loss of $757M for the year, a single-year figure driven by markets and benefit payments, not a measure of plan health.
Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2022
What the Filing Says About Washington University Retirement Savings Plan
Washington University Retirement Savings Plan is an Other retirement plan sponsored by Washington University in St. Louis, headquartered in Illinois. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2022 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $5.9B in total end-of-year assets and covers 15,925 participants across the Educational Services industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 430653611, and the plan has been effective since 1936-06-08. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.
Year over year, total assets pulled back noticeably from $6.6B at the beginning of 2022 to $5.9B at year-end - down 11.4%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $5.9B, with reported net income of -$757M driven by investment returns, contributions received, and benefit payments during the period. These figures reflect what the plan administrator certified on Schedule H or Schedule I of the Form 5500 annual return and can be compared against 2 prior plan-year filings from the same sponsor shown below.
Across the 3 plan years Washington University in St. Louis has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $5.9B to $7.5B, a gain of 27.3%, while reported participants moved from 15,925 to 26,975 (+69.4%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $7.5B; the softest was 2022 at $5.9B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $5.9B in assets across 1 plan covering 15,925 participants; 2023 - $6.7B in assets across 1 plan covering 25,521 participants; 2024 - $7.5B in assets across 1 plan covering 26,975 participants.
By assets, Washington University Retirement Savings Plan outranks nearly all the 139,258 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2022 plan year, and holds roughly 59x the national average plan size of $100M and 730 average participants.
Asset totals and participant counts reflect a single plan year snapshot and can change materially with market conditions, plan mergers, or workforce changes. Fields such as "net income" include both realized investment performance and contribution/distribution flows, a single-year figure does not by itself indicate plan health or participant outcomes. This page summarizes public DOL disclosures for research and educational purposes only and is not retirement, tax, legal, or financial advice. Before making decisions about your own retirement benefits or evaluating an employer's plan, verify the underlying filing directly via the DOL EFAST2 system and consult a qualified professional.
How the percentile is calculated: we count every plan that filed a 2022 Form 5500 with a reported end-of-year asset figure (139,258 plans), rank Washington University Retirement Savings Plan against all of them by total assets, and report the share of those plans it outranks. A plan reporting no asset figure for the year is excluded from the ranking rather than assumed to be zero.
Financial Summary (2022)
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $6.6B |
|---|---|
| Total Assets (End of Year) | $5.9B |
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $5.9B |
| Net Income | -$757M |
| Plan Type | Other |
| Employer EIN | 430653611 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1936-06-08 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Washington University in St. Louis)
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 15,925 | $5.9B |
| 2023 | 1 | 25,521 | $6.7B |
| 2024 | 1 | 26,975 | $7.5B |
Nearby Other Plans in Illinois
Peer Other plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
Washington University Retirement Savings Plan vs. nearby Other plans in Illinois, assets vs. participants
- Northwestern University Retirement Plan $3.5B · 9,465
- The University of Chicago Contributory Retirement Plan $3.1B · 4,552
- Northshore University Healthsystem Tax Deferred Annuity Plan $1.8B · 13,159
- The University of Chicago Supplemental Retirement Plan $1.5B · 7,855
- Argonne National Laboratory 403(b) Employee Retirement Plan $1.4B · 3,664
Similar-Sized Other Plans Nationally
Other plans in other states closest to Washington University Retirement Savings Plan by total assets, not by location.
- The University of Pennsylvania Matching Plan (PA) $5.5B · 13,262
- Cleveland Clinic Savings and Investment Plan (OH) $6.3B · 51,726
- University of Rochester Retirement Program (NY) $6.4B · 27,581
- Yale University Retirement Account Plan (CT) $6.4B · 11,281
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What this filing means
Ways to act on Washington University Retirement Savings Plan's numbers.
- By total assets, Washington University Retirement Savings Plan ranks among the largest 1% of all filed plans. See the largest plans
- Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar Other plans in Illinois. Compare plans
- Washington University in St. Louis's sponsor-wide assets have grown 27.3% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Educational Services plans
- An Other plan works differently from other retirement plan types, understand the structural differences before comparing. Compare plan types
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), Form 5500 public disclosure dataset. Plan year 2022.
Source: DOL EFAST2 filing system (efast.dol.gov) - original filing retrieval by EIN 430653611.
Reference: IRS Publication 560, Retirement Plans for Small Business, contribution-limit rules.
Reference: IRS Publication 590-B, Distributions from IRAs, RMD rules under SECURE Act 2.0.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure on PlainRetire is rendered directly from the Department of Labor's Form 5500 annual return filings, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-07-24.