Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2022
National Telecommunications Cooperative Association Pension Plan
Data updated 2026-08-25
- $2.2B
- Total assets Very large vs avg
- 10,724
- Participants Very large workforce
- 99th
- Percentile by assets National rank
- $206,605
- Avg per participant Above avg balance/head
Official DOL plan name: Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members · Sponsored by National Telecommunications Cooperative Association · Virginia · Information & Media
$2.2B in assets, 10,724 participants
National Telecommunications Cooperative Association's Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members reported $2.2B in total assets and 10,724 participants in its 2022 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 99th 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.
- #2,874 in Information & Media (2,911 peers)
Coverage in Virginia
Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members covers 10,724 participants in Virginia, 14x the typical Virginia plan (state average ~782 per filing). Assets: $2.2B.
- #2,874
- in Information & Media (2,911 peers)
- -21.4%
- assets change YoY
- 22×
- vs typical plan assets (national mean)
The plan reported a net loss of $602M for the year, a single-year figure driven by markets and benefit payments, not a measure of plan health.
Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members's outsized position by total assets
Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members vs every filed plan by assets
End-of-year total assets · plan year 2022 · DOL Form 5500
$2,215,632,870 Top 1% higher than 99% of 139,123 filed plans
Dashed line + filled bar = this entry, among filed plans.
Source U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings (EBSA) · plan year 2022
Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members's mega-plan peer group by participant headcount
Plan-year 2022 Form 5500 filings with a reported participant count, partitioned by headcount band, not by assets. Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members is a mega filing (10,724 participants), the rightmost band on the breakdown.
DOL schedule card
Filing strip 520741336 · National Telecommunications Cooperative Association PY 2022 · Defined Benefit (Pension)
Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members · $2.2B · 10,724 · 99th
- TYPE $2.2B
- TYPE 10,724
- TYPE 99th
- TYPE Defined Benefit (Pension)
- TYPE near Csx Pension Plan
- TYPE ind #2874
Stamps derive from this plan's Form 5500 line items (assets, participants, type, EIN, cohort placement) - not a quality rating of the sponsor. Read with Information & Media retirement plans → · Plans in Virginia →
Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members in the asset neighbourhood
Virginia filing particulars
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $2.8B |
|---|---|
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $2.2B |
| Net Income | -$602M |
| Employer EIN | 520741336 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1959-01-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (National Telecommunications Cooperative Association)
Sponsor-wide plan assets over time
All National Telecommunications Cooperative Association plans reported in each filing year
- Latest sponsor-wide plan assets
- $5.9B 21.4517316107359% vs 2022
- 2024 filing year
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | 32,763 | $4.8B |
| 2023 | 2 | 32,322 | $5.3B |
| 2024 | 2 | 33,122 | $5.9B |
Nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) Plans in Virginia
Peer Defined Benefit (Pension) plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
- Northrop Grumman Pension Plan $18.3B · 14,867
- Retirement Security Plan $9.4B · 54,531
- Ng Space&mission Systems Corp Salaried Pension Pla $8.1B · 7,799
- Dominion Energy Pension Plan $7.3B · 12,832
- Sheet Metal Workers' National Pension Fund $7.2B · 61,068
Scale composition for Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members
Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members reports $2.2B in end-of-year assets across 10,724 participants (0.018% of the $12.3T held by all Form 5500 filers in the national rollup , and 0.011% of 93,925,755 covered participants) - about $206,605 per participant (1.5x the national average assets-per-participant) . Net income for plan year 2022 was -$602M.
This plan identity (EIN 520741336, plan #333) has 3 Form 5500 filings on file from 2022 to 2024 , with end-of-year assets moving from $2.2B to $2.5B (+13.7%) while covered participants moved from 10,724 to 9,988 . Single-year sparse filers cannot show that trail.
| Plan year | Participants | EOY assets | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 10,724 | $2.2B | This page |
| 2023 | 10,052 | $2.3B | Open filing |
| 2024 · index core | 9,988 | $2.5B | Open filing |
The same sponsor also keeps 2 other index-core plans on PlainRetire:
- Savings Plan for Employees of Ntca and Its Members (401(k), $3.4B, 23,134 participants)
- Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members (Defined Benefit (Pension), $2.5B, 9,988 participants)
Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members's out-of-state Defined Benefit (Pension) peers by assets and headcount
Outside Virginia, the nearest Defined Benefit (Pension) by assets is Csx Pension Plan in FL ($2.2B); by covered participants it is Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan in NJ (10,752 participants). Same-state nearby plans are listed separately above.
Closest by plan assets
Nearest other-state filings by tot_assets_eoy ($2.2B here).
- Csx Pension Plan (FL) $2.2B · 2,728
- Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation Retirement Plan (MD) $2.2B · 7,725
- Transamerica Pension Plan (IA) $2.2B · 6,789
- Valero Energy Corporation Pension Plan (TX) $2.2B · 6,677
Similar participant headcount
Nearest other-state filings by covered participants (10,724 participants); asset peers above are excluded.
- Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan (NJ) 10,752 · 28 off
- Laborers National Pension Fund (TX) 10,753 · 29 off
- Frontier Communications Pension Plan (CT) 10,653 · 71 off
- Western Conference of Teamsters Supp Benefit Plan (CA) 10,846 · 122 off
DOL Form 5500 plan year 2022. Asset totals can differ widely at the same headcount; neither axis is a quality rating.