US Ecology, Inc. 401(k) Savings and Retirement Plan

Profit Sharing · DOL Form 5500 · 2022

What the Filing Says About US Ecology, Inc. 401(k) Savings and Retirement Plan

US Ecology, Inc. 401(k) Savings and Retirement Plan is a Profit Sharing retirement plan sponsored by US Ecology, Inc., headquartered in Idaho. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2022 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $193M in total end-of-year assets and covers 2,848 participants across the Administrative & Support Services industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 953889638, and the plan has been effective since 1987-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets pulled back noticeably from $223M at the beginning of 2022 to $193M at year-end - down 13.5%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $193M, with reported net income of -$30M 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 1 prior plan-year filing from the same sponsor shown below.

Across the 2 plan years US Ecology, Inc. has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2023), sponsor-wide plan assets have no comparable total-assets figures across every year, while reported participants moved from 2,848 to 2,567 (-9.9%). Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $193M in assets across 1 plan covering 2,848 participants; 2023 - N/A in assets across 1 plan covering 2,567 participants.

By assets, US Ecology, Inc. 401(k) Savings and Retirement Plan outranks 96% of the 139,258 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2022 plan year, and holds roughly 1.9x 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 US Ecology, Inc. 401(k) Savings and Retirement 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.