Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2022
Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan
Data updated 2026-08-25
- $2.0B
- Total assets Very large vs avg
- 7,743
- Participants Very large workforce
- 99th
- Percentile by assets National rank
- $260,752
- Avg per participant Above avg balance/head
Official DOL plan name: Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan · Sponsored by Southern California Gas Company · California · Utilities
$2.0B in assets, 7,743 participants
Southern California Gas Company's Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan reported $2.0B in total assets and 7,743 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.
- #694 in Utilities (738 peers)
Coverage in California
Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan covers 7,743 participants in California, 12x the typical California plan (state average ~630 per filing). Assets: $2.0B.
- #694
- in Utilities (738 peers)
- -23.2%
- assets change YoY
- 20×
- vs typical plan assets (national mean)
The plan reported a net loss of $611M for the year, a single-year figure driven by markets and benefit payments, not a measure of plan health.
Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan's outsized position by total assets
Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan vs every filed plan by assets
End-of-year total assets · plan year 2022 · DOL Form 5500
$2,019,002,439 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
Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan's large-plan peer group by participant headcount
Plan-year 2022 Form 5500 filings with a reported participant count, partitioned by headcount band, not by assets. Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan lands in the large band (7,743 participants).
Plan-year Form 5500 strip
Filing strip 951240705 · Southern California Gas Company PY 2022 · Defined Benefit (Pension)
Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan · $2.0B · 7,743 · 99th
- IND $2.0B
- IND 7,743
- IND 99th
- IND Defined Benefit (Pension)
- IND near Celanese Americas Retirement Pension Plan
- IND ind #694
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 Utilities retirement plans → · Plans in California →
Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan in the asset neighbourhood
California filing particulars
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $2.6B |
|---|---|
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $2.0B |
| Net Income | -$611M |
| Employer EIN | 951240705 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1932-09-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Southern California Gas Company)
Sponsor-wide plan assets over time
All Southern California Gas Company plans reported in each filing year
- Latest sponsor-wide plan assets
- $5.4B 22.993273471748328% vs 2022
- 2024 filing year
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | 16,326 | $4.4B |
| 2023 | 2 | 16,852 | $5.0B |
| 2024 | 2 | 17,516 | $5.4B |
Nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) Plans in California
Peer Defined Benefit (Pension) plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
- Kaiser Permanente Retirement Plan $31.9B · 126,331
- Pacific Gas and Electric Company Retirement Plan $17.1B · 25,709
- Retirement Plan for Physicians and Salaried Employees of the Permanente Medical Group, Inc. $10.4B · 19,326
- Disney Salaried Pension Plan D $9.2B · 11,405
- Wells Fargo & Company Cash Balance Plan $8.8B · 59,141
Scale composition for Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan
Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan reports $2.0B in end-of-year assets across 7,743 participants (0.016% of the $12.3T held by all Form 5500 filers in the national rollup , and 0.008% of 93,925,755 covered participants) - about $260,752 per participant (1.9x the national average assets-per-participant) . Net income for plan year 2022 was -$611M.
This plan identity (EIN 951240705, plan #001) has 3 Form 5500 filings on file from 2022 to 2024 , with end-of-year assets moving from $2.0B to $2.4B (+16.8%) while covered participants moved from 7,743 to 8,518 . Single-year sparse filers cannot show that trail.
| Plan year | Participants | EOY assets | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7,743 | $2.0B | This page |
| 2023 | 8,002 | $2.3B | Open filing |
| 2024 · index core | 8,518 | $2.4B | Open filing |
The same sponsor also keeps 2 other index-core plans on PlainRetire:
- Southern California Gas Company Retirement Savings Plan (401(k), $3.1B, 8,998 participants)
- Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan (Defined Benefit (Pension), $2.4B, 8,518 participants)
Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan's out-of-state Defined Benefit (Pension) peers by assets and headcount
Outside California, the nearest Defined Benefit (Pension) by assets is Celanese Americas Retirement Pension Plan in TX ($2.0B); by covered participants it is Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation Retirement Plan in MD (7,725 participants). Same-state nearby plans are listed separately above.
Closest by plan assets
Nearest other-state filings by tot_assets_eoy ($2.0B here).
- Celanese Americas Retirement Pension Plan (TX) $2.0B · 1,310
- Northrop Grumman Retirement Plan B (VA) $2.0B · 1,859
- Retirement Program Plan for Employees of Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC at the U.S. Department of Energy at Oak Ridge, Tennessee (TN) $2.0B · 2,920
- The Kroger Consolidated Retirement Benefit Plan Spin Off (OH) $2.0B · 4,998
Similar participant headcount
Nearest other-state filings by covered participants (7,743 participants); asset peers above are excluded.
- Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation Retirement Plan (MD) 7,725 · 18 off
- Rochester General Health System Employee Retirement Plan (NY) 7,714 · 29 off
- The Albany Medical Center Retirement Plan (NY) 7,778 · 35 off
- Textron Master Retirement Plan (RI) 7,702 · 41 off
DOL Form 5500 plan year 2022. Asset totals can differ widely at the same headcount; neither axis is a quality rating.