Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2022

Raytheon Company Pension Plan

Data updated 2026-07-24

$4.7B
Total assets
4,467
Participants
100th
Percentile by assets
$1.1M
Avg per participant

Official DOL plan name: Raytheon Retirement Plan · Sponsored by Raytheon Company · Connecticut · Manufacturing

$4.7B in assets, 4,467 participants

Raytheon Company's Raytheon Retirement Plan reported $4.7B in total assets and 4,467 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

Raytheon Retirement Plan holds $4.7B for 4,467 participants - about $1.1M per participant, among the largest 1% of all filed plans, down 26.9% over the 2022 plan year.

$4.7B
total plan assets (2022 EOY)
4,467
covered participants
100th
percentile by assets (of 139,258 plans)
$1.1M
avg assets per participant

The plan reported a net loss of $1.7B for the year, a single-year figure driven by markets and benefit payments, not a measure of plan health.

State
Industry
Manufacturing

Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2022

What the Filing Says About Raytheon Retirement Plan

Raytheon Retirement Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by Raytheon Company, headquartered in Connecticut. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2022 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $4.7B in total end-of-year assets and covers 4,467 participants across the Manufacturing industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 951778500, and the plan has been effective since 1997-12-18. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets declined sharply from $6.5B at the beginning of 2022 to $4.7B at year-end - down 26.9%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $4.7B, with reported net income of -$1.7B 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 Raytheon Company has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have no comparable total-assets figures across every year, while reported participants moved from 82,193 to 1 (-100.0%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2022 at $16.3B; the softest was 2023 at N/A. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $16.3B in assets across 5 plans covering 82,193 participants; 2023 - N/A in assets across 3 plans covering 15,106 participants; 2024 - N/A in assets across 1 plan covering 1 participant.

By assets, Raytheon Retirement Plan outranks nearly all the 139,258 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2022 plan year, and holds roughly 48x 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 Raytheon 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.

Financial Summary (2022)

Total Assets (Beginning of Year)$6.5B
Total Assets (End of Year)$4.7B
Net Assets (End of Year)$4.7B
Net Income-$1.7B
Plan TypeDefined Benefit (Pension)
Employer EIN951778500
Plan Effective Date1997-12-18
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Raytheon Company)

$-5B$0B$5B$10B$15B$20B 202220232024 $16.3B $0B ▼ -100.0%
Total plan assets by year, all Raytheon Company 401(k) plans on file
Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 5 82,193 $16.3B
2023 3 15,106 N/A
2024 1 1 N/A

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the Raytheon Retirement Plan?
As of the 2022 Form 5500 filing, Raytheon Retirement Plan holds $4.7B in total assets with 4,467 participants. It is sponsored by Raytheon Company.
What type of plan is Raytheon Retirement Plan?
Raytheon Retirement Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) plan. It has been effective since 1997-12-18. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 951778500.
Who sponsors the Raytheon Retirement Plan?
Raytheon Retirement Plan is sponsored by Raytheon Company, located in Connecticut. The sponsor's EIN is 951778500 and the plan operates in the Manufacturing industry.
How did Raytheon Retirement Plan perform in 2022?
Raytheon Retirement Plan declined sharply - down 26.9% during 2022, moving from $6.5B to $4.7B in total assets. Net income was -$1.7B.

What this filing means

Ways to act on Raytheon Retirement Plan's numbers.

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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 951778500.

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.

Data sourced from U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings (EBSA). See our methodology for details.

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.