Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2022

Building Trades United Pension Trust Fund Milwaukee and Vicinity

Data updated 2026-05-15

$3.0B
Total assets
9,724
Participants
100th
Percentile by assets
$303,577
Avg per participant

Sponsored by Building Trades United Pension Trust Fund · Wisconsin · Construction

What the 2022 filing shows

Building Trades United Pension Trust Fund Milwaukee and Vicinity holds $3.0B for 9,724 participants - about $303,577 per participant, among the largest 1% of all filed plans, down 1.3% over the 2022 plan year.

$3.0B
total plan assets (2022 EOY)
9,724
covered participants
100th
percentile by assets (of 139,258 plans)
$303,577
avg assets per participant

The plan reported a net loss of $32M for the year, a single-year figure driven by markets and benefit payments, not a measure of plan health.

State
Industry
Construction

Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2022

What the Filing Says About Building Trades United Pension Trust Fund Milwaukee and Vicinity

Building Trades United Pension Trust Fund Milwaukee and Vicinity is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by Building Trades United Pension Trust Fund, headquartered in Wisconsin. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2022 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $3.0B in total end-of-year assets and covers 9,724 participants across the Construction industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 516049409, and the plan has been effective since 1959-06-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets edged down modestly from $3.0B at the beginning of 2022 to $3.0B at year-end - down 1.3%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $2.9B, with reported net income of -$32M 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 Building Trades United Pension Trust Fund has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $3.0B to $3.5B, a gain of 19.6%, while reported participants moved from 9,724 to 10,236 (+5.3%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $3.5B; the softest was 2022 at $3.0B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $3.0B in assets across 1 plan covering 9,724 participants; 2023 - $3.3B in assets across 1 plan covering 9,960 participants; 2024 - $3.5B in assets across 1 plan covering 10,236 participants.

By assets, Building Trades United Pension Trust Fund Milwaukee and Vicinity outranks nearly all the 139,258 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2022 plan year, and holds roughly 30x 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 Building Trades United Pension Trust Fund Milwaukee and Vicinity 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)$3.0B
Total Assets (End of Year)$3.0B
Net Assets (End of Year)$2.9B
Net Income-$32M
Plan TypeDefined Benefit (Pension)
Employer EIN516049409
Plan Effective Date1959-06-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Building Trades United Pension Trust Fund)

Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 1 9,724 $3.0B
2023 1 9,960 $3.3B
2024 1 10,236 $3.5B

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the Building Trades United Pension Trust Fund Milwaukee and Vicinity?
As of the 2022 Form 5500 filing, Building Trades United Pension Trust Fund Milwaukee and Vicinity holds $3.0B in total assets with 9,724 participants. It is sponsored by Building Trades United Pension Trust Fund.
What type of plan is Building Trades United Pension Trust Fund Milwaukee and Vicinity?
Building Trades United Pension Trust Fund Milwaukee and Vicinity is a Defined Benefit (Pension) plan. It has been effective since 1959-06-01. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 516049409.
Who sponsors the Building Trades United Pension Trust Fund Milwaukee and Vicinity?
Building Trades United Pension Trust Fund Milwaukee and Vicinity is sponsored by Building Trades United Pension Trust Fund, located in Wisconsin. The sponsor's EIN is 516049409 and the plan operates in the Construction industry.
How did Building Trades United Pension Trust Fund Milwaukee and Vicinity perform in 2022?
Building Trades United Pension Trust Fund Milwaukee and Vicinity edged down modestly - down 1.3% during 2022, moving from $3.0B to $3.0B in total assets. Net income was -$32M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on Building Trades United Pension Trust Fund Milwaukee and Vicinity'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 516049409.

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 2026-05-15.