Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2022

Trustees of Carpenters Benefit Plans of St. Louis Pension Plan

Data updated 2026-07-24

$3.3B
Total assets
8,767
Participants
100th
Percentile by assets
$371,452
Avg per participant

Official DOL plan name: Carpenters Pension Trust Fund of St. Louis · Sponsored by Trustees of Carpenters Benefit Plans of St. Louis · Missouri · Finance & Insurance

$3.3B in assets, 8,767 participants

Trustees of Carpenters Benefit Plans of St. Louis's Carpenters Pension Trust Fund of St. Louis reported $3.3B in total assets and 8,767 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

Carpenters Pension Trust Fund of St. Louis holds $3.3B for 8,767 participants - about $371,452 per participant, among the largest 1% of all filed plans, up 5.3% over the 2022 plan year.

$3.3B
total plan assets (2022 EOY)
8,767
covered participants
100th
percentile by assets (of 139,258 plans)
$371,452
avg assets per participant

The plan reported a net loss of $26M for the year, a single-year figure driven by markets and benefit payments, not a measure of plan health.

State
Industry
Finance & Insurance

Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2022

What the Filing Says About Carpenters Pension Trust Fund of St. Louis

Carpenters Pension Trust Fund of St. Louis is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by Trustees of Carpenters Benefit Plans of St. Louis, headquartered in Missouri. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2022 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $3.3B in total end-of-year assets and covers 8,767 participants across the Finance & Insurance industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 431622970, and the plan has been effective since 1969-05-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $3.1B at the beginning of 2022 to $3.3B at year-end - up 5.3%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $3.0B, with reported net income of -$26M 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 Trustees of Carpenters Benefit Plans of St. Louis has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $3.3B to $3.4B, a gain of 4.8%, while reported participants moved from 8,767 to 11,832 (+35.0%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $3.4B; the softest was 2022 at $3.3B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $3.3B in assets across 1 plan covering 8,767 participants; 2023 - $3.3B in assets across 1 plan covering 11,420 participants; 2024 - $3.4B in assets across 1 plan covering 11,832 participants.

By assets, Carpenters Pension Trust Fund of St. Louis outranks nearly all the 139,258 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2022 plan year, and holds roughly 33x 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 Carpenters Pension Trust Fund of St. Louis 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)$3.1B
Total Assets (End of Year)$3.3B
Net Assets (End of Year)$3.0B
Net Income-$26M
Plan TypeDefined Benefit (Pension)
Employer EIN431622970
Plan Effective Date1969-05-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Trustees of Carpenters Benefit Plans of St. Louis)

$3.2B$3.25B$3.3B$3.35B$3.4B$3.45B 202220232024 $3.26B $3.41B ▲ +4.6%
Total plan assets by year, all Trustees of Carpenters Benefit Plans of St. Louis 401(k) plans on file
Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 1 8,767 $3.3B
2023 1 11,420 $3.3B
2024 1 11,832 $3.4B

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the Carpenters Pension Trust Fund of St. Louis?
As of the 2022 Form 5500 filing, Carpenters Pension Trust Fund of St. Louis holds $3.3B in total assets with 8,767 participants. It is sponsored by Trustees of Carpenters Benefit Plans of St. Louis.
What type of plan is Carpenters Pension Trust Fund of St. Louis?
Carpenters Pension Trust Fund of St. Louis is a Defined Benefit (Pension) plan. It has been effective since 1969-05-01. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 431622970.
Who sponsors the Carpenters Pension Trust Fund of St. Louis?
Carpenters Pension Trust Fund of St. Louis is sponsored by Trustees of Carpenters Benefit Plans of St. Louis, located in Missouri. The sponsor's EIN is 431622970 and the plan operates in the Finance & Insurance industry.
How did Carpenters Pension Trust Fund of St. Louis perform in 2022?
Carpenters Pension Trust Fund of St. Louis grew at a solid clip - up 5.3% during 2022, moving from $3.1B to $3.3B in total assets. Net income was -$26M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on Carpenters Pension Trust Fund of St. Louis's numbers.

  • By total assets, Carpenters Pension Trust Fund of St. Louis ranks among the largest 1% of all filed plans. See the largest plans
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  • Trustees of Carpenters Benefit Plans of St. Louis's sponsor-wide assets have grown 4.8% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Finance & Insurance plans
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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 431622970.

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.