Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2022
Fedex Corporation Pension Plan
Data updated 2026-08-25
- $25.6B
- Total assets Mega-plan scale
- 119,742
- Participants Very large workforce
- 100th
- Percentile by assets National rank
- $213,856
- Avg per participant Above avg balance/head
Official DOL plan name: Fedex Corporation Employees' Pension Plan · Sponsored by Fedex Corporation · Tennessee · Transportation & Warehousing
$25.6B in assets, 119,742 participants
Fedex Corporation's Fedex Corporation Employees' Pension Plan reported $25.6B in total assets and 119,742 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.
- #3,874 in Transportation & Warehousing (3,876 peers)
Coverage in Tennessee
Fedex Corporation Employees' Pension Plan covers 119,742 participants in Tennessee, 106x the typical Tennessee plan (state average ~1,126 per filing). Assets: $25.6B.
- #3,874
- in Transportation & Warehousing (3,876 peers)
- +0.4%
- assets growth YoY
- 257×
- vs typical plan assets (national mean)
The plan reported a net loss of $1.0B for the year, a single-year figure driven by markets and benefit payments, not a measure of plan health.
Fedex Corporation Employees' Pension Plan's outsized position by total assets
Fedex Corporation Employees' Pension Plan vs every filed plan by assets
End-of-year total assets · plan year 2022 · DOL Form 5500
$25,607,567,505 Highest reported value at or above every one 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
Fedex Corporation Employees' Pension Plan's mega-plan peer group by participant headcount
Plan-year 2022 Form 5500 filings with a reported participant count, partitioned by headcount band, not by assets. Fedex Corporation Employees' Pension Plan is a mega filing (119,742 participants), the rightmost band on the breakdown.
Plan-year Form 5500 strip
Filing strip 621721435 · Fedex Corporation PY 2022 · Defined Benefit (Pension)
Fedex Corporation Employees' Pension Plan · $25.6B · 119,742 · 100th
- VS-ST $25.6B
- VS-ST 119,742
- VS-ST 100th
- VS-ST Defined Benefit (Pension)
- VS-ST near IBM Personal Pension Plan
- VS-ST ind #3874
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 Transportation & Warehousing retirement plans → · Plans in Tennessee →
Fedex Corporation Employees' Pension Plan in the asset neighbourhood
Tennessee filing particulars
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $25.5B |
|---|---|
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $25.6B |
| Net Income | -$1.0B |
| Employer EIN | 621721435 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1978-06-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Fedex Corporation)
Sponsor-wide plan assets over time
All Fedex Corporation plans reported in each filing year
- Latest sponsor-wide plan assets
- $55.8B 15.191575887166955% vs 2022
- 2024 filing year
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4 | 340,732 | $48.4B |
| 2023 | 4 | 365,516 | $53.1B |
| 2024 | 4 | 334,093 | $55.8B |
Nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) Plans in Tennessee
Peer Defined Benefit (Pension) plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
- Retirement Plan of International Paper Company $8.8B · 20,914
- Pension Plan for Employees at Ornl $2.3B · 5,460
- Retirement Program Plan for Employees of Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC at the U.S. Department of Energy at Oak Ridge, Tennessee $2.0B · 2,920
- Nissan Employee Retirement Plan $1.5B · 4,575
- Pace Industry Union-Management Pension Fund $1.3B · 3,344
Scale composition for Fedex Corporation Employees' Pension Plan
Fedex Corporation Employees' Pension Plan reports $25.6B in end-of-year assets across 119,742 participants (0.21% of the $12.3T held by all Form 5500 filers in the national rollup , and 0.13% of 93,925,755 covered participants) - about $213,856 per participant (1.5x the national average assets-per-participant) . Net income for plan year 2022 was -$1.0B.
This plan identity (EIN 621721435, plan #002) has 3 Form 5500 filings on file from 2022 to 2024 , with end-of-year assets moving from $25.6B to $26.9B (+4.9%) while covered participants moved from 119,742 to 125,941 . Single-year sparse filers cannot show that trail.
| Plan year | Participants | EOY assets | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 119,742 | $25.6B | This page |
| 2023 | 139,031 | $26.6B | Open filing |
| 2024 · index core | 125,941 | $26.9B | Open filing |
The same sponsor also keeps 3 other index-core plans on PlainRetire:
- Fedex Corporation Employees' Pension Plan (Defined Benefit (Pension), $26.9B, 125,941 participants)
- Fedex Corporation Retirement Savings Plan (401(k), $25.4B, 113,079 participants)
- Fedex Corporation Retirement Savings Plan II (401(k), $3.5B, 94,890 participants)
Fedex Corporation Employees' Pension Plan's out-of-state Defined Benefit (Pension) peers by assets and headcount
Outside Tennessee, the nearest Defined Benefit (Pension) by assets is IBM Personal Pension Plan in NY ($25.5B); by covered participants it is AT&T Pension Benefit Plan in TX (119,463 participants). Same-state nearby plans are listed separately above.
Closest by plan assets
Nearest other-state filings by tot_assets_eoy ($25.6B here).
- IBM Personal Pension Plan (NY) $25.5B · 16,431
- The Pension Value Plan for Employees of the Boeing Company (WA) $25.2B · 34,042
- Central Pension Fund of the Iuoe & Participating Employers (DC) $23.5B · 97,285
- UPS Retirement Plan (GA) $22.0B · 52,821
Similar participant headcount
Nearest other-state filings by covered participants (119,742 participants); asset peers above are excluded.
- AT&T Pension Benefit Plan (TX) 119,463 · 279 off
- Sound Retirement Trust (WA) 105,428 · 14,314 off
- JPMorgan Chase Retirement Plan (NJ) 102,340 · 17,402 off
- Iam National Pension Fund (DC) 94,512 · 25,230 off
DOL Form 5500 plan year 2022. Asset totals can differ widely at the same headcount; neither axis is a quality rating.