Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
IBEW Local Union No. 22/NECA Joint Board of Trustees Pension Plan
Data updated 2026-07-24
- $189M
- Total assets
- 1,442
- Participants
- 94th
- Percentile by assets
- $130,888
- Avg per participant
Official DOL plan name: IBEW Local Union No. 22/NECA Defined Benefit Pension Fund, Plan a · Sponsored by IBEW Local Union No. 22/NECA Joint Board of Trustees · Nebraska · Construction
IBEW Local Union No. 22/NECA Joint Board of Trustees's IBEW Local Union No. 22/NECA Defined Benefit Pension Fund, Plan a reported $189M in total assets and 1,442 participants in its 2023 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 94th 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.
What the 2023 filing shows
IBEW Local Union No. 22/NECA Defined Benefit Pension Fund, Plan a holds $189M for 1,442 participants - about $130,888 per participant, in the top 10% of all filed plans by assets, up 13.1% over the 2023 plan year.
- $189M
- total plan assets (2023 EOY)
- 1,442
- covered participants
- 94th
- percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
- $130,888
- avg assets per participant
Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
What the Filing Says About IBEW Local Union No. 22/NECA Defined Benefit Pension Fund, Plan a
IBEW Local Union No. 22/NECA Defined Benefit Pension Fund, Plan a is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by IBEW Local Union No. 22/NECA Joint Board of Trustees, headquartered in Nebraska. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $189M in total end-of-year assets and covers 1,442 participants across the Construction industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 476061061, and the plan has been effective since 1968-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.
Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $167M at the beginning of 2023 to $189M at year-end - up 13.1%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $189M, with reported net income of $22M 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 IBEW Local Union No. 22/NECA Joint Board of Trustees has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $419M to $563M, a gain of 34.4%, while reported participants moved from 4,395 to 4,643 (+5.6%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $563M; the softest was 2022 at $419M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $419M in assets across 2 plans covering 4,395 participants; 2023 - $494M in assets across 2 plans covering 4,623 participants; 2024 - $563M in assets across 2 plans covering 4,643 participants.
By assets, IBEW Local Union No. 22/NECA Defined Benefit Pension Fund, Plan a outranks 94% of the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 1.9x 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 2023 Form 5500 with a reported end-of-year asset figure (126,618 plans), rank IBEW Local Union No. 22/NECA Defined Benefit Pension Fund, Plan a 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 (2023)
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $167M |
|---|---|
| Total Assets (End of Year) | $189M |
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $189M |
| Net Income | $22M |
| Plan Type | Defined Benefit (Pension) |
| Employer EIN | 476061061 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1968-01-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (IBEW Local Union No. 22/NECA Joint Board of Trustees)
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | 4,395 | $419M |
| 2023 | 2 | 4,623 | $494M |
| 2024 | 2 | 4,643 | $563M |
Nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) Plans in Nebraska
Peer Defined Benefit (Pension) plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
IBEW Local Union No. 22/NECA Defined Benefit Pension Fund, Plan a vs. nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in Nebraska, assets vs. participants
- Pension Plan for Salaried Employees of Union Pacific Corporation & Affiliates $4.4B · 3,724
- Berkshire Hathaway Consolidated Pension Plan $4.2B · 10,563
- Mutual of Omaha Retirement Income Plan $979M · 504
- Retirement Plan for Employees and Representatives of Woodmenlife $772M · 279
- The Restated Ag Processing Inc Retirement Plan $368M · 1,113
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What this filing means
Ways to act on IBEW Local Union No. 22/NECA Defined Benefit Pension Fund, Plan a's numbers.
- By total assets, IBEW Local Union No. 22/NECA Defined Benefit Pension Fund, Plan a ranks in the top 10% of all filed plans by assets. See the largest plans
- Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in Nebraska. Compare plans
- IBEW Local Union No. 22/NECA Joint Board of Trustees's sponsor-wide assets have grown 34.4% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Construction plans
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), Form 5500 public disclosure dataset. Plan year 2023.
Source: DOL EFAST2 filing system (efast.dol.gov) - original filing retrieval by EIN 476061061.
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.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.