Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
Ball Corporation Pension Plan as It Applies to Certain Salaried Employees of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
Data updated 2026-07-24
- $335M
- Total assets
- 4,799
- Participants
- 96th
- Percentile by assets
- $69,770
- Avg per participant
Sponsored by Ball Corporation · Colorado · Manufacturing
Ball Corporation's Ball Corporation Pension Plan as It Applies to Certain Salaried Employees of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. reported $335M in total assets and 4,799 participants in its 2023 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 96th 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
Ball Corporation Pension Plan as It Applies to Certain Salaried Employees of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. holds $335M for 4,799 participants - about $69,770 per participant, in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets, up 8.4% over the 2023 plan year.
- $335M
- total plan assets (2023 EOY)
- 4,799
- covered participants
- 96th
- percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
- $69,770
- avg assets per participant
Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
What the Filing Says About Ball Corporation Pension Plan as It Applies to Certain Salaried Employees of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
Ball Corporation Pension Plan as It Applies to Certain Salaried Employees of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by Ball Corporation, headquartered in Colorado. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $335M in total end-of-year assets and covers 4,799 participants across the Manufacturing industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 350160610, and the plan has been effective since 1986-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.
Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $309M at the beginning of 2023 to $335M at year-end - up 8.4%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $335M, 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 Ball Corporation has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $3.9B to $3.4B, a decline of 13.8%, while reported participants moved from 21,973 to 14,066 (-36.0%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2023 at $4.3B; the softest was 2024 at $3.4B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $3.9B in assets across 4 plans covering 21,973 participants; 2023 - $4.3B in assets across 4 plans covering 19,981 participants; 2024 - $3.4B in assets across 3 plans covering 14,066 participants.
By assets, Ball Corporation Pension Plan as It Applies to Certain Salaried Employees of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. outranks 96% of the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 3.3x 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 Ball Corporation Pension Plan as It Applies to Certain Salaried Employees of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. 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) | $309M |
|---|---|
| Total Assets (End of Year) | $335M |
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $335M |
| Net Income | $26M |
| Plan Type | Defined Benefit (Pension) |
| Employer EIN | 350160610 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1986-01-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Ball Corporation)
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4 | 21,973 | $3.9B |
| 2023 | 4 | 19,981 | $4.3B |
| 2024 | 3 | 14,066 | $3.4B |
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Ball Corporation Pension Plan as It Applies to Certain Salaried Employees of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. vs. nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in Colorado, assets vs. participants
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What this filing means
Ways to act on Ball Corporation Pension Plan as It Applies to Certain Salaried Employees of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.'s numbers.
- By total assets, Ball Corporation Pension Plan as It Applies to Certain Salaried Employees of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. ranks in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets. See the largest plans
- Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in Colorado. Compare plans
- Ball Corporation's sponsor-wide assets have declined 13.8% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Manufacturing 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 350160610.
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.
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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.