Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
Pfizer Inc Pension Plan
Data updated 2026-08-25
- $11.0B
- Total assets Mega-plan scale
- 9,616
- Participants Very large workforce
- 100th
- Percentile by assets National rank
- $1.1M
- Avg per participant High balance/head
Official DOL plan name: Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan · Sponsored by Pfizer Inc · New York · Manufacturing
$11.0B in assets, 9,616 participants
Pfizer Inc's Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan reported $11.0B in total assets and 9,616 participants in its 2023 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.
- #18,674 in Manufacturing (18,722 peers)
Coverage in New York
Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan covers 9,616 participants in New York, 12x the typical New York plan (state average ~798 per filing). Assets: $11.0B.
- #18,674
- in Manufacturing (18,722 peers)
- +0.8%
- assets growth YoY
- 110×
- vs typical plan assets (national mean)
Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan's outsized position by total assets
Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan vs every filed plan by assets
End-of-year total assets · plan year 2023 · DOL Form 5500
$10,955,262,618 Highest reported value at or above every one of 127,068 filed plans
Dashed line + filled bar = this entry, among filed plans.
Source U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings (EBSA) · plan year 2023
Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan's large-plan peer group by participant headcount
Plan-year 2023 Form 5500 filings with a reported participant count, partitioned by headcount band, not by assets. Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan lands in the large band (9,616 participants).
What changed between DOL Form 5500 filings
plan year 2022 → plan year 2023
- Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan reported net income rose from -$5.5B in the plan year 2022 filing to $19M in the plan year 2023 filing.
- Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan reported participants fell from 10,752 in the plan year 2022 filing to 9,616 in the plan year 2023 filing.
- Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan end-of-year assets rose from $10.9B in the plan year 2022 filing to $11.0B in the plan year 2023 filing.
DOL schedule card
Filing strip 135315170 · Pfizer Inc PY 2023 · Defined Benefit (Pension)
Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan · $11.0B · 9,616 · 100th
- RANK $11.0B
- RANK 9,616
- RANK 100th
- RANK Defined Benefit (Pension)
- RANK near Verizon Pension Plan for Associates
- RANK ind #18674
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 Manufacturing retirement plans → · Plans in New York →
Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan in the asset neighbourhood
New York filing particulars
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $10.9B |
|---|---|
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $10.9B |
| Net Income | $19M |
| Employer EIN | 135315170 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1943-01-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Pfizer Inc)
Sponsor-wide plan assets over time
All Pfizer Inc plans reported in each filing year
- Latest sponsor-wide plan assets
- $32.0B 10.856170522511556% vs 2022
- 2024 filing year
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7 | 39,879 | $28.8B |
| 2023 | 4 | 39,678 | $30.6B |
| 2024 | 4 | 42,215 | $32.0B |
Nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) Plans in New York
Peer Defined Benefit (Pension) plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
- IBM Personal Pension Plan $25.0B · 14,881
- Consolidated Edison Retirement Plan $16.2B · 10,779
- 1199seiu Health Care Employees Pension Fund $16.2B · 107,582
- Pepsico Employees Retirement Plan I $7.6B · 12,289
- New York State Nurses Association Pension Plan $5.5B · 19,697
Scale composition for Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan
Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan reports $11.0B in end-of-year assets across 9,616 participants (0.089% of the $12.3T held by all Form 5500 filers in the national rollup , and 0.010% of 93,925,755 covered participants) - about $1.1M per participant (8.2x the national average assets-per-participant) . Net income for plan year 2023 was $19M.
This plan identity (EIN 135315170, plan #001) has 3 Form 5500 filings on file from 2022 to 2024 , with end-of-year assets moving from $10.9B to $10.0B (-8.3%) while covered participants moved from 10,752 to 8,876 . Single-year sparse filers cannot show that trail.
| Plan year | Participants | EOY assets | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 10,752 | $10.9B | Open filing |
| 2023 | 9,616 | $11.0B | This page |
| 2024 · index core | 8,876 | $10.0B | Open filing |
The same sponsor also keeps 2 other index-core plans on PlainRetire:
- Pfizer Savings Plan (401(k), $22.0B, 33,309 participants)
- Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan (Defined Benefit (Pension), $10.0B, 8,876 participants)
Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan's out-of-state Defined Benefit (Pension) peers by assets and headcount
Outside New York, the nearest Defined Benefit (Pension) by assets is Verizon Pension Plan for Associates in NJ ($10.9B); by covered participants it is Main Line Health, Inc. Retirement Income Plan in PA (9,621 participants). Same-state nearby plans are listed separately above.
Closest by plan assets
Nearest other-state filings by tot_assets_eoy ($11.0B here).
- Verizon Pension Plan for Associates (NJ) $10.9B · 23,778
- Mayo Pension Plan (MN) $11.0B · 69,155
- Retirement Plan for Physicians and Salaried Employees of the Permanente Medical Group, Inc. (CA) $10.8B · 19,545
- Fca US LLC UAW Pension Agreement (MI) $11.2B · 13,635
Similar participant headcount
Nearest other-state filings by covered participants (9,616 participants); asset peers above are excluded.
- Main Line Health, Inc. Retirement Income Plan (PA) 9,621 · 5 off
- Frontier Communications Pension Plan (CT) 9,659 · 43 off
- Premier Health Partners Employees Retirement Plan (OH) 9,563 · 53 off
- U. S. Retirement Plan (NJ) 9,670 · 54 off
DOL Form 5500 plan year 2023. Asset totals can differ widely at the same headcount; neither axis is a quality rating.