Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan
Data updated 2026-08-25
- $2.3B
- Total assets Very large vs avg
- 8,002
- Participants Very large workforce
- 99th
- Percentile by assets National rank
- $286,661
- Avg per participant High balance/head
Official DOL plan name: Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan · Sponsored by Southern California Gas Company · California · Utilities
$2.3B in assets, 8,002 participants
Southern California Gas Company's Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan reported $2.3B in total assets and 8,002 participants in its 2023 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 99th 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.
- #679 in Utilities (721 peers)
Coverage in California
Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan covers 8,002 participants in California, 13x the typical California plan (state average ~630 per filing). Assets: $2.3B.
- #679
- in Utilities (721 peers)
- +13.6%
- assets growth YoY
- 23×
- vs typical plan assets (national mean)
Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan's outsized position by total assets
Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan vs every filed plan by assets
End-of-year total assets · plan year 2023 · DOL Form 5500
$2,293,864,874 Top 1% higher than 99% 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
Southern California Gas Company 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. Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan lands in the large band (8,002 participants).
What changed between DOL Form 5500 filings
plan year 2022 → plan year 2023
- Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan reported net income rose from -$611M in the plan year 2022 filing to $276M in the plan year 2023 filing.
- Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan end-of-year assets rose from $2.0B in the plan year 2022 filing to $2.3B in the plan year 2023 filing.
- Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan reported participants rose from 7,743 in the plan year 2022 filing to 8,002 in the plan year 2023 filing.
Published 5500 schedule card
Filing strip 951240705 · Southern California Gas Company PY 2023 · Defined Benefit (Pension)
Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan · $2.3B · 8,002 · 99th
- EBSA $2.3B
- PART 8,002
- TYPE 99th
- NET Defined Benefit (Pension)
- BOOK near Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members
- VS-ST ind #679
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 Utilities retirement plans → · Plans in California →
Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan in the asset neighbourhood
California filing particulars
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $2.0B |
|---|---|
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $2.3B |
| Net Income | $276M |
| Employer EIN | 951240705 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1932-09-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Southern California Gas Company)
Sponsor-wide plan assets over time
All Southern California Gas Company plans reported in each filing year
- Latest sponsor-wide plan assets
- $5.4B 22.993273471748328% vs 2022
- 2024 filing year
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | 16,326 | $4.4B |
| 2023 | 2 | 16,852 | $5.0B |
| 2024 | 2 | 17,516 | $5.4B |
Nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) Plans in California
Peer Defined Benefit (Pension) plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
- Kaiser Permanente Retirement Plan $33.5B · 127,356
- Pacific Gas and Electric Company Retirement Plan $21.4B · 22,914
- Pacific Gas and Electric Company Retirement Plan $18.0B · 25,647
- Retirement Plan for Physicians and Salaried Employees of the Permanente Medical Group, Inc. $10.8B · 19,545
- Disney Salaried Pension Plan D $10.1B · 10,813
Scale composition for Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan
Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan reports $2.3B in end-of-year assets across 8,002 participants (0.019% of the $12.3T held by all Form 5500 filers in the national rollup , and 0.009% of 93,925,755 covered participants) - about $286,661 per participant (2.1x the national average assets-per-participant) . Net income for plan year 2023 was $276M.
This plan identity (EIN 951240705, plan #001) has 3 Form 5500 filings on file from 2022 to 2024 , with end-of-year assets moving from $2.0B to $2.4B (+16.8%) while covered participants moved from 7,743 to 8,518 . Single-year sparse filers cannot show that trail.
| Plan year | Participants | EOY assets | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7,743 | $2.0B | Open filing |
| 2023 | 8,002 | $2.3B | This page |
| 2024 · index core | 8,518 | $2.4B | Open filing |
The same sponsor also keeps 2 other index-core plans on PlainRetire:
- Southern California Gas Company Retirement Savings Plan (401(k), $3.1B, 8,998 participants)
- Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan (Defined Benefit (Pension), $2.4B, 8,518 participants)
Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan's out-of-state Defined Benefit (Pension) peers by assets and headcount
Outside California, the nearest Defined Benefit (Pension) by assets is Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members in VA ($2.3B); by covered participants it is Operating Engineers' Local 324 Pension Fund in MI (7,993 participants). Same-state nearby plans are listed separately above.
Closest by plan assets
Nearest other-state filings by tot_assets_eoy ($2.3B here).
- Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members (VA) $2.3B · 10,052
- The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company 1950 Pension Plan (OH) $2.3B · 2,309
- Medtronic Retirement Plan for Certain Participants and Beneficiaries (MN) $2.3B · 7,871
- New York Hotel Trades Council and Hotel Association of New York City, Inc. Pension Fund (NY) $2.3B · 24,024
Similar participant headcount
Nearest other-state filings by covered participants (8,002 participants); asset peers above are excluded.
- Operating Engineers' Local 324 Pension Fund (MI) 7,993 · 9 off
- Golub Corporation Employees Retirement Plan (NY) 7,981 · 21 off
- Rochester General Health System Employee Retirement Plan (NY) 7,969 · 33 off
- The Estee Lauder Companies Retirement Growth Account Plan (NY) 7,965 · 37 off
DOL Form 5500 plan year 2023. Asset totals can differ widely at the same headcount; neither axis is a quality rating.