Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
Illinois Tool Works Inc. Pension Plan
Data updated 2026-07-24
- $98M
- Total assets
- 113
- Participants
- 91st
- Percentile by assets
- $866,879
- Avg per participant
Official DOL plan name: Itw Bargaining Retirement Plan · Sponsored by Illinois Tool Works Inc. · Illinois · Management of Enterprises
$98M in assets, 113 participants
Illinois Tool Works Inc.'s Itw Bargaining Retirement Plan reported $98M in total assets and 113 participants in its 2023 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 91st 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.
- 91st percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
What the 2023 filing shows
Itw Bargaining Retirement Plan holds $98M for 113 participants - about $866,879 per participant, in the top 10% of all filed plans by assets, up 3.4% over the 2023 plan year.
- $98M
- total plan assets (2023 EOY)
- 113
- covered participants
- 91st
- percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
- $866,879
- avg assets per participant
Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
What the Filing Says About Itw Bargaining Retirement Plan
Itw Bargaining Retirement Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by Illinois Tool Works Inc., headquartered in Illinois. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $98M in total end-of-year assets and covers 113 participants across the Management of Enterprises industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 361258310, and the plan has been effective since 1987-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.
Year over year, total assets edged up modestly from $95M at the beginning of 2023 to $98M at year-end - up 3.4%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $98M, with reported net income of $3M 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 Illinois Tool Works Inc. has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $5.0B to $5.5B, a gain of 9.1%, while reported participants moved from 20,148 to 19,189 (-4.8%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $5.5B; the softest was 2022 at $5.0B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $5.0B in assets across 5 plans covering 20,148 participants; 2023 - $5.4B in assets across 5 plans covering 20,227 participants; 2024 - $5.5B in assets across 5 plans covering 19,189 participants.
By assets, Itw Bargaining Retirement Plan outranks 91% of the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 1.0x 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 Itw Bargaining Retirement Plan 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) | $95M |
|---|---|
| Total Assets (End of Year) | $98M |
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $98M |
| Net Income | $3M |
| Plan Type | Defined Benefit (Pension) |
| Employer EIN | 361258310 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1987-01-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Illinois Tool Works Inc.)
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | 20,148 | $5.0B |
| 2023 | 5 | 20,227 | $5.4B |
| 2024 | 5 | 19,189 | $5.5B |
Nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) Plans in Illinois
Peer Defined Benefit (Pension) plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
Itw Bargaining Retirement Plan vs. nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in Illinois, assets vs. participants
- Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Plan $49.7B · 48,538
- State Farm Insurance Companies Retirement Plan for United States Employees $35.2B · 45,001
- United Food & Commercial Workers Intl Union - Industry Pension Fund $8.0B · 20,680
- John Deere Pension Plan for Salaried Employees $8.0B · 16,346
- Abbott Laboratories Annuity Retirement Plan $7.8B · 17,382
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Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in other states closest to Itw Bargaining Retirement Plan by total assets, not by location.
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What this filing means
Ways to act on Itw Bargaining Retirement Plan's numbers.
- By total assets, Itw Bargaining Retirement Plan 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 Illinois. Compare plans
- Illinois Tool Works Inc.'s sponsor-wide assets have grown 9.1% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Management of Enterprises plans
- A Defined Benefit (Pension) plan works differently from other retirement plan types, understand the structural differences before comparing. Compare plan types
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 361258310.
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.