Delta 401(k) Retirement Plan

401(k) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

What the Filing Says About Delta 401(k) Retirement Plan

Delta 401(k) Retirement Plan is a 401(k) retirement plan sponsored by Delta Air Lines, Inc., headquartered in Georgia. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $16.2B in total end-of-year assets and covers 83,136 participants across the Transportation & Warehousing industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 580218548, and the plan has been effective since 1971-07-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets grew sharply from $13.2B at the beginning of 2023 to $16.2B at year-end - up 22.2%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $16.2B, with reported net income of $2.9B 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 Delta Air Lines, Inc. has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $40.2B to $42.7B, a gain of 6.2%, while reported participants moved from 112,289 to 136,853 (+21.9%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2023 at $46.0B; the softest was 2022 at $40.2B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $40.2B in assets across 11 plans covering 112,289 participants; 2023 - $46.0B in assets across 12 plans covering 136,516 participants; 2024 - $42.7B in assets across 9 plans covering 136,853 participants.

By assets, Delta 401(k) Retirement Plan outranks nearly all the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 162x 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 Delta 401(k) 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.