Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

Pinnacle West Capital Corporation Retirement Plan

Data updated 2026-05-15

$3.3B
Total assets
5,824
Participants
100th
Percentile by assets
$561,778
Avg per participant

Sponsored by Pinnacle West Capital Corporation · Arizona · Management of Enterprises

What the 2023 filing shows

Pinnacle West Capital Corporation Retirement Plan holds $3.3B for 5,824 participants - about $561,778 per participant, among the largest 1% of all filed plans, up 1.7% over the 2023 plan year.

$3.3B
total plan assets (2023 EOY)
5,824
covered participants
100th
percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
$561,778
avg assets per participant
State
Industry
Management of Enterprises

Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

What the Filing Says About Pinnacle West Capital Corporation Retirement Plan

Pinnacle West Capital Corporation Retirement Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, headquartered in Arizona. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $3.3B in total end-of-year assets and covers 5,824 participants across the Management of Enterprises industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 860512431, 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 $3.2B at the beginning of 2023 to $3.3B at year-end - up 1.7%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $3.2B, with reported net income of $43M 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 Pinnacle West Capital Corporation has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $4.5B to $4.7B, a gain of 4.6%, while reported participants moved from 11,684 to 12,129 (+3.8%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2023 at $4.7B; the softest was 2022 at $4.5B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $4.5B in assets across 2 plans covering 11,684 participants; 2023 - $4.7B in assets across 2 plans covering 11,644 participants; 2024 - $4.7B in assets across 2 plans covering 12,129 participants.

By assets, Pinnacle West Capital Corporation Retirement Plan outranks nearly all the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 33x 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 Pinnacle West Capital Corporation 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)$3.2B
Total Assets (End of Year)$3.3B
Net Assets (End of Year)$3.2B
Net Income$43M
Plan TypeDefined Benefit (Pension)
Employer EIN860512431
Plan Effective Date1987-01-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Pinnacle West Capital Corporation)

Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 2 11,684 $4.5B
2023 2 11,644 $4.7B
2024 2 12,129 $4.7B

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the Pinnacle West Capital Corporation Retirement Plan?
As of the 2023 Form 5500 filing, Pinnacle West Capital Corporation Retirement Plan holds $3.3B in total assets with 5,824 participants. It is sponsored by Pinnacle West Capital Corporation.
What type of plan is Pinnacle West Capital Corporation Retirement Plan?
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation Retirement Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) plan. It has been effective since 1987-01-01. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 860512431.
Who sponsors the Pinnacle West Capital Corporation Retirement Plan?
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation Retirement Plan is sponsored by Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, located in Arizona. The sponsor's EIN is 860512431 and the plan operates in the Management of Enterprises industry.
How did Pinnacle West Capital Corporation Retirement Plan perform in 2023?
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation Retirement Plan edged up modestly - up 1.7% during 2023, moving from $3.2B to $3.3B in total assets. Net income was $43M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on Pinnacle West Capital Corporation Retirement Plan's numbers.

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 860512431.

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.

Data sourced from U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings (EBSA). See our methodology for details.

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 2026-05-15.