Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

Fifth Third Bancorp Pension Plan

Data updated 2026-08-11

$103M
Total assets
813
Participants
91st
Percentile by assets
$126,243
Avg per participant
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Official DOL plan name: The Fifth Third Bancorp Master Retirement Plan · Sponsored by Fifth Third Bancorp · Ohio · Finance & Insurance

$103M in assets, 813 participants

Fifth Third Bancorp's The Fifth Third Bancorp Master Retirement Plan reported $103M in total assets and 813 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 127,072 plans)
  • #7,707 in Finance & Insurance (8,869 peers)

Where The Fifth Third Bancorp Master Retirement Plan sits by assets

The Fifth Third Bancorp Master Retirement Plan sits in the top 10% of all filed plans by assets, $103M for 813 participants (~$126,243/participant), down 6.1% in 2023.

$103M
total plan assets (2023 EOY)
813
covered participants
91st
percentile by assets (of 127,072 plans)
$126,243
avg assets per participant

The plan reported a net loss of $7M for the year, a single-year figure driven by markets and benefit payments, not a measure of plan health.

Where The Fifth Third Bancorp Master Retirement Plan sits by total assets

The Fifth Third Bancorp Master Retirement Plan vs every filed plan by assets

End-of-year total assets · plan year 2023 · DOL Form 5500

$102,635,222 Top 9% higher than 91% of 127,068 filed plans

This plan $0 $2,010,000,000 every filed plan with reported assets, bucketed by value

Dashed line + filled bar = this entry, among filed plans.

Source U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings (EBSA) · plan year 2023

What changed between DOL Form 5500 filings

plan year 2022 → plan year 2023

  • The Fifth Third Bancorp Master Retirement Plan reported net income rose from -$44M in the plan year 2022 filing to -$7M in the plan year 2023 filing.
  • The Fifth Third Bancorp Master Retirement Plan reported participants fell from 897 in the plan year 2022 filing to 813 in the plan year 2023 filing.
  • The Fifth Third Bancorp Master Retirement Plan end-of-year assets fell from $109M in the plan year 2022 filing to $103M in the plan year 2023 filing.

See the national 2022→2023 release diff →

State
Ohio
Industry
Finance & Insurance

The Fifth Third Bancorp Master Retirement Plan vs the 2023 asset distribution

By assets, The Fifth Third Bancorp Master Retirement Plan outranks 91% of the 127,072 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 1.0x the national average plan size of $100M (721 average participants).

Scale-class filing particulars (2023)

Total Assets (Beginning of Year)$109M
Net Assets (End of Year)$103M
Net Income-$7M
Employer EIN310854434
Plan Effective Date1951-11-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Fifth Third Bancorp)

$3B$3.5B$4B$4.5B 202220232024 $3.2B $4.09B ▲ +27.8%
Total plan assets by year, all Fifth Third Bancorp plans on file
Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 2 20,214 $3.2B
2023 2 20,372 $3.7B
2024 2 19,763 $4.1B

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Frequently Asked Questions

How did The Fifth Third Bancorp Master Retirement Plan assets move in 2023? ▼
The Fifth Third Bancorp Master Retirement Plan pulled back noticeably - down 6.1% during 2023, from $109M to $103M. Reported net income was -$7M.
How have Fifth Third Bancorp plan assets changed over time? ▼
Across 3 plan years on file (2022-2024), Fifth Third Bancorp's sponsor-wide assets grew 28.1%, from $3.2B to $4.1B.
Where does The Fifth Third Bancorp Master Retirement Plan rank by assets among Form 5500 filers? ▼
The Fifth Third Bancorp Master Retirement Plan ranks in the 91st percentile by end-of-year assets among 127,072 plans that reported assets for plan year 2023 (in the top 10% of all filed plans by assets).
Which Defined Benefit (Pension) plans are similar in size to The Fifth Third Bancorp Master Retirement Plan? ▼
Among Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in other states, the closest by assets is The San Diego Union-Tribune LLC Retirement Plan in CA ($103M, 82 participants).

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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 310854434.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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