Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

National Telecommunications Cooperative Association Pension Plan

Data updated 2026-08-25

$2.3B
Total assets Very large vs avg
10,052
Participants Very large workforce
99th
Percentile by assets National rank
$227,849
Avg per participant Above avg balance/head
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Official DOL plan name: Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members · Sponsored by National Telecommunications Cooperative Association · Virginia · Information & Media

$2.3B in assets, 10,052 participants

National Telecommunications Cooperative Association's Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members reported $2.3B in total assets and 10,052 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.

  • #2,777 in Information & Media (2,818 peers)

Coverage in Virginia

Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members covers 10,052 participants in Virginia, 13x the typical Virginia plan (state average ~782 per filing). Assets: $2.3B.

#2,777
in Information & Media (2,818 peers)
+3.4%
assets growth YoY
23×
vs typical plan assets (national mean)

Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members's outsized position by total assets

Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members vs every filed plan by assets

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

$2,290,341,070 Top 1% higher than 99% of 127,068 filed plans

This plan $0 $2,050,000,000 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

Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members's mega-plan peer group by participant headcount

Plan-year 2023 Form 5500 filings with a reported participant count, partitioned by headcount band, not by assets. Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members is a mega filing (10,052 participants), the rightmost band on the breakdown.

What changed between DOL Form 5500 filings

plan year 2022 → plan year 2023

  • Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members reported net income rose from -$602M in the plan year 2022 filing to $75M in the plan year 2023 filing.
  • Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members reported participants fell from 10,724 in the plan year 2022 filing to 10,052 in the plan year 2023 filing.
  • Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members end-of-year assets rose from $2.2B in the plan year 2022 filing to $2.3B in the plan year 2023 filing.

See the national 2022→2023 release diff →

Published 5500 schedule card

Filing strip 520741336 · National Telecommunications Cooperative Association PY 2023 · Defined Benefit (Pension)

Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members · $2.3B · 10,052 · 99th

  • RANK $2.3B
  • PHOTO 10,052
  • IND 99th
  • EOY Defined Benefit (Pension)
  • 5500 near Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan
  • ASSETS ind #2777

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 Information & Media retirement plans → · Plans in Virginia →

Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members in the asset neighbourhood

Medtronic Retirement Plan for Certain Participants and BeneficiariesMedtronic Retirement Plan fo…$2.3BThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company 1950 Pension PlanThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber C…$2.3BRetirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its MembersRetirement&security Program …$2.3BSouthern California Gas Company Pension PlanSouthern California Gas Comp…$2.3BThe Keyspan Retirement Plan$2.3B
End-of-year total assets ($B) among Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members and nearest nationwide Defined Benefit (Pension) peers. Source: DOL Form 5500 plan year 2023.

Virginia filing particulars

Total Assets (Beginning of Year)$2.2B
Net Assets (End of Year)$2.3B
Net Income$75M
Employer EIN520741336
Plan Effective Date1959-01-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (National Telecommunications Cooperative Association)

Sponsor-wide plan assets over time

All National Telecommunications Cooperative Association plans reported in each filing year

Latest sponsor-wide plan assets
$5.9B 21.4517316107359% vs 2022
2024 filing year
$4.5B$5B$5.5B$6B 202220232024 $4.84B $5.88B ▲ +21.5%
Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 2 32,763 $4.8B
2023 2 32,322 $5.3B
2024 2 33,122 $5.9B

Nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) Plans in Virginia

Peer Defined Benefit (Pension) plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.

Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members vs. nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in Virginia, assets vs. participants Scatter plot of 6 data points. 020000400006000080000 05101520 Total assets ($B) Participants Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members, Total assets ($B): 2.29034107 · Participants: 10052Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its MembersNorthrop Grumman Pension Plan, Total assets ($B): 19.134846358 · Participants: 13674Northrop Grumman Pension PlanRetirement Security Plan, Total assets ($B): 10.184642779 · Participants: 54171Retirement Security PlanNg Space&mission Systems Corp Salaried Pension Pla, Total assets ($B): 8.450021632 · Participants: 7117Ng Space&mission Systems Corp Salaried Pension PlaSheet Metal Workers' National Pension Fund, Total assets ($B): 8.306466489 · Participants: 61272Sheet Metal Workers' National Pension FundDominion Energy Pension Plan, Total assets ($B): 7.570958933 · Participants: 12263Dominion Energy Pension Plan
Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members vs. nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in Virginia, assets vs. participants
Compare Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members side-by-side with 3 peers →

Scale composition for Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members

Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members reports $2.3B in end-of-year assets across 10,052 participants (0.019% of the $12.3T held by all Form 5500 filers in the national rollup , and 0.011% of 93,925,755 covered participants) - about $227,849 per participant (1.6x the national average assets-per-participant) . Net income for plan year 2023 was $75M.

This plan identity (EIN 520741336, plan #333) has 3 Form 5500 filings on file from 2022 to 2024 , with end-of-year assets moving from $2.2B to $2.5B (+13.7%) while covered participants moved from 10,724 to 9,988 . Single-year sparse filers cannot show that trail.

Plan year Participants EOY assets Filing
2022 10,724 $2.2B Open filing
2023 10,052 $2.3B This page
2024 · index core 9,988 $2.5B Open filing

The same sponsor also keeps 2 other index-core plans on PlainRetire:

Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members's out-of-state Defined Benefit (Pension) peers by assets and headcount

Outside Virginia, the nearest Defined Benefit (Pension) by assets is Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan in CA ($2.3B); by covered participants it is New York State Teamsters Conference Pension & Retirement Fund in NY (10,056 participants). Same-state nearby plans are listed separately above.

Similar participant headcount

Nearest other-state filings by covered participants (10,052 participants); asset peers above are excluded.

DOL Form 5500 plan year 2023. Asset totals can differ widely at the same headcount; neither axis is a quality rating.

Frequently Asked Questions

How did Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members assets move in 2023? ▼
Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members edged up modestly - up 3.4% during 2023, from $2.2B to $2.3B. Reported net income was $75M.
How have National Telecommunications Cooperative Association plan assets changed over time? ▼
Across 3 plan years on file (2022-2024), National Telecommunications Cooperative Association's sponsor-wide assets grew 21.5%, from $4.8B to $5.9B.
Where does Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members rank by assets among Form 5500 filers? ▼
Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members ranks in the 99th percentile by end-of-year assets among 127,072 plans that reported assets for plan year 2023 (among the largest 1% of all filed plans).
Which Defined Benefit (Pension) plans are similar in size to Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members? ▼
Among Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in other states, the closest by assets is Southern California Gas Company Pension Plan in CA ($2.3B, 8,002 participants).
Which Defined Benefit (Pension) plans cover a similar participant headcount to Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members? ▼
Among Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in other states, the closest by covered participants is New York State Teamsters Conference Pension & Retirement Fund in NY (10,056 participants, $2.8B in assets).

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 520741336.

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.