401(k) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

Sony Corporation of America 401(k) Plan

Data updated 2026-08-25

$5.5B
Total assets Very large vs avg
13,118
Participants Very large workforce
100th
Percentile by assets National rank
$417,451
Avg per participant High balance/head
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Official DOL plan name: Sony USA 401(k) Plan · Sponsored by Sony Corporation of America · New York · Management of Enterprises

$5.5B in assets, 13,118 participants

Sony Corporation of America's Sony USA 401(k) Plan reported $5.5B in total assets and 13,118 participants in its 2023 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 100th 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.

  • #1,126 in Management of Enterprises (1,137 peers)

Coverage in New York

Sony USA 401(k) Plan covers 13,118 participants in New York, 16x the typical New York plan (state average ~798 per filing). Assets: $5.5B.

#1,126
in Management of Enterprises (1,137 peers)
+21.3%
assets growth YoY
55×
vs typical plan assets (national mean)

Sony USA 401(k) Plan's outsized position by total assets

Sony USA 401(k) Plan vs every filed plan by assets

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

$5,476,120,488 Highest reported value at or above every one 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

Sony USA 401(k) Plan'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. Sony USA 401(k) Plan is a mega filing (13,118 participants), the rightmost band on the breakdown.

What changed between DOL Form 5500 filings

plan year 2022 → plan year 2023

  • Sony USA 401(k) Plan reported net income rose from -$895M in the plan year 2022 filing to $963M in the plan year 2023 filing.
  • Sony USA 401(k) Plan end-of-year assets rose from $4.5B in the plan year 2022 filing to $5.5B in the plan year 2023 filing.
  • Sony USA 401(k) Plan reported participants rose from 12,275 in the plan year 2022 filing to 13,118 in the plan year 2023 filing.

See the national 2022→2023 release diff →

EBSA filing schedule strip

Filing strip 131914734 · Sony Corporation of America PY 2023 · 401(k)

Sony USA 401(k) Plan · $5.5B · 13,118 · 100th

  • BOY $5.5B
  • SCH 13,118
  • EBSA 100th
  • PART 401(k)
  • TYPE near Takeda Pharmaceutical U.S.a., Inc. Savings and Retirement Plan
  • NET ind #1126

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 Management of Enterprises retirement plans → · Plans in New York →

Sony USA 401(k) Plan in the asset neighbourhood

Honda 401(k) Savings Plan$5.5BSony USA 401(k) Plan$5.5BDeseret 401(k) Plan$5.5BTakeda Pharmaceutical U.S.a., Inc. Savings and Retirement PlanTakeda Pharmaceutical U.S.a.…$5.5BHuntington Ingalls Industries Savings PlanHuntington Ingalls Industrie…$5.5B
End-of-year total assets ($B) among Sony USA 401(k) Plan and nearest nationwide 401(k) peers. Source: DOL Form 5500 plan year 2023.

New York filing particulars

Total Assets (Beginning of Year)$4.5B
Net Assets (End of Year)$5.5B
Net Income$963M
Employer EIN131914734
Plan Effective Date1984-01-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Sony Corporation of America)

Sponsor-wide plan assets over time

All Sony Corporation of America plans reported in each filing year

Latest sponsor-wide plan assets
$6.2B 37.63401533673521% vs 2022
2024 filing year
$4B$5B$6B$7B 202220232024 $4.51B $6.21B ▲ +37.7%
Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 1 12,275 $4.5B
2023 1 13,118 $5.5B
2024 1 13,894 $6.2B

Nearby 401(k) Plans in New York

Peer 401(k) plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.

Sony USA 401(k) Plan vs. nearby 401(k) plans in New York, assets vs. participants Scatter plot of 6 data points. 050000100000150000 020406080 Total assets ($B) Participants Sony USA 401(k) Plan, Total assets ($B): 5.476120488 · Participants: 13118Sony USA 401(k) PlanIBM 401 (K) Plus Plan, Total assets ($B): 57.428456306 · Participants: 54912IBM 401 (K) Plus PlanPfizer Savings Plan, Total assets ($B): 19.56134085 · Participants: 30033Pfizer Savings PlanMorgan Stanley 401(k) Plan, Total assets ($B): 19.235068266 · Participants: 55363Morgan Stanley 401(k) PlanThe Pepsico Savings Plan, Total assets ($B): 13.651296 · Participants: 133597The Pepsico Savings PlanThe Goldman Sachs 401(k) Plan, Total assets ($B): 11.428659742 · Participants: 24866The Goldman Sachs 401(k) Plan
Sony USA 401(k) Plan vs. nearby 401(k) plans in New York, assets vs. participants
Compare Sony USA 401(k) Plan side-by-side with 3 peers →

Scale composition for Sony USA 401(k) Plan

Sony USA 401(k) Plan reports $5.5B in end-of-year assets across 13,118 participants (0.044% of the $12.3T held by all Form 5500 filers in the national rollup , and 0.014% of 93,925,755 covered participants) - about $417,451 per participant (3.0x the national average assets-per-participant) . Net income for plan year 2023 was $963M.

This plan identity (EIN 131914734, plan #002) has 3 Form 5500 filings on file from 2022 to 2024 , with end-of-year assets moving from $4.5B to $6.2B (+37.6%) while covered participants moved from 12,275 to 13,894 . Single-year sparse filers cannot show that trail.

Plan year Participants EOY assets Filing
2022 12,275 $4.5B Open filing
2023 13,118 $5.5B This page
2024 · index core 13,894 $6.2B Open filing

The same sponsor also keeps 1 other index-core plan on PlainRetire:

Sony USA 401(k) Plan's out-of-state 401(k) peers by assets and headcount

Outside New York, the nearest 401(k) by assets is Takeda Pharmaceutical U.S.a., Inc. Savings and Retirement Plan in MA ($5.5B); by covered participants it is Cleveland-Cliffs Steel LLC Hourly 401(k) Plan in IL (13,113 participants). Same-state nearby plans are listed separately above.

Closest by plan assets

Nearest other-state filings by tot_assets_eoy ($5.5B here).

Similar participant headcount

Nearest other-state filings by covered participants (13,118 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 Sony USA 401(k) Plan assets move in 2023? ▼
Sony USA 401(k) Plan grew sharply - up 21.3% during 2023, from $4.5B to $5.5B. Reported net income was $963M.
How have Sony Corporation of America plan assets changed over time? ▼
Across 3 plan years on file (2022-2024), Sony Corporation of America's sponsor-wide assets grew 37.6%, from $4.5B to $6.2B.
Where does Sony USA 401(k) Plan rank by assets among Form 5500 filers? ▼
Sony USA 401(k) Plan ranks in the 100th 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 401(k) plans are similar in size to Sony USA 401(k) Plan? ▼
Among 401(k) plans in other states, the closest by assets is Takeda Pharmaceutical U.S.a., Inc. Savings and Retirement Plan in MA ($5.5B, 21,791 participants).
Which 401(k) plans cover a similar participant headcount to Sony USA 401(k) Plan? ▼
Among 401(k) plans in other states, the closest by covered participants is Cleveland-Cliffs Steel LLC Hourly 401(k) Plan in IL (13,113 participants, $1.5B 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 131914734.

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.