Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
Board of Directors Producer-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan Pension Plan
Data updated 2026-08-25
- $4.5B
- Total assets Very large vs avg
- 10,450
- Participants Very large workforce
- 100th
- Percentile by assets National rank
- $431,750
- Avg per participant High balance/head
Official DOL plan name: Producer-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan · Sponsored by Board of Directors Producer-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan · California · Finance & Insurance
$4.5B in assets, 10,450 participants
Board of Directors Producer-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan's Producer-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan reported $4.5B in total assets and 10,450 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.
- #8,816 in Finance & Insurance (8,869 peers)
Coverage in California
Producer-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan covers 10,450 participants in California, 17x the typical California plan (state average ~630 per filing). Assets: $4.5B.
- #8,816
- in Finance & Insurance (8,869 peers)
- +4.2%
- assets growth YoY
- 45×
- vs typical plan assets (national mean)
Producer-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan's outsized position by total assets
Producer-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan vs every filed plan by assets
End-of-year total assets · plan year 2023 · DOL Form 5500
$4,511,782,283 Highest reported value at or above every one of 127,068 filed plans
Dashed line + filled bar = this entry, among filed plans.
Source U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings (EBSA) · plan year 2023
Producer-Writers Guild of America Pension 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. Producer-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan is a mega filing (10,450 participants), the rightmost band on the breakdown.
What changed between DOL Form 5500 filings
plan year 2022 → plan year 2023
- Producer-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan reported net income rose from -$409M in the plan year 2022 filing to $203M in the plan year 2023 filing.
- Producer-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan end-of-year assets rose from $4.3B in the plan year 2022 filing to $4.5B in the plan year 2023 filing.
- Producer-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan reported participants rose from 10,212 in the plan year 2022 filing to 10,450 in the plan year 2023 filing.
DOL schedule card
Filing strip 952216351 · Board of Directors Producer-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan PY 2023 · Defined Benefit (Pension)
Producer-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan · $4.5B · 10,450 · 100th
- EOY $4.5B
- 5500 10,450
- ASSETS 100th
- PCT Defined Benefit (Pension)
- EIN near Northwest Airlines Pension Plan for Pilot Employees
- RANK ind #8816
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 Finance & Insurance retirement plans → · Plans in California →
Producer-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan in the asset neighbourhood
California filing particulars
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $4.3B |
|---|---|
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $4.3B |
| Net Income | $203M |
| Employer EIN | 952216351 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1960-03-31 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Board of Directors Producer-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan)
Sponsor-wide plan assets over time
All Board of Directors Producer-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan plans reported in each filing year
- Latest sponsor-wide plan assets
- $4.7B 7.976255946753106% vs 2022
- 2024 filing year
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 10,212 | $4.3B |
| 2023 | 1 | 10,450 | $4.5B |
| 2024 | 1 | 9,218 | $4.7B |
Nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) Plans in California
Peer Defined Benefit (Pension) plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
- Kaiser Permanente Retirement Plan $33.5B · 127,356
- Pacific Gas and Electric Company Retirement Plan $21.4B · 22,914
- Pacific Gas and Electric Company Retirement Plan $18.0B · 25,647
- Retirement Plan for Physicians and Salaried Employees of the Permanente Medical Group, Inc. $10.8B · 19,545
- Disney Salaried Pension Plan D $10.1B · 10,813
Scale composition for Producer-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan
Producer-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan reports $4.5B in end-of-year assets across 10,450 participants (0.037% of the $12.3T held by all Form 5500 filers in the national rollup , and 0.011% of 93,925,755 covered participants) - about $431,750 per participant (3.1x the national average assets-per-participant) . Net income for plan year 2023 was $203M.
This plan identity (EIN 952216351, plan #001) has 3 Form 5500 filings on file from 2022 to 2024 , with end-of-year assets moving from $4.3B to $4.7B (+8.0%) while covered participants moved from 10,212 to 9,218 . Single-year sparse filers cannot show that trail.
| Plan year | Participants | EOY assets | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 10,212 | $4.3B | Open filing |
| 2023 | 10,450 | $4.5B | This page |
| 2024 · index core | 9,218 | $4.7B | Open filing |
The same sponsor also keeps 1 other index-core plan on PlainRetire:
- Producer-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan (Defined Benefit (Pension), $4.7B, 9,218 participants)
Producer-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan's out-of-state Defined Benefit (Pension) peers by assets and headcount
Outside California, the nearest Defined Benefit (Pension) by assets is Northwest Airlines Pension Plan for Pilot Employees in GA ($4.5B); by covered participants it is Rush Retirement Plan in IL (10,468 participants). Same-state nearby plans are listed separately above.
Closest by plan assets
Nearest other-state filings by tot_assets_eoy ($4.5B here).
- Northwest Airlines Pension Plan for Pilot Employees (GA) $4.5B · 1,483
- General Dynamics Retirement Plan (Electric Boat) (VA) $4.5B · 5,069
- National Automatic Sprinkler Industry Pension Fund (MD) $4.5B · 15,047
- American Electric Power System Retirement Plan (OH) $4.5B · 15,595
Similar participant headcount
Nearest other-state filings by covered participants (10,450 participants); asset peers above are excluded.
- Rush Retirement Plan (IL) 10,468 · 18 off
- Western Washington Laborers-Employers Pension Plan (WA) 10,417 · 33 off
- Sysco Corporation Retirement Plan (TX) 10,406 · 44 off
- Automatic Data Processing Inc Pension Retirement Plan (NJ) 10,502 · 52 off
DOL Form 5500 plan year 2023. Asset totals can differ widely at the same headcount; neither axis is a quality rating.