Jack in the Box Inc. Pension Plan

Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

What the Filing Says About Jack in the Box Inc. Retirement Plan

Jack in the Box Inc. Retirement Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by Jack in the Box Inc., headquartered in California. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $297M in total end-of-year assets and covers 724 participants across the Food Services & Accommodation industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 952698708, and the plan has been effective since 1985-10-21. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets edged down modestly from $312M at the beginning of 2023 to $297M at year-end - down 4.7%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $297M, with reported net income of -$14M 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 Jack in the Box Inc. has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $411M to $424M, a gain of 3.2%, while reported participants moved from 4,786 to 4,931 (+3.0%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $424M; the softest was 2022 at $411M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $411M in assets across 2 plans covering 4,786 participants; 2023 - $414M in assets across 2 plans covering 4,073 participants; 2024 - $424M in assets across 2 plans covering 4,931 participants.

By assets, Jack in the Box Inc. Retirement Plan outranks 96% of the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 3.0x 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 Jack in the Box Inc. 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.