Wellmark, Inc. Pension Plan

Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

What the Filing Says About Non-Contributory Retirement Program for Certain Employees of Wellmark, Inc.

Non-Contributory Retirement Program for Certain Employees of Wellmark, Inc. is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by Wellmark, Inc., headquartered in Iowa. 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 1,474 participants across the Finance & Insurance industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 352772844, and the plan has been effective since 1955-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets edged up modestly from $287M at the beginning of 2023 to $297M at year-end - up 3.6%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $297M, with reported net income of $10M 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 Wellmark, Inc. has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $287M to $235M, a decline of 18.2%, while reported participants moved from 1,641 to 1,486 (-9.4%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2023 at $297M; the softest was 2024 at $235M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $287M in assets across 1 plan covering 1,641 participants; 2023 - $297M in assets across 1 plan covering 1,474 participants; 2024 - $235M in assets across 1 plan covering 1,486 participants.

By assets, Non-Contributory Retirement Program for Certain Employees of Wellmark, Inc. 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 Non-Contributory Retirement Program for Certain Employees of Wellmark, Inc. 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.