Operating Engineers Local 101 Pension Fund

Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

What the Filing Says About Operating Engineers Local 101 Pension Fund

Operating Engineers Local 101 Pension Fund is an Other retirement plan sponsored by Board of Trustees of Operating Engineers Local 101 Pension Fund, headquartered in Missouri. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $930M in total end-of-year assets and covers 3,077 participants across the Construction industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 436059213, and the plan has been effective since 1965-04-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $852M at the beginning of 2023 to $930M at year-end - up 9.1%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $908M, with reported net income of $72M 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 Board of Trustees of Operating Engineers Local 101 Pension Fund has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $852M to $1.0B, a gain of 17.6%, while reported participants moved from 2,881 to 3,644 (+26.5%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $1.0B; the softest was 2022 at $852M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $852M in assets across 1 plan covering 2,881 participants; 2023 - $930M in assets across 1 plan covering 3,077 participants; 2024 - $1.0B in assets across 1 plan covering 3,644 participants.

By assets, Operating Engineers Local 101 Pension Fund outranks 99% of the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 9.3x 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 Operating Engineers Local 101 Pension Fund 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.