401(k) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina 401(k) Plan

Data updated 2026-08-25

$1.3B
Total assets Very large vs avg
11,348
Participants Very large workforce
99th
Percentile by assets National rank
$114,218
Avg per participant Below avg balance/head
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Official DOL plan name: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction Plan · Sponsored by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina · South Carolina · Finance & Insurance

$1.3B in assets, 11,348 participants

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina's Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction Plan reported $1.3B in total assets and 11,348 participants in its 2023 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 99th 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.

  • #8,689 in Finance & Insurance (8,869 peers)

Coverage in South Carolina

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction Plan covers 11,348 participants in South Carolina, 31x the typical South Carolina plan (state average ~369 per filing). Assets: $1.3B.

#8,689
in Finance & Insurance (8,869 peers)
+19.4%
assets growth YoY
13×
vs typical plan assets (national mean)

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction Plan's outsized position by total assets

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction Plan vs every filed plan by assets

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

$1,296,149,408 Top 1% higher than 99% 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

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction 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. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction Plan is a mega filing (11,348 participants), the rightmost band on the breakdown.

What changed between DOL Form 5500 filings

plan year 2022 → plan year 2023

  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction Plan reported net income rose from -$239M in the plan year 2022 filing to $211M in the plan year 2023 filing.
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction Plan end-of-year assets rose from $1.1B in the plan year 2022 filing to $1.3B in the plan year 2023 filing.
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction Plan reported participants fell from 11,881 in the plan year 2022 filing to 11,348 in the plan year 2023 filing.

See the national 2022→2023 release diff →

Form 5500 schedule snapshot

Filing strip 570287419 · Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina PY 2023 · 401(k)

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction Plan · $1.3B · 11,348 · 99th

  • TYPE $1.3B
  • TYPE 11,348
  • TYPE 99th
  • TYPE 401(k)
  • TYPE near Arctic Slope Regional Corporation and Subsidiaries Employees Retirement Plan
  • TYPE ind #8689

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 South Carolina →

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction Plan in the asset neighbourhood

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction PlanBlue Cross Blue Shield of Sc…$1.3BArctic Slope Regional Corporation and Subsidiaries Employees Retirement PlanArctic Slope Regional Corpor…$1.3BThales Incentive 401(k) Savings PlanThales Incentive 401(k) Savi…$1.3BAndersen 401(k) Plan$1.3BDisney Hourly Savings and Investment PlanDisney Hourly Savings and In…$1.3B
End-of-year total assets ($B) among Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction Plan and nearest nationwide 401(k) peers. Source: DOL Form 5500 plan year 2023.

South Carolina filing particulars

Total Assets (Beginning of Year)$1.1B
Net Assets (End of Year)$1.3B
Net Income$211M
Employer EIN570287419
Plan Effective Date1983-01-26
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina)

Sponsor-wide plan assets over time

All Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina plans reported in each filing year

Latest sponsor-wide plan assets
$2.7B 18.504108062214517% vs 2022
2024 filing year
$2.2B$2.4B$2.6B$2.8B 202220232024 $2.25B $2.66B ▲ +18.2%
Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 2 16,530 $2.2B
2023 2 15,692 $2.5B
2024 2 15,965 $2.7B

Nearby 401(k) Plans in South Carolina

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

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction Plan vs. nearby 401(k) plans in South Carolina, assets vs. participants Scatter plot of 6 data points. 6000800010000120001400016000 12345 Total assets ($B) Participants Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction Plan, Total assets ($B): 1.296149408 · Participants: 11348Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction PlanMichelin 401(k) Savings Plan, Total assets ($B): 4.081217676 · Participants: 14439Michelin 401(k) Savings PlanThe Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC Defined Contribution Plan, Total assets ($B): 2.54970984 · Participants: 8661The Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC Defined Contribution PlanSonoco Retirement & Savings Plan, Total assets ($B): 1.560739492 · Participants: 11311Sonoco Retirement & Savings PlanSonoco Retirement & Savings Plan, Total assets ($B): 1.313010355 · Participants: 10614Sonoco Retirement & Savings PlanThe Milliken Retirement Plan, Total assets ($B): 1.261180332 · Participants: 6497The Milliken Retirement Plan
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction Plan vs. nearby 401(k) plans in South Carolina, assets vs. participants
Compare Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction Plan side-by-side with 3 peers →

Scale composition for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction Plan

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction Plan reports $1.3B in end-of-year assets across 11,348 participants (0.011% of the $12.3T held by all Form 5500 filers in the national rollup , and 0.012% of 93,925,755 covered participants) - about $114,218 per participant (83% of the national average assets-per-participant) . Net income for plan year 2023 was $211M.

This plan identity (EIN 570287419, plan #002) has 3 Form 5500 filings on file from 2022 to 2024 , with end-of-year assets moving from $1.1B to $1.5B (+34.6%) while covered participants moved from 11,881 to 11,878 . Single-year sparse filers cannot show that trail.

Plan year Participants EOY assets Filing
2022 11,881 $1.1B Open filing
2023 11,348 $1.3B This page
2024 · index core 11,878 $1.5B Open filing

The same sponsor also keeps 2 other index-core plans on PlainRetire:

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction Plan's out-of-state 401(k) peers by assets and headcount

Outside South Carolina, the nearest 401(k) by assets is Arctic Slope Regional Corporation and Subsidiaries Employees Retirement Plan in AK ($1.3B); by covered participants it is Ralph Lauren Corporation 401(k) Plan in NJ (11,342 participants). Same-state nearby plans are listed separately above.

Closest by plan assets

Nearest other-state filings by tot_assets_eoy ($1.3B here).

Similar participant headcount

Nearest other-state filings by covered participants (11,348 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 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction Plan assets move in 2023? ▼
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction Plan grew sharply - up 19.4% during 2023, from $1.1B to $1.3B. Reported net income was $211M.
How have Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina plan assets changed over time? ▼
Across 3 plan years on file (2022-2024), Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina's sponsor-wide assets grew 18.5%, from $2.2B to $2.7B.
Where does Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction Plan rank by assets among Form 5500 filers? ▼
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction Plan ranks in the 99th 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 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction Plan? ▼
Among 401(k) plans in other states, the closest by assets is Arctic Slope Regional Corporation and Subsidiaries Employees Retirement Plan in AK ($1.3B, 14,281 participants).
Which 401(k) plans cover a similar participant headcount to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Sc Employee Savings and Salary Reduction Plan? ▼
Among 401(k) plans in other states, the closest by covered participants is Ralph Lauren Corporation 401(k) Plan in NJ (11,342 participants, $759M 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 570287419.

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.