Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
Honeywell International Inc. Pension Plan
Data updated 2026-08-25
- $16.6B
- Total assets Mega-plan scale
- 11,145
- Participants Very large workforce
- 100th
- Percentile by assets National rank
- $1.5M
- Avg per participant High balance/head
Official DOL plan name: Honeywell Retirement Earnings Plan · Sponsored by Honeywell International Inc. · North Carolina · Manufacturing
$16.6B in assets, 11,145 participants
Honeywell International Inc.'s Honeywell Retirement Earnings Plan reported $16.6B in total assets and 11,145 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.
- #18,701 in Manufacturing (18,722 peers)
Coverage in North Carolina
Honeywell Retirement Earnings Plan covers 11,145 participants in North Carolina, 14x the typical North Carolina plan (state average ~819 per filing). Assets: $16.6B.
- #18,701
- in Manufacturing (18,722 peers)
- -2.4%
- assets change YoY
- 167×
- vs typical plan assets (national mean)
The plan reported a net loss of $406M for the year, a single-year figure driven by markets and benefit payments, not a measure of plan health.
Honeywell Retirement Earnings Plan's outsized position by total assets
Honeywell Retirement Earnings Plan vs every filed plan by assets
End-of-year total assets · plan year 2023 · DOL Form 5500
$16,613,752,395 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
Honeywell Retirement Earnings 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. Honeywell Retirement Earnings Plan is a mega filing (11,145 participants), the rightmost band on the breakdown.
What changed between DOL Form 5500 filings
plan year 2022 → plan year 2023
- Honeywell Retirement Earnings Plan reported net income rose from -$3.6B in the plan year 2022 filing to -$406M in the plan year 2023 filing.
- Honeywell Retirement Earnings Plan reported participants fell from 12,452 in the plan year 2022 filing to 11,145 in the plan year 2023 filing.
- Honeywell Retirement Earnings Plan end-of-year assets fell from $17.0B in the plan year 2022 filing to $16.6B in the plan year 2023 filing.
EBSA filing schedule strip
Filing strip 222640650 · Honeywell International Inc. PY 2023 · Defined Benefit (Pension)
Honeywell Retirement Earnings Plan · $16.6B · 11,145 · 100th
- 5500 $16.6B
- 5500 11,145
- 5500 100th
- 5500 Defined Benefit (Pension)
- 5500 near The Boeing Company Employee Retirement Plan
- 5500 ind #18701
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 Manufacturing retirement plans → · Plans in North Carolina →
Honeywell Retirement Earnings Plan in the asset neighbourhood
North Carolina filing particulars
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $17.0B |
|---|---|
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $16.6B |
| Net Income | -$406M |
| Employer EIN | 222640650 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1965-10-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Honeywell International Inc.)
Sponsor-wide plan assets over time
All Honeywell International Inc. plans reported in each filing year
- Latest sponsor-wide plan assets
- $34.3B 4.109339185988252% vs 2022
- 2024 filing year
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | 54,187 | $32.9B |
| 2023 | 6 | 53,725 | $33.4B |
| 2024 | 6 | 51,823 | $34.3B |
Nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) Plans in North Carolina
Peer Defined Benefit (Pension) plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
- Truist Financial Corporation Pension Plan $14.6B · 45,818
- Duke Energy Retirement Cash Balance Plan $4.0B · 14,485
- Duke Energy Legacy Pension Plan $3.4B · 371
- Employees' Retirement Plan of Duke University $2.6B · 21,020
- Time Warner Cable Pension Plan $2.6B · 16,981
Scale composition for Honeywell Retirement Earnings Plan
Honeywell Retirement Earnings Plan reports $16.6B in end-of-year assets across 11,145 participants (0.13% of the $12.3T held by all Form 5500 filers in the national rollup , and 0.012% of 93,925,755 covered participants) - about $1.5M per participant (11x the national average assets-per-participant) . Net income for plan year 2023 was -$406M.
This plan identity (EIN 222640650, plan #201) has 3 Form 5500 filings on file from 2022 to 2024 , with end-of-year assets moving from $17.0B to $16.6B (-2.6%) while covered participants moved from 12,452 to 9,923 . Single-year sparse filers cannot show that trail.
| Plan year | Participants | EOY assets | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 12,452 | $17.0B | Open filing |
| 2023 | 11,145 | $16.6B | This page |
| 2024 · index core | 9,923 | $16.6B | Open filing |
The same sponsor also keeps 4 other index-core plans on PlainRetire:
- Honeywell Retirement Earnings Plan (Defined Benefit (Pension), $16.6B, 9,923 participants)
- Honeywell 401(k) Plan (401(k), $16.3B, 39,468 participants)
- Honeywell Retirement Earnings Plan for Aerospace Employees of Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC (Defined Benefit (Pension), $920M, 846 participants)
- Kansas City Division Hourly Employees' Pension Plan (Defined Benefit (Pension), $382M, 460 participants)
Honeywell Retirement Earnings Plan's out-of-state Defined Benefit (Pension) peers by assets and headcount
Outside North Carolina, the nearest Defined Benefit (Pension) by assets is The Boeing Company Employee Retirement Plan in WA ($16.3B); by covered participants it is New York District Council of Carpenters Pension Pl in NY (11,091 participants). Same-state nearby plans are listed separately above.
Closest by plan assets
Nearest other-state filings by tot_assets_eoy ($16.6B here).
- The Boeing Company Employee Retirement Plan (WA) $16.3B · 32,477
- JPMorgan Chase Retirement Plan (NJ) $16.3B · 90,644
- Consolidated Edison Retirement Plan (NY) $16.2B · 10,779
- 1199seiu Health Care Employees Pension Fund (NY) $16.2B · 107,582
Similar participant headcount
Nearest other-state filings by covered participants (11,145 participants); asset peers above are excluded.
- New York District Council of Carpenters Pension Pl (NY) 11,091 · 54 off
- Deseret Mutual Master Retirement Plan (UT) 11,210 · 65 off
- Southern California United Food and Commercial Workers Unions and Drug Employers Pension Fund (CA) 11,230 · 85 off
- Westrock Company Consolidated Pension Plan (GA) 11,262 · 117 off
DOL Form 5500 plan year 2023. Asset totals can differ widely at the same headcount; neither axis is a quality rating.