Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

Afscme Employees Pension Plan

Data updated 2026-05-15

$1.6B
Total assets
1,668
Participants
99th
Percentile by assets
$970,169
Avg per participant

Sponsored by American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees · District of Columbia · Other Services

What the 2023 filing shows

Afscme Employees Pension Plan holds $1.6B for 1,668 participants - about $970,169 per participant, among the largest 1% of all filed plans, up 11.4% over the 2023 plan year.

$1.6B
total plan assets (2023 EOY)
1,668
covered participants
99th
percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
$970,169
avg assets per participant
Industry
Other Services

Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

What the Filing Says About Afscme Employees Pension Plan

Afscme Employees Pension Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, headquartered in District of Columbia. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $1.6B in total end-of-year assets and covers 1,668 participants across the Other Services industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 530237789, and the plan has been effective since 1966-04-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $1.5B at the beginning of 2023 to $1.6B at year-end - up 11.4%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $1.6B, with reported net income of $175M 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 American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $1.6B to $1.8B, a gain of 11.4%, while reported participants moved from 1,645 to 2,972 (+80.7%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $1.8B; the softest was 2022 at $1.6B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $1.6B in assets across 2 plans covering 1,645 participants; 2023 - $1.8B in assets across 2 plans covering 1,668 participants; 2024 - $1.8B in assets across 2 plans covering 2,972 participants.

By assets, Afscme Employees Pension Plan outranks 99% of the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 16x 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 Afscme Employees Pension 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.

Financial Summary (2023)

Total Assets (Beginning of Year)$1.5B
Total Assets (End of Year)$1.6B
Net Assets (End of Year)$1.6B
Net Income$175M
Plan TypeDefined Benefit (Pension)
Employer EIN530237789
Plan Effective Date1966-04-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees)

Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 2 1,645 $1.6B
2023 2 1,668 $1.8B
2024 2 2,972 $1.8B

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the Afscme Employees Pension Plan?
As of the 2023 Form 5500 filing, Afscme Employees Pension Plan holds $1.6B in total assets with 1,668 participants. It is sponsored by American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.
What type of plan is Afscme Employees Pension Plan?
Afscme Employees Pension Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) plan. It has been effective since 1966-04-01. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 530237789.
Who sponsors the Afscme Employees Pension Plan?
Afscme Employees Pension Plan is sponsored by American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, located in District of Columbia. The sponsor's EIN is 530237789 and the plan operates in the Other Services industry.
How did Afscme Employees Pension Plan perform in 2023?
Afscme Employees Pension Plan grew at a solid clip - up 11.4% during 2023, moving from $1.5B to $1.6B in total assets. Net income was $175M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on Afscme Employees Pension Plan's numbers.

  • By total assets, Afscme Employees Pension Plan ranks among the largest 1% of all filed plans. See the largest plans
  • Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in District of Columbia. Compare plans
  • American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees's sponsor-wide assets have grown 11.4% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Other Services plans
  • A Defined Benefit (Pension) plan works differently from other retirement plan types, understand the structural differences before comparing. Compare plan types

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 530237789.

Reference: IRS Publication 560, Retirement Plans for Small Business, contribution-limit rules.

Reference: IRS Publication 590-B, Distributions from IRAs, RMD rules under SECURE Act 2.0.

Data sourced from U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings (EBSA). See our methodology for details.

Every figure on PlainRetire is rendered directly from the Department of Labor's Form 5500 annual return filings, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-05-15.