Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
Ernst & Young U.S. LLP Pension Plan
Data updated 2026-07-24
- $2.3B
- Total assets
- 45,954
- Participants
- 99th
- Percentile by assets
- $50,604
- Avg per participant
Official DOL plan name: Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan · Sponsored by Ernst & Young U.S. LLP · New Jersey · Professional & Technical Services
$2.3B in assets, 45,954 participants
Ernst & Young U.S. LLP's Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan reported $2.3B in total assets and 45,954 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.
- 99th percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
What the 2023 filing shows
Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan holds $2.3B for 45,954 participants - about $50,604 per participant, among the largest 1% of all filed plans, up 8.3% over the 2023 plan year.
- $2.3B
- total plan assets (2023 EOY)
- 45,954
- covered participants
- 99th
- percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
- $50,604
- avg assets per participant
Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
What the Filing Says About Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan
Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by Ernst & Young U.S. LLP, headquartered in New Jersey. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $2.3B in total end-of-year assets and covers 45,954 participants across the Professional & Technical Services industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 346565596, and the plan has been effective since 1990-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.
Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $2.1B at the beginning of 2023 to $2.3B at year-end - up 8.3%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $2.3B, with reported net income of $285M 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 Ernst & Young U.S. LLP has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $22.7B to $28.5B, a gain of 25.4%, while reported participants moved from 100,421 to 111,083 (+10.6%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $28.5B; the softest was 2022 at $22.7B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $22.7B in assets across 5 plans covering 100,421 participants; 2023 - $25.5B in assets across 5 plans covering 110,953 participants; 2024 - $28.5B in assets across 5 plans covering 111,083 participants.
By assets, Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan outranks 99% of the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 23x 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 Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement 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) | $2.1B |
|---|---|
| Total Assets (End of Year) | $2.3B |
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $2.3B |
| Net Income | $285M |
| Plan Type | Defined Benefit (Pension) |
| Employer EIN | 346565596 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1990-01-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Ernst & Young U.S. LLP)
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | 100,421 | $22.7B |
| 2023 | 5 | 110,953 | $25.5B |
| 2024 | 5 | 111,083 | $28.5B |
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Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan vs. nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in New Jersey, assets vs. participants
- Retirement Plan of Johnson and Johnson $21.2B · 37,749
- JPMorgan Chase Retirement Plan $16.3B · 90,644
- Nokia Retirement Income Plan $13.9B · 7,492
- The Prudential Merged Retirement Plan $12.2B · 16,230
- Verizon Pension Plan for Associates $10.9B · 23,778
Similar-Sized Defined Benefit (Pension) Plans Nationally
Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in other states closest to Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan by total assets, not by location.
- Transamerica Pension Plan (IA) $2.3B · 6,519
- Reynolds and Affiliates Pension Plan (NC) $2.3B · 997
- Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Pension Plan for Salaried Employees (PA) $2.3B · 1,071
- Lockheed Martin Aerospace Hourly Pension Plan (MD) $2.3B · 4,011
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What this filing means
Ways to act on Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan's numbers.
- By total assets, Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan ranks among the largest 1% of all filed plans. See the largest plans
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- Ernst & Young U.S. LLP's sponsor-wide assets have grown 25.4% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Professional & Technical Services plans
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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 346565596.
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.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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 2026-07-24.