Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
Joint Gov. Comm. Plumbers and Pipefitters Local Union No. 525 Pension Plan
Data updated 2026-07-24
- $413M
- Total assets
- 1,518
- Participants
- 97th
- Percentile by assets
- $272,228
- Avg per participant
Official DOL plan name: Pension and Retirement Plan of Plumbers and Pipefitters Union Local 525 · Sponsored by Joint Gov. Comm. Plumbers and Pipefitters Local Union No. 525 · Nevada · Construction
$413M in assets, 1,518 participants
Joint Gov. Comm. Plumbers and Pipefitters Local Union No. 525's Pension and Retirement Plan of Plumbers and Pipefitters Union Local 525 reported $413M in total assets and 1,518 participants in its 2023 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 97th 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.
- 97th percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
What the 2023 filing shows
Pension and Retirement Plan of Plumbers and Pipefitters Union Local 525 holds $413M for 1,518 participants - about $272,228 per participant, in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets, up 8.8% over the 2023 plan year.
- $413M
- total plan assets (2023 EOY)
- 1,518
- covered participants
- 97th
- percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
- $272,228
- avg assets per participant
Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
What the Filing Says About Pension and Retirement Plan of Plumbers and Pipefitters Union Local 525
Pension and Retirement Plan of Plumbers and Pipefitters Union Local 525 is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by Joint Gov. Comm. Plumbers and Pipefitters Local Union No. 525, headquartered in Nevada. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $413M in total end-of-year assets and covers 1,518 participants across the Construction industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 886003864, and the plan has been effective since 1962-07-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.
Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $380M at the beginning of 2023 to $413M at year-end - up 8.8%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $413M, with reported net income of $34M 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 1 prior plan-year filing from the same sponsor shown below.
Across the 2 plan years Joint Gov. Comm. Plumbers and Pipefitters Local Union No. 525 has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2023), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $380M to $413M, a gain of 8.8%, while reported participants moved from 1,127 to 1,518 (+34.7%). Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $380M in assets across 1 plan covering 1,127 participants; 2023 - $413M in assets across 1 plan covering 1,518 participants.
By assets, Pension and Retirement Plan of Plumbers and Pipefitters Union Local 525 outranks 97% of the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 4.1x 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 Pension and Retirement Plan of Plumbers and Pipefitters Union Local 525 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) | $380M |
|---|---|
| Total Assets (End of Year) | $413M |
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $413M |
| Net Income | $34M |
| Plan Type | Defined Benefit (Pension) |
| Employer EIN | 886003864 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1962-07-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Joint Gov. Comm. Plumbers and Pipefitters Local Union No. 525)
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 1,127 | $380M |
| 2023 | 1 | 1,518 | $413M |
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Pension and Retirement Plan of Plumbers and Pipefitters Union Local 525 vs. nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in Nevada, assets vs. participants
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Similar-Sized Defined Benefit (Pension) Plans Nationally
Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in other states closest to Pension and Retirement Plan of Plumbers and Pipefitters Union Local 525 by total assets, not by location.
- The Hearst Corporation Broadcast Retirement Plan (NC) $414M · 559
- Windstream Pension Plan (AR) $415M · 1,704
- Resilient Floor Covering Pension Fund (CA) $412M · 1,323
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Frequently Asked Questions
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What this filing means
Ways to act on Pension and Retirement Plan of Plumbers and Pipefitters Union Local 525's numbers.
- By total assets, Pension and Retirement Plan of Plumbers and Pipefitters Union Local 525 ranks in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets. See the largest plans
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- Joint Gov. Comm. Plumbers and Pipefitters Local Union No. 525's sponsor-wide assets have grown 8.8% since 2022 across 2 plan years on file. More Construction 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 886003864.
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.