Other Ā· DOL Form 5500 Ā· 2023
Pacific Hide & Fur Depot D/B/a Pacific Steel & Recycling ESOP
Data updated 2026-05-15
- $442M
- Total assets
- 824
- Participants
- 97th
- Percentile by assets
- $536,127
- Avg per participant
Sponsored by Pacific Hide & Fur Depot D/B/a Pacific Steel and Recycling Ā· Montana Ā· Wholesale Trade
What the 2023 filing shows
Pacific Hide & Fur Depot D/B/a Pacific Steel & Recycling ESOP holds $442M for 824 participants - about $536,127 per participant, in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets, up 1.3% over the 2023 plan year.
- $442M
- total plan assets (2023 EOY)
- 824
- covered participants
- 97th
- percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
- $536,127
- avg assets per participant
The plan reported a net loss of $20M for the year, a single-year figure driven by markets and benefit payments, not a measure of plan health.
Other Ā· DOL Form 5500 Ā· 2023
What the Filing Says About Pacific Hide & Fur Depot D/B/a Pacific Steel & Recycling ESOP
Pacific Hide & Fur Depot D/B/a Pacific Steel & Recycling ESOP is an Other retirement plan sponsored by Pacific Hide & Fur Depot D/B/a Pacific Steel and Recycling, headquartered in Montana. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $442M in total end-of-year assets and covers 824 participants across the Wholesale Trade industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 810246538, and the plan has been effective since 1977-09-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.
Year over year, total assets edged up modestly from $436M at the beginning of 2023 to $442M at year-end - up 1.3%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $315M, with reported net income of -$20M 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 Pacific Hide & Fur Depot D/B/a Pacific Steel and Recycling has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $465M to $38M, a decline of 91.7%, while reported participants moved from 1,623 to 831 (-48.8%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2023 at $476M; the softest was 2024 at $38M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $465M in assets across 2 plans covering 1,623 participants; 2023 - $476M in assets across 2 plans covering 1,619 participants; 2024 - $38M in assets across 1 plan covering 831 participants.
By assets, Pacific Hide & Fur Depot D/B/a Pacific Steel & Recycling ESOP outranks 97% of the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 4.4x 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 Pacific Hide & Fur Depot D/B/a Pacific Steel & Recycling ESOP 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) | $436M |
|---|---|
| Total Assets (End of Year) | $442M |
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $315M |
| Net Income | -$20M |
| Plan Type | Other |
| Employer EIN | 810246538 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1977-09-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Pacific Hide & Fur Depot D/B/a Pacific Steel and Recycling)
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | 1,623 | $465M |
| 2023 | 2 | 1,619 | $476M |
| 2024 | 1 | 831 | $38M |
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What this filing means
Ways to act on Pacific Hide & Fur Depot D/B/a Pacific Steel & Recycling ESOP's numbers.
- By total assets, Pacific Hide & Fur Depot D/B/a Pacific Steel & Recycling ESOP ranks in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets. See the largest plans
- Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar Other plans in Montana. Compare plans
- Pacific Hide & Fur Depot D/B/a Pacific Steel and Recycling's sponsor-wide assets have declined 91.7% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Wholesale Trade plans
- An Other 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 810246538.
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 2026-05-15.