Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024
Celanese Americas LLC Pension Plan
Data updated 2026-08-11
- $1.9B
- Total assets
- 1,096
- Participants
- 99th
- Percentile by assets
- $1.7M
- Avg per participant
Official DOL plan name: Celanese Americas Retirement Pension Plan · Sponsored by Celanese Americas LLC · Texas · Manufacturing
$1.9B in assets, 1,096 participants
Celanese Americas LLC's Celanese Americas Retirement Pension Plan reported $1.9B in total assets and 1,096 participants in its 2024 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 123,622 plans)
- #17,509 in Manufacturing (17,777 peers)
Where Celanese Americas Retirement Pension Plan sits by assets
Celanese Americas Retirement Pension Plan sits among the largest 1% of all filed plans, $1.9B for 1,096 participants (~$1.7M/participant), down 9.0% in 2024.
- $1.9B
- total plan assets (2024 EOY)
- 1,096
- covered participants
- 99th
- percentile by assets (of 123,622 plans)
- $1.7M
- avg assets per participant
The plan reported a net loss of $149M for the year, a single-year figure driven by markets and benefit payments, not a measure of plan health.
What changed between DOL Form 5500 filings
plan year 2023 → plan year 2024
- Celanese Americas Retirement Pension Plan reported net income fell from -$9M in the plan year 2023 filing to -$149M in the plan year 2024 filing.
- Celanese Americas Retirement Pension Plan end-of-year assets fell from $2.1B in the plan year 2023 filing to $1.9B in the plan year 2024 filing.
- Celanese Americas Retirement Pension Plan reported participants fell from 1,192 in the plan year 2023 filing to 1,096 in the plan year 2024 filing.
Celanese Americas Retirement Pension Plan vs the 2024 asset distribution
By assets, Celanese Americas Retirement Pension Plan outranks 99% of the 123,622 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2024 plan year, and holds roughly 19x the national average plan size of $100M (721 average participants).
Scale-class filing particulars (2024)
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $2.1B |
|---|---|
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $1.9B |
| Net Income | -$149M |
| Employer EIN | 221862783 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1947-07-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Celanese Americas LLC)
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | 4,409 | $2.8B |
| 2023 | 3 | 4,445 | $3.0B |
| 2024 | 2 | 4,163 | $2.9B |
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