Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

Bwxt Investment Company Pension Plan

Data updated 2026-07-24

$688M
Total assets
1,742
Participants
98th
Percentile by assets
$395,113
Avg per participant

Official DOL plan name: Bwxt Retirement Plan · Sponsored by Bwxt Investment Company · Virginia · Manufacturing

Bwxt Investment Company's Bwxt Retirement Plan reported $688M in total assets and 1,742 participants in its 2024 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 98th 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.

What the 2024 filing shows

Bwxt Retirement Plan holds $688M for 1,742 participants - about $395,113 per participant, in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets, down 6.6% over the 2024 plan year.

$688M
total plan assets (2024 EOY)
1,742
covered participants
98th
percentile by assets (of 116,472 plans)
$395,113
avg assets per participant

The plan reported a net loss of $48M for the year, a single-year figure driven by markets and benefit payments, not a measure of plan health.

State
Industry
Manufacturing

Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

What the Filing Says About Bwxt Retirement Plan

Bwxt Retirement Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by Bwxt Investment Company, headquartered in Virginia. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $688M in total end-of-year assets and covers 1,742 participants across the Manufacturing industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 721172705, and the plan has been effective since 2003-12-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets pulled back noticeably from $737M at the beginning of 2024 to $688M at year-end - down 6.6%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $688M, with reported net income of -$48M 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 Bwxt Investment Company has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $1.8B to $2.2B, a gain of 23.2%, while reported participants moved from 6,711 to 7,136 (+6.3%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $2.2B; the softest was 2022 at $1.8B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $1.8B in assets across 2 plans covering 6,711 participants; 2023 - $2.0B in assets across 2 plans covering 6,731 participants; 2024 - $2.2B in assets across 2 plans covering 7,136 participants.

By assets, Bwxt Retirement Plan outranks 98% of the 116,472 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2024 plan year, and holds roughly 6.9x 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 2024 Form 5500 with a reported end-of-year asset figure (116,472 plans), rank Bwxt 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 (2024)

Total Assets (Beginning of Year)$737M
Total Assets (End of Year)$688M
Net Assets (End of Year)$688M
Net Income-$48M
Plan TypeDefined Benefit (Pension)
Employer EIN721172705
Plan Effective Date2003-12-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Bwxt Investment Company)

$1.6B$1.8B$2B$2.2B$2.4B 202220232024 $1.81B $2.22B ▲ +22.7%
Total plan assets by year, all Bwxt Investment Company 401(k) plans on file
Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 2 6,711 $1.8B
2023 2 6,731 $2.0B
2024 2 7,136 $2.2B

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the Bwxt Retirement Plan?
As of the 2024 Form 5500 filing, Bwxt Retirement Plan holds $688M in total assets with 1,742 participants. It is sponsored by Bwxt Investment Company.
What type of plan is Bwxt Retirement Plan?
Bwxt Retirement Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) plan. It has been effective since 2003-12-01. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 721172705.
Who sponsors the Bwxt Retirement Plan?
Bwxt Retirement Plan is sponsored by Bwxt Investment Company, located in Virginia. The sponsor's EIN is 721172705 and the plan operates in the Manufacturing industry.
How did Bwxt Retirement Plan perform in 2024?
Bwxt Retirement Plan pulled back noticeably - down 6.6% during 2024, moving from $737M to $688M in total assets. Net income was -$48M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on Bwxt Retirement Plan's numbers.

  • By total assets, Bwxt Retirement Plan ranks in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets. See the largest plans
  • Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in Virginia. Compare plans
  • Bwxt Investment Company's sponsor-wide assets have grown 23.2% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Manufacturing plans
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), Form 5500 public disclosure dataset. Plan year 2024.

Source: DOL EFAST2 filing system (efast.dol.gov) - original filing retrieval by EIN 721172705.

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 2026-07-24.