401(k) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

Wakemed Retirement Savings Plan

Data updated 2026-05-15

$1.4B
Total assets
11,105
Participants
99th
Percentile by assets
$129,865
Avg per participant

Sponsored by WAKEMED · North Carolina · Healthcare & Social Assistance

What the 2024 filing shows

Wakemed Retirement Savings Plan holds $1.4B for 11,105 participants - about $129,865 per participant, among the largest 1% of all filed plans, up 15.8% over the 2024 plan year.

$1.4B
total plan assets (2024 EOY)
11,105
covered participants
99th
percentile by assets (of 116,472 plans)
$129,865
avg assets per participant
Industry
Healthcare & Social Assistance

401(k) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

What the Filing Says About Wakemed Retirement Savings Plan

Wakemed Retirement Savings Plan is a 401(k) retirement plan sponsored by WAKEMED, headquartered in North Carolina. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $1.4B in total end-of-year assets and covers 11,105 participants across the Healthcare & Social Assistance industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 566017737, and the plan has been effective since 1990-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets grew sharply from $1.2B at the beginning of 2024 to $1.4B at year-end - up 15.8%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $1.4B, with reported net income of $197M 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 WAKEMED has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $1.2B to $1.5B, a gain of 27.7%, while reported participants moved from 13,855 to 12,940 (-6.6%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $1.5B; the softest was 2022 at $1.2B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $1.2B in assets across 2 plans covering 13,855 participants; 2023 - $1.3B in assets across 2 plans covering 13,748 participants; 2024 - $1.5B in assets across 2 plans covering 12,940 participants.

By assets, Wakemed Retirement Savings Plan outranks 99% of the 116,472 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2024 plan year, and holds roughly 14x 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 Wakemed Retirement Savings 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)$1.2B
Total Assets (End of Year)$1.4B
Net Assets (End of Year)$1.4B
Net Income$197M
Plan Type401(k)
Employer EIN566017737
Plan Effective Date1990-01-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (WAKEMED)

Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 2 13,855 $1.2B
2023 2 13,748 $1.3B
2024 2 12,940 $1.5B

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the Wakemed Retirement Savings Plan?
As of the 2024 Form 5500 filing, Wakemed Retirement Savings Plan holds $1.4B in total assets with 11,105 participants. It is sponsored by WAKEMED.
What type of plan is Wakemed Retirement Savings Plan?
Wakemed Retirement Savings Plan is a 401(k) plan. It has been effective since 1990-01-01. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 566017737.
Who sponsors the Wakemed Retirement Savings Plan?
Wakemed Retirement Savings Plan is sponsored by WAKEMED, located in North Carolina. The sponsor's EIN is 566017737 and the plan operates in the Healthcare & Social Assistance industry.
How did Wakemed Retirement Savings Plan perform in 2024?
Wakemed Retirement Savings Plan grew sharply - up 15.8% during 2024, moving from $1.2B to $1.4B in total assets. Net income was $197M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on Wakemed Retirement Savings Plan's numbers.

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 566017737.

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 2026-05-15.