Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024
Pfizer Inc Pension Plan
Data updated 2026-08-25
- $10.0B
- Total assets Mega-plan scale
- 8,876
- Participants Very large workforce
- 100th
- Percentile by assets National rank
- $1.1M
- Avg per participant High balance/head
Official DOL plan name: Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan · Sponsored by Pfizer Inc · New York · Manufacturing
$10.0B in assets, 8,876 participants
Pfizer Inc's Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan reported $10.0B in total assets and 8,876 participants in its 2024 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 100th 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.
- #17,720 in Manufacturing (17,777 peers)
Coverage in New York
Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan covers 8,876 participants in New York, 11x the typical New York plan (state average ~798 per filing). Assets: $10.0B.
- #17,720
- in Manufacturing (17,777 peers)
- -9.0%
- assets change YoY
- 100×
- vs typical plan assets (national mean)
The plan reported a net loss of $684M for the year, a single-year figure driven by markets and benefit payments, not a measure of plan health.
Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan's outsized position by total assets
Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan vs every filed plan by assets
End-of-year total assets · plan year 2024 · DOL Form 5500
$9,970,337,119 Highest reported value at or above every one of 123,620 filed plans
Dashed line + filled bar = this entry, among filed plans.
Source U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings (EBSA) · plan year 2024
Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan's large-plan peer group by participant headcount
Plan-year 2024 Form 5500 filings with a reported participant count, partitioned by headcount band, not by assets. Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan lands in the large band (8,876 participants).
What changed between DOL Form 5500 filings
plan year 2023 → plan year 2024
- Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan reported net income fell from $19M in the plan year 2023 filing to -$684M in the plan year 2024 filing.
- Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan end-of-year assets fell from $11.0B in the plan year 2023 filing to $10.0B in the plan year 2024 filing.
- Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan reported participants fell from 9,616 in the plan year 2023 filing to 8,876 in the plan year 2024 filing.
Plan-year Form 5500 strip
Filing strip 135315170 · Pfizer Inc PY 2024 · Defined Benefit (Pension)
Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan · $10.0B · 8,876 · 100th
- EOY $10.0B
- 5500 8,876
- ASSETS 100th
- PCT Defined Benefit (Pension)
- EIN near The Citigroup Pension Plan
- RANK ind #17720
Stamps derive from this plan's Form 5500 line items (assets, participants, type, EIN, cohort placement) - not a quality rating of the sponsor. Read with Manufacturing retirement plans → · Plans in New York →
Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan in the asset neighbourhood
New York filing particulars
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $11.0B |
|---|---|
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $10.0B |
| Net Income | -$684M |
| Employer EIN | 135315170 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1943-01-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Pfizer Inc)
Sponsor-wide plan assets over time
All Pfizer Inc plans reported in each filing year
- Latest sponsor-wide plan assets
- $32.0B 10.856170522511556% vs 2022
- 2024 filing year
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7 | 39,879 | $28.8B |
| 2023 | 4 | 39,678 | $30.6B |
| 2024 | 4 | 42,215 | $32.0B |
Nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) Plans in New York
Peer Defined Benefit (Pension) plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
- IBM Personal Pension Plan $17.9B · 48,014
- 1199seiu Health Care Employees Pension Fund $16.9B · 111,833
- Consolidated Edison Retirement Plan $15.6B · 10,608
- GE Energy Pension Plan $8.9B · 5,829
- Pepsico Employees Retirement Plan I $6.8B · 11,289
Scale composition for Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan
Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan reports $10.0B in end-of-year assets across 8,876 participants (0.081% of the $12.3T held by all Form 5500 filers in the national rollup , and 0.009% of 93,925,755 covered participants) - about $1.1M per participant (8.1x the national average assets-per-participant) . Net income for plan year 2024 was -$684M.
This plan identity (EIN 135315170, plan #001) has 3 Form 5500 filings on file from 2022 to 2024 , with end-of-year assets moving from $10.9B to $10.0B (-8.3%) while covered participants moved from 10,752 to 8,876 . Single-year sparse filers cannot show that trail.
| Plan year | Participants | EOY assets | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 10,752 | $10.9B | Open filing |
| 2023 | 9,616 | $11.0B | Open filing |
| 2024 · index core | 8,876 | $10.0B | This page |
The same sponsor also keeps 1 other index-core plan on PlainRetire:
- Pfizer Savings Plan (401(k), $22.0B, 33,309 participants)
Pfizer Consolidated Pension Plan's out-of-state Defined Benefit (Pension) peers by assets and headcount
Outside New York, the nearest Defined Benefit (Pension) by assets is The Citigroup Pension Plan in CT ($10.0B); by covered participants it is U. S. Retirement Plan in NJ (8,869 participants). Same-state nearby plans are listed separately above.
Closest by plan assets
Nearest other-state filings by tot_assets_eoy ($10.0B here).
- The Citigroup Pension Plan (CT) $10.0B · 15,906
- Merck US Pension Plan (NJ) $10.1B · 26,843
- Chevron Retirement Plan (TX) $9.7B · 21,297
- Shell Pension Plan (TX) $9.7B · 12,688
Similar participant headcount
Nearest other-state filings by covered participants (8,876 participants); asset peers above are excluded.
- U. S. Retirement Plan (NJ) 8,869 · 7 off
- Southern California IBEW-NECA Pension Plan (CA) 8,896 · 20 off
- Exelon Corporation Retirement Program (IL) 8,898 · 22 off
- SEIU Affiliates Officers and Employees Pension Plan (DC) 8,921 · 45 off
DOL Form 5500 plan year 2024. Asset totals can differ widely at the same headcount; neither axis is a quality rating.