401(k) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

United Therapeutics Corporation Employees' Retirement Plan

Data updated 2026-05-15

$298M
Total assets
1,162
Participants
96th
Percentile by assets
$256,405
Avg per participant

Sponsored by United Therapeutics Corporation · Maryland · Professional & Technical Services

What the 2024 filing shows

United Therapeutics Corporation Employees' Retirement Plan holds $298M for 1,162 participants - about $256,405 per participant, in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets, up 24.7% over the 2024 plan year.

$298M
total plan assets (2024 EOY)
1,162
covered participants
96th
percentile by assets (of 116,472 plans)
$256,405
avg assets per participant
State
Industry
Professional & Technical Services

401(k) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

What the Filing Says About United Therapeutics Corporation Employees' Retirement Plan

United Therapeutics Corporation Employees' Retirement Plan is a 401(k) retirement plan sponsored by United Therapeutics Corporation, headquartered in Maryland. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $298M in total end-of-year assets and covers 1,162 participants across the Professional & Technical Services industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 521984749, and the plan has been effective since 1999-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets grew sharply from $239M at the beginning of 2024 to $298M at year-end - up 24.7%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $298M, with reported net income of $59M 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 United Therapeutics Corporation has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $186M to $298M, a gain of 60.2%, while reported participants moved from 958 to 1,162 (+21.3%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $298M; the softest was 2022 at $186M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $186M in assets across 1 plan covering 958 participants; 2023 - $239M in assets across 1 plan covering 979 participants; 2024 - $298M in assets across 1 plan covering 1,162 participants.

By assets, United Therapeutics Corporation Employees' Retirement Plan outranks 96% of the 116,472 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2024 plan year, and holds roughly 3.0x 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 United Therapeutics Corporation Employees' 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)$239M
Total Assets (End of Year)$298M
Net Assets (End of Year)$298M
Net Income$59M
Plan Type401(k)
Employer EIN521984749
Plan Effective Date1999-01-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (United Therapeutics Corporation)

Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 1 958 $186M
2023 1 979 $239M
2024 1 1,162 $298M

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the United Therapeutics Corporation Employees' Retirement Plan?
As of the 2024 Form 5500 filing, United Therapeutics Corporation Employees' Retirement Plan holds $298M in total assets with 1,162 participants. It is sponsored by United Therapeutics Corporation.
What type of plan is United Therapeutics Corporation Employees' Retirement Plan?
United Therapeutics Corporation Employees' Retirement Plan is a 401(k) plan. It has been effective since 1999-01-01. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 521984749.
Who sponsors the United Therapeutics Corporation Employees' Retirement Plan?
United Therapeutics Corporation Employees' Retirement Plan is sponsored by United Therapeutics Corporation, located in Maryland. The sponsor's EIN is 521984749 and the plan operates in the Professional & Technical Services industry.
How did United Therapeutics Corporation Employees' Retirement Plan perform in 2024?
United Therapeutics Corporation Employees' Retirement Plan grew sharply - up 24.7% during 2024, moving from $239M to $298M in total assets. Net income was $59M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on United Therapeutics Corporation Employees' Retirement 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 521984749.

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.