Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

Avient Corporation Pension Plan

Data updated 2026-08-25

$344M
Total assets Above avg plan size
80
Participants Small participant base
96th
Percentile by assets National rank
$4.3M
Avg per participant High balance/head
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Official DOL plan name: Avient Merged Pension Plan · Sponsored by Avient Corporation · Ohio · Manufacturing

$344M in assets, 80 participants

Avient Corporation's Avient Merged Pension Plan reported $344M in total assets and 80 participants in its 2024 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 96th 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.

  • #16,712 in Manufacturing (17,777 peers)

Where Avient Merged Pension Plan sits by assets

Avient Merged Pension Plan sits in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets, $344M for 80 participants (~$4.3M/participant), down 4.7% in 2024.

#16,712
in Manufacturing (17,777 peers)
-4.7%
assets change YoY
3.5×
vs typical plan assets (national mean)

The plan reported a net loss of $17M for the year, a single-year figure driven by markets and benefit payments, not a measure of plan health.

Avient Merged Pension Plan's outsized position by total assets

Avient Merged Pension Plan vs every filed plan by assets

End-of-year total assets · plan year 2024 · DOL Form 5500

$344,042,539 Top 4% higher than 96% of 123,620 filed plans

This plan $0 $2,050,000,000 every filed plan with reported assets, bucketed by value

Dashed line + filled bar = this entry, among filed plans.

Source U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings (EBSA) · plan year 2024

Avient Merged Pension Plan among smaller filed plans by headcount

Plan-year 2024 Form 5500 filings with a reported participant count, partitioned by headcount band, not by assets. Avient Merged Pension Plan is a small filing (80 participants) on this national headcount ladder.

What changed between DOL Form 5500 filings

plan year 2023 → plan year 2024

  • Avient Merged Pension Plan reported net income fell from $1M in the plan year 2023 filing to -$17M in the plan year 2024 filing.
  • Avient Merged Pension Plan reported participants fell from 98 in the plan year 2023 filing to 80 in the plan year 2024 filing.
  • Avient Merged Pension Plan end-of-year assets fell from $361M in the plan year 2023 filing to $344M in the plan year 2024 filing.

See the national 2023→2024 release diff →

Plan-year Form 5500 strip

Filing strip 341730488 · Avient Corporation PY 2024 · Defined Benefit (Pension)

Avient Merged Pension Plan · $344M · 80 · 96th

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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 Ohio →

Avient Merged Pension Plan in the asset neighbourhood

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Partners Cash Balance PlanGibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP …$344MAvient Merged Pension Plan$344MUnity Health System Retirement PlanUnity Health System Retireme…$343MOak Ridge Reservation Cleanup Contract Pension Plan for Grandfathered EmployeesOak Ridge Reservation Cleanu…$343MNew Century Energies, Inc. Retirement Plan for Southwestern Public Service Co. Bargaining Unit Ee and Former Non-Bargaining Unit EmployeesNew Century Energies, Inc. R…$343M
End-of-year total assets ($M) among Avient Merged Pension Plan and nearest nationwide Defined Benefit (Pension) peers. Source: DOL Form 5500 plan year 2024.

Scale-class filing particulars (2024)

Total Assets (Beginning of Year)$361M
Net Assets (End of Year)$344M
Net Income-$17M
Employer EIN341730488
Plan Effective Date1993-04-29
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Avient Corporation)

Sponsor-wide plan assets over time

All Avient Corporation plans reported in each filing year

Latest sponsor-wide plan assets
$1.0B 9.424623103315884% vs 2022
2024 filing year
$0.9B$0.95B$1B$1.05B 202220232024 $0.93B $1.02B ▲ +9.7%
Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 2 3,013 $934M
2023 2 3,343 $989M
2024 2 3,185 $1.0B

Nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) Plans in Ohio

Peer Defined Benefit (Pension) plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.

Avient Merged Pension Plan vs. nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in Ohio, assets vs. participants Scatter plot of 6 data points. -500005000100001500020000 -505101520 Total assets ($B) Participants Avient Merged Pension Plan, Total assets ($B): 0.344042539 · Participants: 80Avient Merged Pension PlanGE Aerospace Pension Plan, Total assets ($B): 19.026079363 · Participants: 9637GE Aerospace Pension PlanFirstenergy Corp. Master Pension Plan, Total assets ($B): 6.474467697 · Participants: 12187Firstenergy Corp. Master Pension PlanAmerican Electric Power System Retirement Plan, Total assets ($B): 4.085797504 · Participants: 16073American Electric Power System Retirement PlanOhio Operating Engineers Pension Plan, Total assets ($B): 3.912834719 · Participants: 10387Ohio Operating Engineers Pension PlanParker Defined Benefit Pension Plan, Total assets ($B): 3.496388263 · Participants: 8120Parker Defined Benefit Pension Plan
Avient Merged Pension Plan vs. nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in Ohio, assets vs. participants
Compare Avient Merged Pension Plan side-by-side with 3 peers →

Avient Merged Pension Plan's out-of-state Defined Benefit (Pension) peers by assets and headcount

Outside Ohio, the nearest Defined Benefit (Pension) by assets is Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Partners Cash Balance Plan in CA ($344M); by covered participants it is Keystone Folding Box Company Retirement Plan in NJ (80 participants). Same-state nearby plans are listed separately above.

Similar participant headcount

Nearest other-state filings by covered participants (80 participants); asset peers above are excluded.

DOL Form 5500 plan year 2024. Asset totals can differ widely at the same headcount; neither axis is a quality rating.

Frequently Asked Questions

How did Avient Merged Pension Plan assets move in 2024? ▼
Avient Merged Pension Plan edged down modestly - down 4.7% during 2024, from $361M to $344M. Reported net income was -$17M.
How have Avient Corporation plan assets changed over time? ▼
Across 3 plan years on file (2022-2024), Avient Corporation's sponsor-wide assets grew 9.4%, from $934M to $1.0B.
Where does Avient Merged Pension Plan rank by assets among Form 5500 filers? ▼
Avient Merged Pension Plan ranks in the 96th percentile by end-of-year assets among 123,622 plans that reported assets for plan year 2024 (in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets).
Which Defined Benefit (Pension) plans are similar in size to Avient Merged Pension Plan? ▼
Among Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in other states, the closest by assets is Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Partners Cash Balance Plan in CA ($344M, 328 participants).
Which Defined Benefit (Pension) plans cover a similar participant headcount to Avient Merged Pension Plan? ▼
Among Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in other states, the closest by covered participants is Keystone Folding Box Company Retirement Plan in NJ (80 participants, $8M in assets).

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 341730488.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings (EBSA). See our methodology for details.