Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

National Telecommunications Cooperative Association Pension Plan

Data updated 2026-08-25

$2.5B
Total assets Very large vs avg
9,988
Participants Very large workforce
99th
Percentile by assets National rank
$252,272
Avg per participant Above avg balance/head
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Official DOL plan name: Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members · Sponsored by National Telecommunications Cooperative Association · Virginia · Information & Media

$2.5B in assets, 9,988 participants

National Telecommunications Cooperative Association's Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members reported $2.5B in total assets and 9,988 participants in its 2024 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 99th 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.

  • #2,781 in Information & Media (2,822 peers)

Coverage in Virginia

Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members covers 9,988 participants in Virginia, 13x the typical Virginia plan (state average ~782 per filing). Assets: $2.5B.

#2,781
in Information & Media (2,822 peers)
+10.0%
assets growth YoY
25×
vs typical plan assets (national mean)

Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members's outsized position by total assets

Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members vs every filed plan by assets

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

$2,519,692,312 Top 1% higher than 99% 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

Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members'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. Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members lands in the large band (9,988 participants).

What changed between DOL Form 5500 filings

plan year 2023 → plan year 2024

  • Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members reported net income rose from $75M in the plan year 2023 filing to $239M in the plan year 2024 filing.
  • Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members end-of-year assets rose from $2.3B in the plan year 2023 filing to $2.5B in the plan year 2024 filing.
  • Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members reported participants fell from 10,052 in the plan year 2023 filing to 9,988 in the plan year 2024 filing.

See the national 2023→2024 release diff →

Published 5500 schedule card

Filing strip 520741336 · National Telecommunications Cooperative Association PY 2024 · Defined Benefit (Pension)

Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members · $2.5B · 9,988 · 99th

  • EOY $2.5B
  • 5500 9,988
  • ASSETS 99th
  • PCT Defined Benefit (Pension)
  • EIN near Massachusetts Laborers' Pension Fund
  • RANK ind #2781

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 Information & Media retirement plans → · Plans in Virginia →

Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members in the asset neighbourhood

The Hcsc Employee Pension PlanThe Hcsc Employee Pension Pl…$2.5BRetirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its MembersRetirement&security Program …$2.5BMassachusetts Laborers' Pension FundMassachusetts Laborers' Pens…$2.5BMassmutual Pension Plan$2.5BNewyork-Presbyterian Pension PlanNewyork-Presbyterian Pension…$2.5B
End-of-year total assets ($B) among Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members and nearest nationwide Defined Benefit (Pension) peers. Source: DOL Form 5500 plan year 2024.

Virginia filing particulars

Total Assets (Beginning of Year)$2.3B
Net Assets (End of Year)$2.5B
Net Income$239M
Employer EIN520741336
Plan Effective Date1959-01-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (National Telecommunications Cooperative Association)

Sponsor-wide plan assets over time

All National Telecommunications Cooperative Association plans reported in each filing year

Latest sponsor-wide plan assets
$5.9B 21.4517316107359% vs 2022
2024 filing year
$4.5B$5B$5.5B$6B 202220232024 $4.84B $5.88B ▲ +21.5%
Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 2 32,763 $4.8B
2023 2 32,322 $5.3B
2024 2 33,122 $5.9B

Nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) Plans in Virginia

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

Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members vs. nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in Virginia, assets vs. participants Scatter plot of 6 data points. 020000400006000080000 05101520 Total assets ($B) Participants Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members, Total assets ($B): 2.519692312 · Participants: 9988Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its MembersNorthrop Grumman Pension Plan, Total assets ($B): 18.781759216 · Participants: 12678Northrop Grumman Pension PlanRetirement Security Plan, Total assets ($B): 11.481735153 · Participants: 56633Retirement Security PlanSheet Metal Workers' National Pension Fund, Total assets ($B): 8.902237059 · Participants: 63530Sheet Metal Workers' National Pension FundNg Space&mission Systems Corp Salaried Pension Pla, Total assets ($B): 8.398702873 · Participants: 6737Ng Space&mission Systems Corp Salaried Pension PlaDominion Energy Pension Plan, Total assets ($B): 8.332769083 · Participants: 11758Dominion Energy Pension Plan
Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members vs. nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in Virginia, assets vs. participants
Compare Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members side-by-side with 3 peers →

Scale composition for Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members

Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members reports $2.5B in end-of-year assets across 9,988 participants (0.020% of the $12.3T held by all Form 5500 filers in the national rollup , and 0.011% of 93,925,755 covered participants) - about $252,272 per participant (1.8x the national average assets-per-participant) . Net income for plan year 2024 was $239M.

This plan identity (EIN 520741336, plan #333) has 3 Form 5500 filings on file from 2022 to 2024 , with end-of-year assets moving from $2.2B to $2.5B (+13.7%) while covered participants moved from 10,724 to 9,988 . Single-year sparse filers cannot show that trail.

Plan year Participants EOY assets Filing
2022 10,724 $2.2B Open filing
2023 10,052 $2.3B Open filing
2024 · index core 9,988 $2.5B This page

The same sponsor also keeps 1 other index-core plan on PlainRetire:

Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members's out-of-state Defined Benefit (Pension) peers by assets and headcount

Outside Virginia, the nearest Defined Benefit (Pension) by assets is Massachusetts Laborers' Pension Fund in MA ($2.5B); by covered participants it is Disney Salaried Pension Plan D in CA (9,984 participants). Same-state nearby plans are listed separately above.

Closest by plan assets

Nearest other-state filings by tot_assets_eoy ($2.5B here).

Similar participant headcount

Nearest other-state filings by covered participants (9,988 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 Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members assets move in 2024? ▼
Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members grew at a solid clip - up 10.0% during 2024, from $2.3B to $2.5B. Reported net income was $239M.
How have National Telecommunications Cooperative Association plan assets changed over time? ▼
Across 3 plan years on file (2022-2024), National Telecommunications Cooperative Association's sponsor-wide assets grew 21.5%, from $4.8B to $5.9B.
Where does Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members rank by assets among Form 5500 filers? ▼
Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members ranks in the 99th percentile by end-of-year assets among 123,622 plans that reported assets for plan year 2024 (among the largest 1% of all filed plans).
Which Defined Benefit (Pension) plans are similar in size to Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members? ▼
Among Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in other states, the closest by assets is Massachusetts Laborers' Pension Fund in MA ($2.5B, 10,203 participants).
Which Defined Benefit (Pension) plans cover a similar participant headcount to Retirement&security Program for Employees of Ntca and Its Members? ▼
Among Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in other states, the closest by covered participants is Disney Salaried Pension Plan D in CA (9,984 participants, $10.4B 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 520741336.

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.