Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

U. a. Local No. 343 Defined Benefit Plan

Data updated 2026-05-15

$160M
Total assets
245
Participants
93th
Percentile by assets
$651,876
Avg per participant

Sponsored by U.a. Local No. 343 Pension Trust · California · Construction

What the 2024 filing shows

U. a. Local No. 343 Defined Benefit Plan holds $160M for 245 participants - about $651,876 per participant, in the top 10% of all filed plans by assets, up 6.5% over the 2024 plan year.

$160M
total plan assets (2024 EOY)
245
covered participants
93th
percentile by assets (of 116,472 plans)
$651,876
avg assets per participant
State
Industry
Construction

Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

What the Filing Says About U. a. Local No. 343 Defined Benefit Plan

U. a. Local No. 343 Defined Benefit Plan is an Other retirement plan sponsored by U.a. Local No. 343 Pension Trust, headquartered in California. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $160M in total end-of-year assets and covers 245 participants across the Construction industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 946092775, and the plan has been effective since 1994-07-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $150M at the beginning of 2024 to $160M at year-end - up 6.5%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $160M, with reported net income of $10M 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 U.a. Local No. 343 Pension Trust has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $188M to $228M, a gain of 21.2%, while reported participants moved from 1,797 to 1,734 (-3.5%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $228M; the softest was 2022 at $188M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $188M in assets across 2 plans covering 1,797 participants; 2023 - $211M in assets across 2 plans covering 1,795 participants; 2024 - $228M in assets across 2 plans covering 1,734 participants.

By assets, U. a. Local No. 343 Defined Benefit Plan outranks 93% of the 116,472 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2024 plan year, and holds roughly 1.6x 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 U. a. Local No. 343 Defined Benefit 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)$150M
Total Assets (End of Year)$160M
Net Assets (End of Year)$160M
Net Income$10M
Plan TypeOther
Employer EIN946092775
Plan Effective Date1994-07-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (U.a. Local No. 343 Pension Trust)

Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 2 1,797 $188M
2023 2 1,795 $211M
2024 2 1,734 $228M

Nearby Other Plans in California

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the U. a. Local No. 343 Defined Benefit Plan?
As of the 2024 Form 5500 filing, U. a. Local No. 343 Defined Benefit Plan holds $160M in total assets with 245 participants. It is sponsored by U.a. Local No. 343 Pension Trust.
What type of plan is U. a. Local No. 343 Defined Benefit Plan?
U. a. Local No. 343 Defined Benefit Plan is an Other plan. It has been effective since 1994-07-01. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 946092775.
Who sponsors the U. a. Local No. 343 Defined Benefit Plan?
U. a. Local No. 343 Defined Benefit Plan is sponsored by U.a. Local No. 343 Pension Trust, located in California. The sponsor's EIN is 946092775 and the plan operates in the Construction industry.
How did U. a. Local No. 343 Defined Benefit Plan perform in 2024?
U. a. Local No. 343 Defined Benefit Plan grew at a solid clip - up 6.5% during 2024, moving from $150M to $160M in total assets. Net income was $10M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on U. a. Local No. 343 Defined Benefit Plan's numbers.

  • By total assets, U. a. Local No. 343 Defined Benefit Plan ranks in the top 10% of all filed plans by assets. See the largest plans
  • Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar Other plans in California. Compare plans
  • U.a. Local No. 343 Pension Trust's sponsor-wide assets have grown 21.2% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Construction plans
  • An Other plan works differently from other retirement plan types, understand the structural differences before comparing. Compare plan types

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 946092775.

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.