Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

Pension Plan for Eaton Corporation Employees

Data updated 2026-05-15

$2.4B
Total assets
8,410
Participants
99th
Percentile by assets
$290,760
Avg per participant

Sponsored by Eaton Corporation · Ohio · Manufacturing

What the 2024 filing shows

Pension Plan for Eaton Corporation Employees holds $2.4B for 8,410 participants - about $290,760 per participant, among the largest 1% of all filed plans, down 6.1% over the 2024 plan year.

$2.4B
total plan assets (2024 EOY)
8,410
covered participants
99th
percentile by assets (of 116,472 plans)
$290,760
avg assets per participant

The plan reported a net loss of $159M for the year, a single-year figure driven by markets and benefit payments, not a measure of plan health.

State
Industry
Manufacturing

Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

What the Filing Says About Pension Plan for Eaton Corporation Employees

Pension Plan for Eaton Corporation Employees is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by Eaton Corporation, headquartered in Ohio. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $2.4B in total end-of-year assets and covers 8,410 participants across the Manufacturing industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 340196300, and the plan has been effective since 1944-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets pulled back noticeably from $2.6B at the beginning of 2024 to $2.4B at year-end - down 6.1%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $2.4B, with reported net income of -$159M 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 Eaton Corporation has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $8.9B to $11.1B, a gain of 24.7%, while reported participants moved from 34,855 to 35,808 (+2.7%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2023 at $16.8B; the softest was 2022 at $8.9B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $8.9B in assets across 3 plans covering 34,855 participants; 2023 - $16.8B in assets across 4 plans covering 61,749 participants; 2024 - $11.1B in assets across 3 plans covering 35,808 participants.

By assets, Pension Plan for Eaton Corporation Employees outranks 99% of the 116,472 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2024 plan year, and holds roughly 24x 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 Pension Plan for Eaton Corporation Employees 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)$2.6B
Total Assets (End of Year)$2.4B
Net Assets (End of Year)$2.4B
Net Income-$159M
Plan TypeDefined Benefit (Pension)
Employer EIN340196300
Plan Effective Date1944-01-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Eaton Corporation)

Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 3 34,855 $8.9B
2023 4 61,749 $16.8B
2024 3 35,808 $11.1B

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the Pension Plan for Eaton Corporation Employees?
As of the 2024 Form 5500 filing, Pension Plan for Eaton Corporation Employees holds $2.4B in total assets with 8,410 participants. It is sponsored by Eaton Corporation.
What type of plan is Pension Plan for Eaton Corporation Employees?
Pension Plan for Eaton Corporation Employees is a Defined Benefit (Pension) plan. It has been effective since 1944-01-01. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 340196300.
Who sponsors the Pension Plan for Eaton Corporation Employees?
Pension Plan for Eaton Corporation Employees is sponsored by Eaton Corporation, located in Ohio. The sponsor's EIN is 340196300 and the plan operates in the Manufacturing industry.
How did Pension Plan for Eaton Corporation Employees perform in 2024?
Pension Plan for Eaton Corporation Employees pulled back noticeably - down 6.1% during 2024, moving from $2.6B to $2.4B in total assets. Net income was -$159M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on Pension Plan for Eaton Corporation Employees'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 340196300.

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.