401(k) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

Aarp Employees 401(k) Plan

Data updated 2026-05-15

$999M
Total assets
2,539
Participants
98th
Percentile by assets
$393,275
Avg per participant

Sponsored by AARP · District of Columbia · Other Services

What the 2024 filing shows

Aarp Employees 401(k) Plan holds $999M for 2,539 participants - about $393,275 per participant, in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets, up 12.7% over the 2024 plan year.

$999M
total plan assets (2024 EOY)
2,539
covered participants
98th
percentile by assets (of 116,472 plans)
$393,275
avg assets per participant
Industry
Other Services

401(k) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

What the Filing Says About Aarp Employees 401(k) Plan

Aarp Employees 401(k) Plan is a 401(k) retirement plan sponsored by AARP, headquartered in District of Columbia. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $999M in total end-of-year assets and covers 2,539 participants across the Other Services industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 951985500, and the plan has been effective since 1998-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $886M at the beginning of 2024 to $999M at year-end - up 12.7%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $999M, with reported net income of $113M 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 AARP has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $2.0B to $2.6B, a gain of 28.6%, while reported participants moved from 4,390 to 4,534 (+3.3%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $2.6B; the softest was 2022 at $2.0B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $2.0B in assets across 2 plans covering 4,390 participants; 2023 - $2.4B in assets across 2 plans covering 4,330 participants; 2024 - $2.6B in assets across 2 plans covering 4,534 participants.

By assets, Aarp Employees 401(k) Plan outranks 98% of the 116,472 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2024 plan year, and holds roughly 10.0x 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 Aarp Employees 401(k) 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)$886M
Total Assets (End of Year)$999M
Net Assets (End of Year)$999M
Net Income$113M
Plan Type401(k)
Employer EIN951985500
Plan Effective Date1998-01-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (AARP)

Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 2 4,390 $2.0B
2023 2 4,330 $2.4B
2024 2 4,534 $2.6B

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the Aarp Employees 401(k) Plan?
As of the 2024 Form 5500 filing, Aarp Employees 401(k) Plan holds $999M in total assets with 2,539 participants. It is sponsored by AARP.
What type of plan is Aarp Employees 401(k) Plan?
Aarp Employees 401(k) Plan is a 401(k) plan. It has been effective since 1998-01-01. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 951985500.
Who sponsors the Aarp Employees 401(k) Plan?
Aarp Employees 401(k) Plan is sponsored by AARP, located in District of Columbia. The sponsor's EIN is 951985500 and the plan operates in the Other Services industry.
How did Aarp Employees 401(k) Plan perform in 2024?
Aarp Employees 401(k) Plan grew at a solid clip - up 12.7% during 2024, moving from $886M to $999M in total assets. Net income was $113M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on Aarp Employees 401(k) Plan's numbers.

  • By total assets, Aarp Employees 401(k) Plan ranks in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets. See the largest plans
  • Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar 401(k) plans in District of Columbia. Compare plans
  • AARP's sponsor-wide assets have grown 28.6% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Other Services plans
  • A 401(k) 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 951985500.

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.