IBEW Local Union No. 98, Zone 2 Pension Trust Fund

Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

What the Filing Says About IBEW Local Union No. 98, Zone 2 Pension Trust Fund

IBEW Local Union No. 98, Zone 2 Pension Trust Fund is an Other retirement plan sponsored by IBEW Local Union 98, headquartered in Pennsylvania. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $119M in total end-of-year assets and covers 598 participants across the Construction industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 236583334, and the plan has been effective since 1962-11-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $110M at the beginning of 2024 to $119M at year-end - up 8.3%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $118M, with reported net income of $9M 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 IBEW Local Union 98 has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $99M to $119M, a gain of 19.5%, while reported participants moved from 543 to 598 (+10.1%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $119M; the softest was 2022 at $99M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $99M in assets across 1 plan covering 543 participants; 2023 - $110M in assets across 1 plan covering 559 participants; 2024 - $119M in assets across 1 plan covering 598 participants.

By assets, IBEW Local Union No. 98, Zone 2 Pension Trust Fund outranks 92% of the 116,472 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2024 plan year, and holds roughly 1.2x 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 IBEW Local Union No. 98, Zone 2 Pension Trust Fund 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.