Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024
Trustees of the Laundry,Dry Cleaning Wo Rkers and Allied Industries Re Pension Plan
Data updated 2026-07-24
- $193M
- Total assets
- 2,130
- Participants
- 94th
- Percentile by assets
- $90,758
- Avg per participant
Official DOL plan name: Laundry, Dry Cleaning Workers & Allied Industries Retirement Fund, Workers United · Sponsored by Trustees of the Laundry,Dry Cleaning Wo Rkers and Allied Industries Re · New York · Other Services
$193M in assets, 2,130 participants
Trustees of the Laundry,Dry Cleaning Wo Rkers and Allied Industries Re's Laundry, Dry Cleaning Workers & Allied Industries Retirement Fund, Workers United reported $193M in total assets and 2,130 participants in its 2024 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 94th 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.
- 94th percentile by assets (of 116,472 plans)
What the 2024 filing shows
Laundry, Dry Cleaning Workers & Allied Industries Retirement Fund, Workers United holds $193M for 2,130 participants - about $90,758 per participant, in the top 10% of all filed plans by assets, up 3.8% over the 2024 plan year.
- $193M
- total plan assets (2024 EOY)
- 2,130
- covered participants
- 94th
- percentile by assets (of 116,472 plans)
- $90,758
- avg assets per participant
Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024
What the Filing Says About Laundry, Dry Cleaning Workers & Allied Industries Retirement Fund, Workers United
Laundry, Dry Cleaning Workers & Allied Industries Retirement Fund, Workers United is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by Trustees of the Laundry,Dry Cleaning Wo Rkers and Allied Industries Re, headquartered in New York. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $193M in total end-of-year assets and covers 2,130 participants across the Other Services industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 135521921, and the plan has been effective since 1980-04-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.
Year over year, total assets edged up modestly from $186M at the beginning of 2024 to $193M at year-end - up 3.8%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $193M, with reported net income of $7M 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 Trustees of the Laundry,Dry Cleaning Wo Rkers and Allied Industries Re has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $174M to $193M, a gain of 10.9%, while reported participants moved from 2,220 to 2,130 (-4.1%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $193M; the softest was 2022 at $174M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $174M in assets across 1 plan covering 2,220 participants; 2023 - $186M in assets across 1 plan covering 2,158 participants; 2024 - $193M in assets across 1 plan covering 2,130 participants.
By assets, Laundry, Dry Cleaning Workers & Allied Industries Retirement Fund, Workers United outranks 94% of the 116,472 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2024 plan year, and holds roughly 1.9x 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 Laundry, Dry Cleaning Workers & Allied Industries Retirement Fund, Workers United 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) | $186M |
|---|---|
| Total Assets (End of Year) | $193M |
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $193M |
| Net Income | $7M |
| Plan Type | Defined Benefit (Pension) |
| Employer EIN | 135521921 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1980-04-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Trustees of the Laundry,Dry Cleaning Wo Rkers and Allied Industries Re)
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 2,220 | $174M |
| 2023 | 1 | 2,158 | $186M |
| 2024 | 1 | 2,130 | $193M |
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What this filing means
Ways to act on Laundry, Dry Cleaning Workers & Allied Industries Retirement Fund, Workers United's numbers.
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- Trustees of the Laundry,Dry Cleaning Wo Rkers and Allied Industries Re's sponsor-wide assets have grown 10.9% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Other Services plans
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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 135521921.
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.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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 2026-07-24.