Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Pension Plan

Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

What the Filing Says About Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Pension Plan

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Pension Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by Salado Isolation Mining Contractors, LLC, headquartered in New Mexico. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $233M in total end-of-year assets and covers 1,041 participants across the Administrative & Support Services industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 824745477, and the plan has been effective since 1998-08-31. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets edged up modestly from $224M at the beginning of 2024 to $233M at year-end - up 4.1%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $233M, with reported net income of $18M 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 1 prior plan-year filing from the same sponsor shown below.

Across the 2 plan years Salado Isolation Mining Contractors, LLC has on file with PlainRetire (2023-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $362M to $384M, a gain of 6.0%, while reported participants moved from 1,944 to 2,118 (+9.0%). Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2023 - $362M in assets across 2 plans covering 1,944 participants; 2024 - $384M in assets across 2 plans covering 2,118 participants.

By assets, Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Pension Plan outranks 95% of the 116,472 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2024 plan year, and holds roughly 2.3x 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 Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Pension 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.