Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

Harley-Davidson Retirement Plan

Data updated 2026-07-24

$1.9B
Total assets
1,414
Participants
99th
Percentile by assets
$1.3M
Avg per participant

Sponsored by Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Inc · Wisconsin · Manufacturing

Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Inc's Harley-Davidson Retirement Plan reported $1.9B in total assets and 1,414 participants in its 2024 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 99th 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.

What the 2024 filing shows

Harley-Davidson Retirement Plan holds $1.9B for 1,414 participants - about $1.3M per participant, among the largest 1% of all filed plans, down 3.2% over the 2024 plan year.

$1.9B
total plan assets (2024 EOY)
1,414
covered participants
99th
percentile by assets (of 116,472 plans)
$1.3M
avg assets per participant

The plan reported a net loss of $62M 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 Harley-Davidson Retirement Plan

Harley-Davidson Retirement Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Inc, headquartered in Wisconsin. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $1.9B in total end-of-year assets and covers 1,414 participants across the Manufacturing industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 391972791, and the plan has been effective since 1981-06-16. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets edged down modestly from $1.9B at the beginning of 2024 to $1.9B at year-end - down 3.2%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $1.8B, with reported net income of -$62M 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 Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Inc has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $1.8B to $3.1B, a gain of 69.7%, while reported participants moved from 1,744 to 6,642 (+280.8%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $3.1B; the softest was 2022 at $1.8B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $1.8B in assets across 1 plan covering 1,744 participants; 2023 - $1.9B in assets across 1 plan covering 1,560 participants; 2024 - $3.1B in assets across 4 plans covering 6,642 participants.

By assets, Harley-Davidson Retirement Plan outranks 99% of the 116,472 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2024 plan year, and holds roughly 19x 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 Harley-Davidson Retirement 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)$1.9B
Total Assets (End of Year)$1.9B
Net Assets (End of Year)$1.8B
Net Income-$62M
Plan TypeDefined Benefit (Pension)
Employer EIN391972791
Plan Effective Date1981-06-16
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Inc)

$1.5B$2B$2.5B$3B$3.5B 202220232024 $1.83B $3.1B ▲ +69.4%
Total plan assets by year, all Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Inc 401(k) plans on file
Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 1 1,744 $1.8B
2023 1 1,560 $1.9B
2024 4 6,642 $3.1B

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the Harley-Davidson Retirement Plan?
As of the 2024 Form 5500 filing, Harley-Davidson Retirement Plan holds $1.9B in total assets with 1,414 participants. It is sponsored by Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Inc.
What type of plan is Harley-Davidson Retirement Plan?
Harley-Davidson Retirement Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) plan. It has been effective since 1981-06-16. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 391972791.
Who sponsors the Harley-Davidson Retirement Plan?
Harley-Davidson Retirement Plan is sponsored by Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Inc, located in Wisconsin. The sponsor's EIN is 391972791 and the plan operates in the Manufacturing industry.
How did Harley-Davidson Retirement Plan perform in 2024?
Harley-Davidson Retirement Plan edged down modestly - down 3.2% during 2024, moving from $1.9B to $1.9B in total assets. Net income was -$62M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on Harley-Davidson Retirement Plan's numbers.

  • By total assets, Harley-Davidson Retirement Plan ranks among the largest 1% of all filed plans. See the largest plans
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  • Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Inc's sponsor-wide assets have grown 69.7% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Manufacturing 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 391972791.

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 2026-07-24.