Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024
Pacific Gas and Electric Company Retirement Plan
Data updated 2026-05-15
- $17.6B
- Total assets
- 27,500
- Participants
- 100th
- Percentile by assets
- $640,261
- Avg per participant
Sponsored by Pacific Gas and Electric Company · California · Utilities
What the 2024 filing shows
Pacific Gas and Electric Company Retirement Plan holds $17.6B for 27,500 participants - about $640,261 per participant, among the largest 1% of all filed plans, down 2.1% over the 2024 plan year.
- $17.6B
- total plan assets (2024 EOY)
- 27,500
- covered participants
- 100th
- percentile by assets (of 116,472 plans)
- $640,261
- avg assets per participant
The plan reported a net loss of $382M for the year, a single-year figure driven by markets and benefit payments, not a measure of plan health.
Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024
What the Filing Says About Pacific Gas and Electric Company Retirement Plan
Pacific Gas and Electric Company Retirement Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by Pacific Gas and Electric Company, headquartered in California. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $17.6B in total end-of-year assets and covers 27,500 participants across the Utilities industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 940742640, and the plan has been effective since 1937-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.
Year over year, total assets edged down modestly from $18.0B at the beginning of 2024 to $17.6B at year-end - down 2.1%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $17.5B, with reported net income of -$382M 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 Pacific Gas and Electric Company has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $17.1B to $17.6B, a gain of 3.2%, while reported participants moved from 25,709 to 27,500 (+7.0%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2023 at $39.4B; the softest was 2022 at $17.1B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $17.1B in assets across 1 plan covering 25,709 participants; 2023 - $39.4B in assets across 2 plans covering 48,561 participants; 2024 - $17.6B in assets across 1 plan covering 27,500 participants.
By assets, Pacific Gas and Electric Company Retirement Plan outranks nearly all the 116,472 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2024 plan year, and holds roughly 176x 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 Pacific Gas and Electric Company 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) | $18.0B |
|---|---|
| Total Assets (End of Year) | $17.6B |
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $17.5B |
| Net Income | -$382M |
| Plan Type | Defined Benefit (Pension) |
| Employer EIN | 940742640 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1937-01-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Pacific Gas and Electric Company)
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 25,709 | $17.1B |
| 2023 | 2 | 48,561 | $39.4B |
| 2024 | 1 | 27,500 | $17.6B |
Nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) Plans in California
Peer Defined Benefit (Pension) plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
- Kaiser Permanente Retirement Plan $34.5B · 135,057
- Retirement Plan for Physicians and Salaried Employees of the Permanente Medical Group, Inc. $11.4B · 18,983
- Disney Salaried Pension Plan D $10.4B · 9,984
- Kaiser Permanente Retirement Plan for Scpmg $8.4B · 50,341
- Sutter Health Retirement Plan $6.2B · 37,201
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What this filing means
Ways to act on Pacific Gas and Electric Company Retirement Plan's numbers.
- By total assets, Pacific Gas and Electric Company Retirement Plan ranks among the largest 1% of all filed plans. See the largest plans
- Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in California. Compare plans
- Pacific Gas and Electric Company's sponsor-wide assets have grown 3.2% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Utilities 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 940742640.
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 2026-05-15.