Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings Cash Balance Retirement Plan

Data updated 2026-05-15

$196M
Total assets
9,540
Participants
94th
Percentile by assets
$20,589
Avg per participant

Sponsored by Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings · North Carolina · Healthcare & Social Assistance

What the 2024 filing shows

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings Cash Balance Retirement Plan holds $196M for 9,540 participants - about $20,589 per participant, in the top 10% of all filed plans by assets, down 5.2% over the 2024 plan year.

$196M
total plan assets (2024 EOY)
9,540
covered participants
94th
percentile by assets (of 116,472 plans)
$20,589
avg assets per participant

The plan reported a net loss of $11M for the year, a single-year figure driven by markets and benefit payments, not a measure of plan health.

Industry
Healthcare & Social Assistance

Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

What the Filing Says About Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings Cash Balance Retirement Plan

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings Cash Balance Retirement Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, headquartered in North Carolina. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $196M in total end-of-year assets and covers 9,540 participants across the Healthcare & Social Assistance industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 133757370, and the plan has been effective since 1992-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets pulled back noticeably from $207M at the beginning of 2024 to $196M at year-end - down 5.2%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $196M, with reported net income of -$11M 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 Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $3.9B to $4.7B, a gain of 18.9%, while reported participants moved from 53,675 to 57,250 (+6.7%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $4.7B; the softest was 2022 at $3.9B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $3.9B in assets across 2 plans covering 53,675 participants; 2023 - $4.1B in assets across 2 plans covering 57,798 participants; 2024 - $4.7B in assets across 2 plans covering 57,250 participants.

By assets, Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings Cash Balance Retirement Plan outranks 94% of the 116,472 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2024 plan year, and holds roughly 2.0x 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 Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings Cash Balance 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)$207M
Total Assets (End of Year)$196M
Net Assets (End of Year)$196M
Net Income-$11M
Plan TypeDefined Benefit (Pension)
Employer EIN133757370
Plan Effective Date1992-01-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings)

Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 2 53,675 $3.9B
2023 2 57,798 $4.1B
2024 2 57,250 $4.7B

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings Cash Balance Retirement Plan?
As of the 2024 Form 5500 filing, Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings Cash Balance Retirement Plan holds $196M in total assets with 9,540 participants. It is sponsored by Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings.
What type of plan is Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings Cash Balance Retirement Plan?
Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings Cash Balance Retirement Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) plan. It has been effective since 1992-01-01. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 133757370.
Who sponsors the Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings Cash Balance Retirement Plan?
Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings Cash Balance Retirement Plan is sponsored by Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, located in North Carolina. The sponsor's EIN is 133757370 and the plan operates in the Healthcare & Social Assistance industry.
How did Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings Cash Balance Retirement Plan perform in 2024?
Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings Cash Balance Retirement Plan pulled back noticeably - down 5.2% during 2024, moving from $207M to $196M in total assets. Net income was -$11M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings Cash Balance Retirement Plan's numbers.

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 133757370.

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 2026-05-15.