Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

Ernst & Young U.S. LLP Pension Plan

Data updated 2026-08-25

$2.4B
Total assets Very large vs avg
48,793
Participants Very large workforce
99th
Percentile by assets National rank
$49,296
Avg per participant Low balance/head
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Official DOL plan name: Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan · Sponsored by Ernst & Young U.S. LLP · New Jersey · Professional & Technical Services

$2.4B in assets, 48,793 participants

Ernst & Young U.S. LLP's Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan reported $2.4B in total assets and 48,793 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.

  • #20,097 in Professional & Technical Services (20,173 peers)

Coverage in New Jersey

Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan covers 48,793 participants in New Jersey, 58x the typical New Jersey plan (state average ~844 per filing). Assets: $2.4B.

#20,097
in Professional & Technical Services (20,173 peers)
+3.4%
assets growth YoY
24×
vs typical plan assets (national mean)

Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan's outsized position by total assets

Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan vs every filed plan by assets

End-of-year total assets · plan year 2024 · DOL Form 5500

$2,405,278,762 Top 1% higher than 99% of 123,620 filed plans

This plan $0 $2,050,000,000 every filed plan with reported assets, bucketed by value

Dashed line + filled bar = this entry, among filed plans.

Source U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings (EBSA) · plan year 2024

Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan's mega-plan peer group by participant headcount

Plan-year 2024 Form 5500 filings with a reported participant count, partitioned by headcount band, not by assets. Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan is a mega filing (48,793 participants), the rightmost band on the breakdown.

What changed between DOL Form 5500 filings

plan year 2023 → plan year 2024

  • Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan reported net income fell from $285M in the plan year 2023 filing to $227M in the plan year 2024 filing.
  • Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan reported participants rose from 45,954 in the plan year 2023 filing to 48,793 in the plan year 2024 filing.
  • Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan end-of-year assets rose from $2.3B in the plan year 2023 filing to $2.4B in the plan year 2024 filing.

See the national 2023→2024 release diff →

EBSA filing schedule strip

Filing strip 346565596 · Ernst & Young U.S. LLP PY 2024 · Defined Benefit (Pension)

Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan · $2.4B · 48,793 · 99th

  • RANK $2.4B
  • PHOTO 48,793
  • IND 99th
  • EOY Defined Benefit (Pension)
  • 5500 near Pension Plan for Employees at Ornl
  • ASSETS ind #20097

Stamps derive from this plan's Form 5500 line items (assets, participants, type, EIN, cohort placement) - not a quality rating of the sponsor. Read with Professional & Technical Services retirement plans → · Plans in New Jersey →

Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan in the asset neighbourhood

Equity-League Pension Trust FundEquity-League Pension Trust …$2.4BErnst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement PlanErnst & Young Defined Benefi…$2.4BFrontier Communications Pension PlanFrontier Communications Pens…$2.4BPension Plan for Employees at OrnlPension Plan for Employees a…$2.4BThe Hearst Corporation Retirement PlanThe Hearst Corporation Retir…$2.4B
End-of-year total assets ($B) among Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan and nearest nationwide Defined Benefit (Pension) peers. Source: DOL Form 5500 plan year 2024.

New Jersey filing particulars

Total Assets (Beginning of Year)$2.3B
Net Assets (End of Year)$2.4B
Net Income$227M
Employer EIN346565596
Plan Effective Date1990-01-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Ernst & Young U.S. LLP)

Sponsor-wide plan assets over time

All Ernst & Young U.S. LLP plans reported in each filing year

Latest sponsor-wide plan assets
$28.5B 25.44561612724755% vs 2022
2024 filing year
$22B$24B$26B$28B$30B 202220232024 $22.7B $28.5B ▲ +25.5%
Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 5 100,421 $22.7B
2023 5 110,953 $25.5B
2024 5 111,083 $28.5B

Nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) Plans in New Jersey

Peer Defined Benefit (Pension) plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.

Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan vs. nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in New Jersey, assets vs. participants Scatter plot of 6 data points. 020000400006000080000100000 0510152025 Total assets ($B) Participants Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan, Total assets ($B): 2.405278762 · Participants: 48793Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement PlanRetirement Plan of Johnson and Johnson, Total assets ($B): 21.095569114 · Participants: 37882Retirement Plan of Johnson and JohnsonJPMorgan Chase Retirement Plan, Total assets ($B): 16.066557714 · Participants: 83812JPMorgan Chase Retirement PlanNokia Retirement Income Plan, Total assets ($B): 12.855309 · Participants: 7280Nokia Retirement Income PlanThe Prudential Merged Retirement Plan, Total assets ($B): 12.025028912 · Participants: 16233The Prudential Merged Retirement PlanMerck US Pension Plan, Total assets ($B): 10.090083286 · Participants: 26843Merck US Pension Plan
Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan vs. nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in New Jersey, assets vs. participants
Compare Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan side-by-side with 3 peers →

Scale composition for Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan

Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan reports $2.4B in end-of-year assets across 48,793 participants (0.020% of the $12.3T held by all Form 5500 filers in the national rollup , and 0.052% of 93,925,755 covered participants) - about $49,296 per participant (36% of the national average assets-per-participant) . Net income for plan year 2024 was $227M.

This plan identity (EIN 346565596, plan #111) has 3 Form 5500 filings on file from 2022 to 2024 , with end-of-year assets moving from $2.1B to $2.4B (+12.0%) while covered participants moved from 41,604 to 48,793 . Single-year sparse filers cannot show that trail.

Plan year Participants EOY assets Filing
2022 41,604 $2.1B Open filing
2023 45,954 $2.3B Open filing
2024 · index core 48,793 $2.4B This page

The same sponsor also keeps 3 other index-core plans on PlainRetire:

Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan's out-of-state Defined Benefit (Pension) peers by assets and headcount

Outside New Jersey, the nearest Defined Benefit (Pension) by assets is Pension Plan for Employees at Ornl in TN ($2.4B); by covered participants it is Western States Carpenters Pension Plan in CA (48,582 participants). Same-state nearby plans are listed separately above.

Closest by plan assets

Nearest other-state filings by tot_assets_eoy ($2.4B here).

Similar participant headcount

Nearest other-state filings by covered participants (48,793 participants); asset peers above are excluded.

DOL Form 5500 plan year 2024. Asset totals can differ widely at the same headcount; neither axis is a quality rating.

Frequently Asked Questions

How did Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan assets move in 2024? ▼
Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan edged up modestly - up 3.4% during 2024, from $2.3B to $2.4B. Reported net income was $227M.
How have Ernst & Young U.S. LLP plan assets changed over time? ▼
Across 3 plan years on file (2022-2024), Ernst & Young U.S. LLP's sponsor-wide assets grew 25.4%, from $22.7B to $28.5B.
Where does Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan rank by assets among Form 5500 filers? ▼
Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan ranks in the 99th percentile by end-of-year assets among 123,622 plans that reported assets for plan year 2024 (among the largest 1% of all filed plans).
Which Defined Benefit (Pension) plans are similar in size to Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan? ▼
Among Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in other states, the closest by assets is Pension Plan for Employees at Ornl in TN ($2.4B, 6,357 participants).
Which Defined Benefit (Pension) plans cover a similar participant headcount to Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan? ▼
Among Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in other states, the closest by covered participants is Western States Carpenters Pension Plan in CA (48,582 participants, $11.3B in assets).

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 346565596.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings (EBSA). See our methodology for details.