401(k) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024
Darling Ingredients Inc. 401(k) Plan
Data updated 2026-08-25
- $237M
- Total assets Near avg plan size
- 5,267
- Participants Above avg headcount
- 95th
- Percentile by assets National rank
- $44,952
- Avg per participant Low balance/head
Official DOL plan name: Darling Ingredients Inc. Salaried 401(k) Savings Plan · Sponsored by Darling Ingredients Inc. · Texas · Manufacturing
$237M in assets, 5,267 participants
Darling Ingredients Inc.'s Darling Ingredients Inc. Salaried 401(k) Savings Plan reported $237M in total assets and 5,267 participants in its 2024 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 95th 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.
- #16,389 in Manufacturing (17,777 peers)
Coverage in Texas
Darling Ingredients Inc. Salaried 401(k) Savings Plan covers 5,267 participants in Texas, 7.7x the typical Texas plan (state average ~688 per filing). Assets: $237M.
- #16,389
- in Manufacturing (17,777 peers)
- +5.4%
- assets growth YoY
- 2.4×
- vs typical plan assets (national mean)
Darling Ingredients Inc. Salaried 401(k) Savings Plan's outsized position by total assets
Darling Ingredients Inc. Salaried 401(k) Savings Plan vs every filed plan by assets
End-of-year total assets · plan year 2024 · DOL Form 5500
$236,761,041 Top 5% higher than 95% of 123,620 filed plans
Dashed line + filled bar = this entry, among filed plans.
Source U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings (EBSA) · plan year 2024
Darling Ingredients Inc. Salaried 401(k) Savings Plan's large-plan peer group by participant headcount
Plan-year 2024 Form 5500 filings with a reported participant count, partitioned by headcount band, not by assets. Darling Ingredients Inc. Salaried 401(k) Savings Plan lands in the large band (5,267 participants).
What changed between DOL Form 5500 filings
plan year 2023 → plan year 2024
- Darling Ingredients Inc. Salaried 401(k) Savings Plan reported participants rose from 1,852 in the plan year 2023 filing to 5,267 in the plan year 2024 filing.
- Darling Ingredients Inc. Salaried 401(k) Savings Plan reported net income fell from $27M in the plan year 2023 filing to $11M in the plan year 2024 filing.
- Darling Ingredients Inc. Salaried 401(k) Savings Plan end-of-year assets rose from $225M in the plan year 2023 filing to $237M in the plan year 2024 filing.
EBSA filing schedule strip
Filing strip 362495346 · Darling Ingredients Inc. PY 2024 · 401(k)
Darling Ingredients Inc. Salaried 401(k) Savings Plan · $237M · 5,267 · 95th
- IND $237M
- IND 5,267
- IND 95th
- IND 401(k)
- IND near Mueller Group, LLC Retirement Savings Plan No. 1
- IND ind #16389
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 Manufacturing retirement plans → · Plans in Texas →
Darling Ingredients Inc. Salaried 401(k) Savings Plan in the asset neighbourhood
Texas filing particulars
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $225M |
|---|---|
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $237M |
| Net Income | $11M |
| Employer EIN | 362495346 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1994-01-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Darling Ingredients Inc.)
Sponsor-wide plan assets over time
All Darling Ingredients Inc. plans reported in each filing year
- Latest sponsor-wide plan assets
- $475M 50.91375501073811% vs 2022
- 2024 filing year
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | 3,813 | $315M |
| 2023 | 5 | 5,924 | $463M |
| 2024 | 5 | 9,295 | $475M |
Nearby 401(k) Plans in Texas
Peer 401(k) plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
- AT&T Retirement Savings Plan $43.1B · 109,889
- Exxonmobil Savings Plan $23.7B · 21,990
- Chevron Employee Savings Investment Plan $20.4B · 21,505
- Caterpillar 401(k) Savings Plan $18.8B · 43,873
- Southwest Airlines Co. Retirement Savings Plan $17.0B · 67,820
Scale composition for Darling Ingredients Inc. Salaried 401(k) Savings Plan
Darling Ingredients Inc. Salaried 401(k) Savings Plan reports $237M in end-of-year assets across 5,267 participants (0.002% of the $12.3T held by all Form 5500 filers in the national rollup , and 0.006% of 93,925,755 covered participants) - about $44,952 per participant (33% of the national average assets-per-participant) . Net income for plan year 2024 was $11M.
This plan identity (EIN 362495346, plan #040) has 3 Form 5500 filings on file from 2022 to 2024 , with end-of-year assets moving from $148M to $237M (+60.1%) while covered participants moved from 1,060 to 5,267 . Single-year sparse filers cannot show that trail.
| Plan year | Participants | EOY assets | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1,060 | $148M | Open filing |
| 2023 | 1,852 | $225M | Open filing |
| 2024 · index core | 5,267 | $237M | This page |
The same sponsor also keeps 1 other index-core plan on PlainRetire:
- Darling Ingredients Inc. Hourly and Bargaining 401(k) Savings Plan (401(k), $126M, 3,779 participants)
Darling Ingredients Inc. Salaried 401(k) Savings Plan's out-of-state 401(k) peers by assets and headcount
Outside Texas, the nearest 401(k) by assets is Mueller Group, LLC Retirement Savings Plan No. 1 in GA ($237M); by covered participants it is Party City Holdings Inc. 401(k) Plan in NJ (5,268 participants). Same-state nearby plans are listed separately above.
Closest by plan assets
Nearest other-state filings by tot_assets_eoy ($237M here).
Similar participant headcount
Nearest other-state filings by covered participants (5,267 participants); asset peers above are excluded.
- Party City Holdings Inc. 401(k) Plan (NJ) 5,268 · 1 off
- Veralto Corporation & Subsidiaries Savings Plan (MA) 5,264 · 3 off
- Magellan Health, Inc. Retirement Savings Plan (MO) 5,275 · 8 off
- Sanmar, Lkwp, and Affiliates 401(k) Plan (WA) 5,275 · 8 off
DOL Form 5500 plan year 2024. Asset totals can differ widely at the same headcount; neither axis is a quality rating.