Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024
W. W. Norton and Company, Inc. Retirement Income Plan
Data updated 2026-05-15
- $13M
- Total assets
- 104
- Participants
- 62th
- Percentile by assets
- $129,529
- Avg per participant
Sponsored by W.W. Norton and Company, Inc. · New York · Information & Media
What the 2024 filing shows
W. W. Norton and Company, Inc. Retirement Income Plan holds $13M for 104 participants - about $129,529 per participant, above the median plan by assets, down 1.6% over the 2024 plan year.
- $13M
- total plan assets (2024 EOY)
- 104
- covered participants
- 62th
- percentile by assets (of 116,472 plans)
- $129,529
- avg assets per participant
The plan reported a net loss of $224K 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 W. W. Norton and Company, Inc. Retirement Income Plan
W. W. Norton and Company, Inc. Retirement Income Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., headquartered in New York. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $13M in total end-of-year assets and covers 104 participants across the Information & Media industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 135283680, and the plan has been effective since 1946-05-31. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.
Year over year, total assets edged down modestly from $14M at the beginning of 2024 to $13M at year-end - down 1.6%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $13M, with reported net income of -$224K 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 W.W. Norton and Company, Inc. has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $164M to $201M, a gain of 22.7%, while reported participants moved from 746 to 764 (+2.4%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $201M; the softest was 2022 at $164M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $164M in assets across 2 plans covering 746 participants; 2023 - $194M in assets across 2 plans covering 736 participants; 2024 - $201M in assets across 2 plans covering 764 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 W. W. Norton and Company, Inc. Retirement Income 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) | $14M |
|---|---|
| Total Assets (End of Year) | $13M |
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $13M |
| Net Income | -$224K |
| Plan Type | Defined Benefit (Pension) |
| Employer EIN | 135283680 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1946-05-31 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (W.W. Norton and Company, Inc.)
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | 746 | $164M |
| 2023 | 2 | 736 | $194M |
| 2024 | 2 | 764 | $201M |
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What this filing means
Ways to act on W. W. Norton and Company, Inc. Retirement Income Plan's numbers.
- By total assets, W. W. Norton and Company, Inc. Retirement Income Plan ranks above the median plan by assets. See the largest plans
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- W.W. Norton and Company, Inc.'s sponsor-wide assets have grown 22.7% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Information & Media 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 135283680.
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.