Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension Plan

Data updated 2026-08-25

$1.5B
Total assets Very large vs avg
11,455
Participants Very large workforce
99th
Percentile by assets National rank
$130,716
Avg per participant Near avg balance/head
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Official DOL plan name: Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension Plan · Sponsored by Wellstar Health System, Inc. · Georgia · Healthcare & Social Assistance

$1.5B in assets, 11,455 participants

Wellstar Health System, Inc.'s Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension Plan reported $1.5B in total assets and 11,455 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.

  • #16,766 in Healthcare & Social Assistance (16,916 peers)

Coverage in Georgia

Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension Plan covers 11,455 participants in Georgia, 10x the typical Georgia plan (state average ~1,096 per filing). Assets: $1.5B.

#16,766
in Healthcare & Social Assistance (16,916 peers)
+6.1%
assets growth YoY
15×
vs typical plan assets (national mean)

Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension Plan's outsized position by total assets

Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension Plan vs every filed plan by assets

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

$1,497,356,735 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

Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension 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. Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension Plan is a mega filing (11,455 participants), the rightmost band on the breakdown.

What changed between DOL Form 5500 filings

plan year 2023 → plan year 2024

  • Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension Plan reported participants rose from 3,333 in the plan year 2023 filing to 11,455 in the plan year 2024 filing.
  • Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension Plan reported net income rose from $73M in the plan year 2023 filing to $86M in the plan year 2024 filing.
  • Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension Plan end-of-year assets rose from $1.4B in the plan year 2023 filing to $1.5B in the plan year 2024 filing.

See the national 2023→2024 release diff →

Plan-year Form 5500 strip

Filing strip 581649541 · Wellstar Health System, Inc. PY 2024 · Defined Benefit (Pension)

Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension Plan · $1.5B · 11,455 · 99th

  • BOOK $1.5B
  • BOOK 11,455
  • BOOK 99th
  • BOOK Defined Benefit (Pension)
  • BOOK near Central Pennsylvania Teamsters Defined Benefit Plan
  • BOOK ind #16766

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 Healthcare & Social Assistance retirement plans → · Plans in Georgia →

Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension Plan in the asset neighbourhood

Medtronic Retirement Plan$1.5BXpo Pension Plan$1.5BWellstar Health System, Inc. Pension PlanWellstar Health System, Inc.…$1.5BCentral Pennsylvania Teamsters Defined Benefit PlanCentral Pennsylvania Teamste…$1.5BWeyerhaeuser Pension Plan$1.5B
End-of-year total assets ($B) among Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension Plan and nearest nationwide Defined Benefit (Pension) peers. Source: DOL Form 5500 plan year 2024.

Georgia filing particulars

Total Assets (Beginning of Year)$1.4B
Net Assets (End of Year)$1.5B
Net Income$86M
Employer EIN581649541
Plan Effective Date2015-07-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Wellstar Health System, Inc.)

Sponsor-wide plan assets over time

All Wellstar Health System, Inc. plans reported in each filing year

Latest sponsor-wide plan assets
$5.0B 64.20101051727607% vs 2022
2024 filing year
$2B$3B$4B$5B$6B 202220232024 $3.02B $4.95B ▲ +63.9%
Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 3 38,490 $3.0B
2023 3 36,943 $3.5B
2024 3 49,923 $5.0B

Nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) Plans in Georgia

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

Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension Plan vs. nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in Georgia, assets vs. participants Scatter plot of 6 data points. 050000100000150000200000 0510152025 Total assets ($B) Participants Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension Plan, Total assets ($B): 1.497356735 · Participants: 11455Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension PlanUPS Retirement Plan, Total assets ($B): 21.2364871 · Participants: 43465UPS Retirement PlanThe Southern Company Pension Plan, Total assets ($B): 15.319238036 · Participants: 25843The Southern Company Pension PlanUPS/Ibt Full-Time Employee Pension Plan, Total assets ($B): 12.219463258 · Participants: 69627UPS/Ibt Full-Time Employee Pension PlanUPS Pension Plan, Total assets ($B): 9.280234765 · Participants: 157587UPS Pension PlanDelta Retirement Plan, Total assets ($B): 7.253434311 · Participants: 15222Delta Retirement Plan
Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension Plan vs. nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in Georgia, assets vs. participants
Compare Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension Plan side-by-side with 3 peers →

Scale composition for Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension Plan

Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension Plan reports $1.5B in end-of-year assets across 11,455 participants (0.012% of the $12.3T held by all Form 5500 filers in the national rollup , and 0.012% of 93,925,755 covered participants) - about $130,716 per participant (95% of the national average assets-per-participant) . Net income for plan year 2024 was $86M.

This plan identity (EIN 581649541, plan #003) has 3 Form 5500 filings on file from 2022 to 2024 , with end-of-year assets moving from $635M to $1.5B (+135.9%) while covered participants moved from 3,665 to 11,455 . Single-year sparse filers cannot show that trail.

Plan year Participants EOY assets Filing
2022 3,665 $635M Open filing
2023 3,333 $1.4B Open filing
2024 · index core 11,455 $1.5B This page

The same sponsor also keeps 2 other index-core plans on PlainRetire:

Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension Plan's out-of-state Defined Benefit (Pension) peers by assets and headcount

Outside Georgia, the nearest Defined Benefit (Pension) by assets is Central Pennsylvania Teamsters Defined Benefit Plan in PA ($1.5B); by covered participants it is Caterpillar Inc. Retirement Income Plan in TX (11,498 participants). Same-state nearby plans are listed separately above.

Closest by plan assets

Nearest other-state filings by tot_assets_eoy ($1.5B here).

Similar participant headcount

Nearest other-state filings by covered participants (11,455 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 Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension Plan assets move in 2024? ▼
Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension Plan grew at a solid clip - up 6.1% during 2024, from $1.4B to $1.5B. Reported net income was $86M.
How have Wellstar Health System, Inc. plan assets changed over time? ▼
Across 3 plan years on file (2022-2024), Wellstar Health System, Inc.'s sponsor-wide assets grew 64.2%, from $3.0B to $5.0B.
Where does Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension Plan rank by assets among Form 5500 filers? ▼
Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension 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 Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension Plan? ▼
Among Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in other states, the closest by assets is Central Pennsylvania Teamsters Defined Benefit Plan in PA ($1.5B, 5,424 participants).
Which Defined Benefit (Pension) plans cover a similar participant headcount to Wellstar Health System, Inc. Pension Plan? ▼
Among Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in other states, the closest by covered participants is Caterpillar Inc. Retirement Income Plan in TX (11,498 participants, $9.2B 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 581649541.

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.