State retirement profile · Form 5500

Retirement Plans in Alaska

Employer-sponsored 401(k), pension, and other retirement plans headquartered in Alaska, drawn from DOL Form 5500 filings (plan year 2024).

Data updated 2026-05-15

265
Plans
$12.9B
Total assets
#47
By assets

The state in one line

Alaska hosts 265 employer-sponsored retirement plans holding $12.9B for 127,544 participants, the 47th-largest state by plan assets.

$12.9B
total plan assets
265
employer plans
$100,981
avg assets per participant
76%
of plans are 401(k)s
Total Plans
265
401(k) Plans
201
Participants
127,544
Total Assets
$12.9B

What the Form 5500 Data Shows for Alaska

Alaska: 265 employer-sponsored plans (201 401(k)), $12.9B aggregate assets, 127,544 participants. Average plan: $49M; largest is Alaska Electrical Pension Plan at $2.1B. DOL Form 5500 methodology + HQ-vs-residence caveats →

A state total like this counts every plan whose sponsor lists a headquarters address in the state on its Form 5500 filing, so the figure reflects where employers are based rather than where their workers live or where the money is ultimately invested. A handful of very large sponsors, a national retailer, a bank, a multi-employer union fund, can dominate a single state's asset total, which is why the average plan size and the largest-plan name matter as much as the headline number. Smaller plans, those with fewer than one hundred participants, file a simplified schedule and are exempt from independent audit, so part of any state total rests on sponsor attestation rather than auditor confirmation. Treat these aggregates as a structural picture of the state's private retirement economy, not as a measure of any single worker's benefit or account.

Largest Plans in Alaska

# Plan Name Type Participants Total Assets
1 Alaska Electrical Pension Plan Defined Benefit (Pension) 3,898 $2.1B
2 Arctic Slope Regional Corporation and Subsidiaries Employees Retirement Plan 401(k) 15,504 $1.5B
3 Gainwell Technologies 401(k) Plan 401(k) 10,917 $691M
4 Cook Inlet Region 401(k) Retirement Plan 401(k) 5,189 $589M
5 Bristol Bay Native Corporation 401(k) Savings Plan 401(k) 5,230 $480M
6 Chenega Corporation 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan and Trust 401(k) 7,277 $451M
7 Gci 401(k) Plan 401(k) 1,836 $443M
8 Alyeska Pipeline Service Company Savings and Investment Plan for Operating Company Employees 401(k) 730 $405M
9 Chugach 401(k) Plan 401(k) 2,574 $256M
10 Alaska Electrical Retirement Savings Plan Money Purchase 2,528 $246M
11 Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Retirement Savings Plan Profit Sharing 3,951 $227M
12 Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation Employees' Retirement Plan 401(k) 3,063 $212M
13 Foundation Health Partners 401(k) Plan 401(k) 1,870 $212M
14 Nana Regional Corporation, Inc. Compensation Deferral Plan 401(k) 2,806 $199M
15 Calista 401(k) Retirement Plan 401(k) 2,643 $184M
16 Global Defined Benefit Retirement Plan Defined Benefit (Pension) 130 $182M
17 Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Retirement Plan 401(k) 2,903 $164M
18 Alyeska Pipeline Service Company Pension Plan for Operating Company Employees Defined Benefit (Pension) 668 $160M
19 Doyon 401(k) Savings and Retirement Plan 401(k) 811 $156M
20 Global 401(k) Retirement Plan 401(k) 1,966 $150M
21 Dowl LLC Retirement Savings and Investment Plan 401(k) 537 $134M
22 Koniag Retirement Plan 401(k) 2,420 $130M
23 First National Bank Alaska Profit Sharing & 401(k) Plan 401(k) 620 $120M
24 Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (Searhc) 401(k) Plan 401(k) 1,018 $114M
25 Central Peninsula Hospital Retirement Plan Profit Sharing 1,103 $113M

Nearby States by Retirement Plan Footprint

States ranked adjacent to Alaska by total retirement plan assets.

Compare Alaska side-by-side with 3 peer states →

Frequently Asked Questions

How many retirement plans are in Alaska? ▼
Alaska has 265 employer-sponsored retirement plans as reported in 2024 DOL Form 5500 filings, including 201 401(k) plans.
What are the total retirement plan assets in Alaska? ▼
Retirement plans in Alaska hold $12.9B in total assets, covering 127,544 participants. The average plan holds $49M in assets.
What is the largest retirement plan in Alaska? ▼
The largest retirement plan in Alaska is Alaska Electrical Pension Plan with $2.1B in total assets and 3,898 participants.
How does Alaska compare to other states for retirement plans? ▼
You can compare Alaska's retirement plan statistics against all 50 states on the States page. Rankings are based on total assets, plan count, and participant coverage from DOL Form 5500 data.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, EBSA Form 5500 public disclosure dataset. Shows the top 25 plans by total assets headquartered in Alaska, out of 122,942 ERISA-covered plans nationally. Plan year 2024.

Source: DOL EFAST2 filing system (efast.dol.gov) - state is the plan sponsor's headquarters state as recorded on the Form 5500 filing.

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.

Why Form 5500 Data Matters for Retirement Planning

Form 5500 is the annual return that virtually every private-sector retirement plan in the United States files with the Department of Labor. The filing covers funding, participant counts, plan investments, fees, service providers, and corrective contributions. Because the data is collected for regulatory oversight rather than marketing, it is one of the most consistent windows into the retirement economy: the same questions are asked of plans across all industries and all states, year after year. That consistency makes it possible to compare plans, sponsors, and markets on equal footing, a kind of comparability that voluntary survey data and vendor brochures cannot provide.

PlainRetire reorganizes the Form 5500 universe so a participant, employer, or analyst can ask everyday questions of the dataset without reading thousands of pages of agency documentation. Browsing by state surfaces concentration patterns: where pension assets sit, which states host the largest 401(k) sponsors, where retirement coverage trails the national average. Browsing by industry reveals the structural difference between sectors that historically relied on defined-benefit pensions and sectors that adopted defined-contribution plans early. Browsing by plan size highlights both the largest sponsors, typically Fortune 500 employers and multi-employer Taft–Hartley funds, and the long tail of small plans that collectively cover millions of workers.

What This Hub Page Aggregates

Each hub page on PlainRetire is a navigable index into the underlying database. The page shows summary counts, the most recent Form 5500 vintage, and direct links to individual plan detail pages. Detail pages carry the canonical filings, schedules where applicable, and audit trail back to the DOL's EFAST2 disclosure portal. Where the underlying dataset supports it, hub pages also expose key aggregates: total participant counts, aggregate assets, plan-type breakdowns (401(k), pension, profit-sharing, ESOP), and changes over the most recent reporting period.

Plan data is updated as DOL releases new annual Form 5500 datasets. Filings have a roughly seven-month lag from plan year end, so the most recent vintage typically reflects the previous full calendar year. This lag is inherent to the disclosure regime, plans are given time to gather audit reports and service-provider statements, and PlainRetire reflects the timing transparently rather than backfilling estimates.

Reading the Data With Appropriate Caveats

Aggregate numbers are useful for trend-spotting and structural comparison; they are less useful for decisions about a specific plan. The participant count for a state, for instance, includes both very large plans (which dominate the total) and very small plans (which influence median but not mean). When evaluating a specific employer's plan, drill into the plan detail page and consider plan-type, asset-mix, fee structure, and audit history, these details are flattened in any hub-level aggregate. Where regulatory updates change the categorization of a plan, PlainRetire preserves the historical filing alongside the most recent one so longitudinal analyses remain valid.