State retirement profile · Form 5500
According to DOL Form 5500 filings (plan year 2024), employer-sponsored 401(k), pension, and other retirement plans headquartered in Georgia report the totals below.
Data updated 2026-08-25
$415.5B across 3,635 plans
According to DOL Form 5500 filings (plan year 2024), Georgia has 3,635 employer-sponsored retirement plans holding $415.5B in total assets for 3,985,079 participants, ranking 13th nationally by plan assets, with 75% structured as 401(k)s and an average of $114M per plan.
The state in one line
Georgia hosts 3,635 employer-sponsored retirement plans holding $415.5B for 3,985,079 participants, the 13th-largest state by plan assets.
Georgia: 3,635 employer-sponsored plans (2,721 401(k)), $415.5B aggregate assets, 3,985,079 participants. Average plan: $114M; largest is UPS Retirement Plan at $21.2B. Leading sector by assets: Transportation & Warehousing (26%). These figures aggregate the 3,635 Form 5500 filings Georgia sponsors submitted for plan year 2024, counted by sponsor headquarters rather than participant residence; a plan administered in Georgia can cover workers across several states, and the methodology page details that HQ-vs-residence distinction. DOL Form 5500 methodology + HQ-vs-residence caveats →
Among plans headquartered here, Transportation & Warehousing accounts for $109.0B across 124 filings, ahead of Manufacturing at $61.1B. Sector mix is a Form 5500-derived signal: it reflects where sponsors file from, not where every participant lives.
DOL Form 5500 plan year 2024
Employee Stock Ownership Plans here hold $4.4B. ESOP density is uneven across states; when the count clears a meaningful floor, the ESOP ranking and industry pages are the better drill-downs than a 401(k)-only read.
DOL Form 5500 plan year 2024
Georgia ranks in the upper half by plan assets (#13 of 56). Its totals are large enough for industry-mix and largest-plan concentration to matter more than the headline alone.
DOL Form 5500 plan year 2024
Georgia's place in the national asset distribution
All states with reported Form 5500 plan assets · plan year 2024
$415,454,156,255 Top 21% higher than 79% of 56 states with reported plan assets
Dashed line + filled bar = this entry, among states with reported plan assets.
Source U.S. Department of Labor, EBSA Form 5500 public disclosure dataset · plan year 2024
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, EBSA Form 5500 public disclosure dataset · plan year 2024.
Top sectors by Form 5500 plan assets for sponsors headquartered here (plan year 2024).
| Industry | Plans | Assets |
|---|---|---|
| Transportation & Warehousing | 124 | $109.0B |
| Manufacturing | 495 | $61.1B |
| Real Estate | 154 | $32.4B |
| Finance & Insurance | 193 | $31.1B |
| Healthcare & Social Assistance | 422 | $28.5B |
States ranked adjacent to Georgia by total retirement plan assets.
Two DOL Form 5500-derived peer sets for Georgia, each a different nationwide metric so the neighborhoods are not geographic containment (the asset-ranked nearby list above stays regional).
Nearest other states by reported employer plan filings (3,635 here).
Nearest other states by aggregate plan assets ($415.5B here).
Industry-mix reading
Ways to act on Georgia's numbers.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, EBSA Form 5500 public disclosure dataset. Shows the top 25 plans by total assets headquartered in Georgia, out of 130,145 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.