State retirement profile · Form 5500

Retirement Plans in Kansas

According to DOL Form 5500 filings (plan year 2024), employer-sponsored 401(k), pension, and other retirement plans headquartered in Kansas report the totals below.

Data updated 2026-08-25

1,174
Plans
$48.1B
Total assets
#37
By assets

$48.1B across 1,174 plans

According to DOL Form 5500 filings (plan year 2024), Kansas has 1,174 employer-sponsored retirement plans holding $48.1B in total assets for 422,735 participants, ranking 37th nationally by plan assets, with 77% structured as 401(k)s and an average of $41M per plan.

  • 37th nationally by plan assets
  • 77% 401(k) plans

The state in one line

Kansas hosts 1,174 employer-sponsored retirement plans holding $48.1B for 422,735 participants, the 37th-largest state by plan assets.

$48.1B
total plan assets
1,174
employer plans
$113,779
avg assets per participant
77%
of plans are 401(k)s
401(k) Plans
903
Participants
422,735

What the Form 5500 Data Shows for Kansas

Kansas: 1,174 employer-sponsored plans (903 401(k)), $48.1B aggregate assets, 422,735 participants. Average plan: $41M; largest is Koch Employees' Savings Plan at $4.3B. Leading sector by assets: Manufacturing (38%). These figures aggregate the 1,174 Form 5500 filings Kansas sponsors submitted for plan year 2024, counted by sponsor headquarters rather than participant residence; a plan administered in Kansas can cover workers across several states, and the methodology page details that HQ-vs-residence distinction. DOL Form 5500 methodology + HQ-vs-residence caveats →

Manufacturing leads Kansas plan assets (38%)

Among plans headquartered here, Manufacturing accounts for $18.1B across 226 filings, ahead of Professional & Technical Services at $6.9B. 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

Kansas hosts 91 ESOP filings

Employee Stock Ownership Plans here hold $2.2B. 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

Where Kansas sits in the Form 5500 corpus

Kansas sits mid-pack by plan assets (#37 of 56). Peer states with similar totals are the fairest comparison set; national leaders will dominate any unfiltered ranking.

DOL Form 5500 plan year 2024

Kansas's place in the national asset distribution

All states with reported Form 5500 plan assets · plan year 2024

$48,098,198,758 36th percentile higher than 36% of 56 states with reported plan assets

Kansas $0 $1,324,371,844,360 state retirement-plan assets, bucketed by value

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

Kansas's retirement-plan mix

1. 401(k)9032. ESOP913. Profit Sharing844. Other515. Defined Benefit (Pension)32
The five most common Form 5500 plan types among sponsors headquartered in Kansas. This count describes filings, not participants or assets.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, EBSA Form 5500 public disclosure dataset · plan year 2024.

Industry mix in Kansas

Top sectors by Form 5500 plan assets for sponsors headquartered here (plan year 2024).

Industry Plans Assets
Manufacturing 226 $18.1B
Professional & Technical Services 130 $6.9B
Construction 104 $5.8B
Finance & Insurance 89 $4.3B
Healthcare & Social Assistance 144 $3.6B

Largest Plans in Kansas

# Plan Name Type Participants Total Assets
1 Koch Employees' Savings Plan 401(k) 11,423 $4.3B
2 Performance Contracting Group, Inc. ESOP/401(k) Plan 401(k) 1,315 $3.6B
3 Black & Veatch Retirement Program 401(k) 7,438 $3.0B
4 Garmin International, Inc. Retirement Plan 401(k) 7,082 $2.2B
5 Koch Employees' Pension Plan Defined Benefit (Pension) 5,044 $1.4B
6 Spirit Aerosystems Holdings, Inc. Retirement & Savings Plan 401(k) 7,736 $1.2B
7 The Terracon 401(k) and ESOP Plan 401(k) 6,480 $1.0B
8 Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. Super Savings Plan 401(k) 6,773 $875M
9 Stormont-Vail Healthcare Employee 403(b) Plan Other 5,973 $634M
10 Dfa Dairy Brands Smartchoice Savings Plan 401(k) 7,222 $603M
11 Bombardier 401(k) Savings Plan 401(k) 2,318 $593M
12 Communityamerica Credit Union 401(k) Savings Plan 401(k) 1,116 $578M
13 Retirement Plan for Employees of Learjet Inc., Bombardier Aerospace Corporation and Affiliates Defined Benefit (Pension) 975 $498M
14 Murphy-Hoffman Company Employee Profit Sharing Plan 401(k) 4,427 $405M
15 Avi Systems, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan 401(k) 1,013 $399M
16 Security Benefit Associates Profit Sharing and Savings Plan 401(k) 1,439 $389M
17 Invista Pension Plan for Certain Grandfathered Employees Defined Benefit (Pension) 12 $363M
18 Morton Salt 401(k) Savings Plan 401(k) 1,839 $356M
19 Eversana 401(k) Plan 401(k) 3,405 $348M
20 Tax-Favored Savings Program 401(k) 1,756 $335M
21 Ima Financial Group, Inc. 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan and Trust 401(k) 2,336 $317M
22 Awg, Inc Restated 401(k) Plan 401(k) 2,892 $311M
23 Harcros Chemicals, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan ESOP 554 $303M
24 Netsmart Technologies, Inc. 401(k) Plan 401(k) 2,545 $284M
25 Non-Contributory Retirement Program for Certain Employees of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas, Inc. Defined Benefit (Pension) 475 $283M

Nearby States by Retirement Plan Footprint

States ranked adjacent to Kansas by total retirement plan assets.

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

Nationwide states with similar retirement plan scale

Two DOL Form 5500-derived peer sets for Kansas, each a different nationwide metric so the neighborhoods are not geographic containment (the asset-ranked nearby list above stays regional).

Similar plan count

Nearest other states by reported employer plan filings (1,174 here).

Louisiana 1,155 plans Iowa 1,246 plans Oklahoma 1,268 plans Utah 1,280 plans

Similar total assets

Nearest other states by aggregate plan assets ($48.1B here).

Delaware $52.7B Alabama $53.2B South Carolina $55.2B Nebraska $61.5B

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the largest retirement plan headquartered in Kansas? ▼
The largest Form 5500 filing by assets with a headquarters address in Kansas is Koch Employees' Savings Plan ($4.3B, 11,423 participants).
Which industry leads Kansas retirement plan assets? ▼
Manufacturing leads with $18.1B across 226 plans headquartered here (38% of state plan assets).
How does Kansas compare to other states for retirement plans? ▼
Kansas sits mid-pack by plan assets (#37 of 56). Peer states with similar totals are the fairest comparison set; national leaders will dominate any unfiltered ranking.

Next read for Kansas

Industry-mix reading

Ways to act on Kansas's numbers.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, EBSA Form 5500 public disclosure dataset. Shows the top 25 plans by total assets headquartered in Kansas, 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.

Data sourced from U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings (EBSA). See our methodology for details.