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 Louisiana report the totals below.
Data updated 2026-08-25
$59.0B across 1,155 plans
According to DOL Form 5500 filings (plan year 2024), Louisiana has 1,155 employer-sponsored retirement plans holding $59.0B in total assets for 571,692 participants, ranking 32nd nationally by plan assets, with 80% structured as 401(k)s and an average of $51M per plan.
The state in one line
Louisiana hosts 1,155 employer-sponsored retirement plans holding $59.0B for 571,692 participants, the 32nd-largest state by plan assets.
Louisiana: 1,155 employer-sponsored plans (922 401(k)), $59.0B aggregate assets, 571,692 participants. Average plan: $51M; largest is Lumen 401(k) Savings Plan at $7.3B. Leading sector by assets: Information & Media (20%). These figures aggregate the 1,155 Form 5500 filings Louisiana sponsors submitted for plan year 2024, counted by sponsor headquarters rather than participant residence; a plan administered in Louisiana 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, Information & Media accounts for $11.7B across 8 filings, ahead of Healthcare & Social Assistance at $11.0B. 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 $2.4B. 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
Louisiana sits mid-pack by plan assets (#32 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
Louisiana's place in the national asset distribution
All states with reported Form 5500 plan assets · plan year 2024
$58,955,598,840 45th percentile higher than 45% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Information & Media | 8 | $11.7B |
| Healthcare & Social Assistance | 163 | $11.0B |
| Utilities | 25 | $10.2B |
| Professional & Technical Services | 183 | $5.5B |
| Manufacturing | 100 | $3.8B |
States ranked adjacent to Louisiana by total retirement plan assets.
Two DOL Form 5500-derived peer sets for Louisiana, 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 (1,155 here).
Nearest other states by aggregate plan assets ($59.0B here).
Industry-mix reading
Ways to act on Louisiana's numbers.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, EBSA Form 5500 public disclosure dataset. Shows the top 25 plans by total assets headquartered in Louisiana, 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.