$17M across 1 plans
According to DOL Form 5500 filings (plan year 2024), Northern Mariana Islands has 1 employer-sponsored retirement plans holding $17M in total assets for 450 participants, ranking 55th nationally by plan assets, with 100% structured as 401(k)s and an average of $17M per plan.
- 55th nationally by plan assets
- 100% 401(k) plans
The state in one line
Northern Mariana Islands hosts 1 employer-sponsored retirement plans holding $17M for 450 participants, the 55th-largest state by plan assets.
- $17M
- total plan assets
- 1
- employer plans
- $38,419
- avg assets per participant
- 100%
- of plans are 401(k)s
What the Form 5500 Data Shows for Northern Mariana Islands
Northern Mariana Islands: 1 employer-sponsored plans
(1 401(k)), $17M aggregate assets,
450 participants.
Average plan: $17M; largest is Tan Holdings Corporation 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan at $17M.
Leading sector by assets: Manufacturing (100%). With only 1 plan reported, this average is not statistically robust, a single sponsor can shift it substantially (the national average plan holds $100M). These figures aggregate the 1 Form 5500 filings Northern Mariana Islands sponsors submitted for plan year 2024, counted by sponsor headquarters rather than participant residence; a plan administered in Northern Mariana Islands can cover workers across several states, and the methodology page details that HQ-vs-residence distinction.
DOL Form 5500 methodology + HQ-vs-residence caveats →
Tan Holdings Corporation 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan accounts for 100.0% of all Northern Mariana Islands retirement plan assets
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Northern Mariana Islands a distant remainder — means Northern Mariana Islands-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Tan Holdings Corporation sponsors the filing; drill into the plan page for schedules and audit detail. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of participants counted in this state total.
DOL Form 5500 plan year 2024
Manufacturing leads Northern Mariana Islands plan assets (100%)
Among plans headquartered here, Manufacturing accounts for $17M across 1 filings. 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
Where Northern Mariana Islands sits in the Form 5500 corpus
Northern Mariana Islands is a smaller Form 5500 host by plan assets (#55 of 56). A single large sponsor can move the state total; read the largest-plan share before treating the average as typical.
DOL Form 5500 plan year 2024
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, EBSA Form 5500 public disclosure dataset. Shows the top 25 plans by total assets headquartered in Northern Mariana Islands, 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.