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 New Hampshire report the totals below.
Data updated 2026-08-25
$25.5B across 708 plans
According to DOL Form 5500 filings (plan year 2024), New Hampshire has 708 employer-sponsored retirement plans holding $25.5B in total assets for 213,256 participants, ranking 43rd nationally by plan assets, with 75% structured as 401(k)s and an average of $36M per plan.
The state in one line
New Hampshire hosts 708 employer-sponsored retirement plans holding $25.5B for 213,256 participants, the 43rd-largest state by plan assets.
New Hampshire: 708 employer-sponsored plans (533 401(k)), $25.5B aggregate assets, 213,256 participants. Average plan: $36M; largest is Dartmouth Health 403(b) Plan at $1.7B. Leading sector by assets: Healthcare & Social Assistance (28%). These figures aggregate the 708 Form 5500 filings New Hampshire sponsors submitted for plan year 2024, counted by sponsor headquarters rather than participant residence; a plan administered in New Hampshire 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, Healthcare & Social Assistance accounts for $7.2B across 96 filings, ahead of Manufacturing at $6.0B. 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 $1.4B. 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
New Hampshire is a smaller Form 5500 host by plan assets (#43 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
New Hampshire's place in the national asset distribution
All states with reported Form 5500 plan assets · plan year 2024
$25,529,457,568 25th percentile higher than 25% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Social Assistance | 96 | $7.2B |
| Manufacturing | 124 | $6.0B |
| Educational Services | 39 | $3.7B |
| Professional & Technical Services | 104 | $2.1B |
| Finance & Insurance | 48 | $1.3B |
States ranked adjacent to New Hampshire by total retirement plan assets.
Two DOL Form 5500-derived peer sets for New Hampshire, 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 (708 here).
Nearest other states by aggregate plan assets ($25.5B here).
Industry-mix reading
Ways to act on New Hampshire's numbers.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, EBSA Form 5500 public disclosure dataset. Shows the top 25 plans by total assets headquartered in New Hampshire, 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.