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FMC CORP 401(k): Fidelity, match 4% max

FMC Corporation Savings and Investment Plan · FMC · CIK 37785

Fidelity Investments is the recordkeeper named on the Form 5500 filed for this plan, the company that keeps the account records. Where to log in, and what the filing says.

Matched to this employer by sponsor name, not by an identifier stated in the filing.

Maximum employer match, as a share of pay

4%

FMC CORP matches 80% of the first 5% of pay.

From the Form 11-K filed June 24, 2026 ↗, covering the plan year ended December 31, 2025. Page data last updated July 28, 2026, when the Form 5500 bulk data was last refreshed. Why filings lag

On this page: what the employer actually paid in · the formula, word for word · when the money becomes yours · who can join · who holds your account · what the plan reports to the DOL · how it compares · what to do next

What FMC puts in, and what the plan costs

What FMC put into the plan, per active participant

$13,451

FMC CORP put $13,451 into this plan for each of its 1,084 active participants in plan year 2024. This is the whole employer side of the plan: matching money, profit sharing, non-elective and safe-harbor contributions, and reallocated forfeitures. The Form 5500 does not separate them, so this is what the employer put in and not the match.

0 · least per person100 · most per person

FMC put in more per active participant than 92% of plans with 1,000–4,999 participants in pharmaceuticals and chemicals. The middle plan in that group of 156 reported $5,739. Pharmaceuticals and chemicals comes from business code 325100, which FMC entered on its own Form 5500. Sponsors pick that code themselves, so a code that does not describe what the employer does ranks the plan against the wrong companies.

Matched to this employer by sponsor name, not by an identifier stated in the filing. This record could cover another plan of the same employer.

What this figure cannot separate: how much FMC pays, and how much it puts in

This is dollars, not a rate. A Form 5500 carries no payroll, so the figure reflects both how much the employer puts in and how much the employer pays: two plans running the same formula report different amounts when one pays better. Crossing the peer group with industry holds most of that difference still, and none of it disappears.

This is one plan year, not an average. A true-up, a plan merger or a one-off contribution moves a single year on its own.

Source: DOL Form 5500 for the plan year ended December 31, 2024, EIN 940479804, plan 061 · DOL EFAST2 ↗

The $13,451 above is the Form 5500 figure for plan year 2024, and it counts every employer dollar on one line. FMC CORP also files a Form 11-K, which states the match formula for plan year 2025: the card below reads $1,980 a year at a $49,500 salary, and the same filing states employer contributions made outside the match. That second figure is what the formula pays one worker on that salary, and not an amount either filing reports. The two figures cover different plan years and measure different things, so neither one is the other one corrected.

What FMC puts in

$1,980

a year, at a $49,500 salary.

The match paragraph, word for word
“For eligible employees participating in the Plan, the Company makes matching contributions of 80% of the portion of those contributions up to 5% of the employee's compensation (Basic Contribution). The Company matching contributions are paid in the form of cash and are allocated to participant accounts based upon the participant's investment elections.”

What you contribute to collect all of it

Contribute at least 5% of your pay to collect the full match.

That is $2,475 a year at a $49,500 salary, and it scales with your own.

Vesting score

100 out of 100

How fast the employer’s money becomes yours. Higher than 48% of the 369 schedules we have scored.

It measures vesting speed and nothing else. It says nothing about the size of the match, what the plan charges, or the funds inside it.

Vesting scheduleImmediate

Share of the employer's money that is the worker's at hire and at each of the first 6 anniversaries: 100%, 100%, 100%, 100%, 100%, 100%, 100%. The score is the average of those 7 readings.

Vesting, word for word
“All matching contributions, core contributions, and any related earnings are immediately vested for active employees.”

The wait before the match starts and the year-end true-up appear above when the filing states them. Neither is part of the score, and a filing that is silent on one of them is not a plan without it.

The formula, the six-year window and a worked example

What the plan costs, against plans of its size

51st percentile

$86.60 per participant in plan-paid administrative cost, more expensive than 51% of plans with 1,000–4,999 participants.

What is FMC's 401(k) match formula?

FMC's 401(k) employer match tops out at 4% of pay. One rate up to one limit is the commonest of the four shapes a match formula takes.

Match formula80% of the first 5% of pay
Maximum employer match4% of compensation
Paid in company stockNo, paid in cash or per your investment elections
Other employer contribution5% annual employer core contribution of eligible compensation for newly hired/rehired salaried and nonunion hourly employees since July 1, 2007 (and eligible Middleport union employees since February 1, 2013), contributed after the end of each plan year; approximately $8.3 million in each of 2025 and 2024

At a $60,000 salary, contributing 5% ($3,000) earns the full employer match of $2,400 for the year.

What the filing says, word for word
“For eligible employees participating in the Plan, the Company makes matching contributions of 80% of the portion of those contributions up to 5% of the employee's compensation (Basic Contribution). The Company matching contributions are paid in the form of cash and are allocated to participant accounts based upon the participant's investment elections.”

Source: Form 11-K filed June 24, 2026, SEC EDGAR, corroborated by the filing's inline-XBRL facts · SEC ↗

What is FMC's 401(k) vesting schedule?

FMC vests the employer match immediately: 100% is yours as soon as it is paid in. Nothing is forfeited when you leave, which is not true of the two schedules that vest over time.

Employer match vestingImmediate: employer match is 100% vested when contributed
Your own contributionsNot disclosed in the filing
Other employer contributionsAll matching contributions, core contributions, and any related earnings are immediately vested for active employees.
Vesting, word for word
“All matching contributions, core contributions, and any related earnings are immediately vested for active employees.”

Source: Form 11-K filed June 24, 2026, SEC EDGAR · SEC ↗

Who can join FMC's 401(k), and is enrollment automatic?

FMC enrolls new hires automatically at 5% of pay.

Plan entrySuch employees are eligible to participate in the Plan immediately upon commencement of their employment with the Company.
Excluded groupsother than employees who generally reside or work outside of the United States
Automatic enrollmentYes: default deferral 5% of pay
Eligibility, word for word
“Such employees are eligible to participate in the Plan immediately upon commencement of their employment with the Company.”
Automatic enrollment, word for word
“Employees will be automatically enrolled at a contribution rate of 5% of pre-tax eligible pay. Employees who do not want to be automatically enrolled may opt out by electing a 0% contribution rate.”

Source: Form 11-K filed June 24, 2026, SEC EDGAR · SEC ↗

Who holds your account

Schedule C of the Form 5500 filed for plan year 2024 reports Fidelity Investments, filed as “FIDELITY INVESTMENTS INSTITUTIONAL”. That is the company paid to keep the account records: what is in an account, what went into it, and usually the site a participant signs in to. The trustee that holds the plan’s assets can be a different company, and this filing does not name it.

Matched to this employer by sponsor name, not by an identifier stated in the filing. This record could cover another plan of the same employer.

10,593 plans on file name Fidelity Investments as their recordkeeper. Of those, the 10,022 with a computable fee have a median plan-paid cost of $97.71 per participant.

Participants log in at Fidelity NetBenefits ↗. 401(k) Monitor is not affiliated with Fidelity Investments or with any other recordkeeper, and takes nothing for this link. It is here because that is where the account is.

Recordkeeper from Schedule C, Part 1, Item 2 of Form 5500 filing 20250614063206NAL0016234291001.
RecordkeeperFidelity Investments
Recordkeeper EIN042647786

What does the FMC plan report on Form 5500?

The FMC plan reported $633.2M in assets and 2,608 participants for plan year 2024.

Matched to this employer by sponsor name, not by an identifier stated in the filing. This record could cover another plan of the same employer.

DOL Form 5500 filing for plan year 2024, EIN 940479804, plan 061.
Plan named in the DOL recordFmc Corporation Savings And Investment Plan
Total plan assets$633,222,054
Participants2,608
Plan-paid admin cost per participant$86.60

How that cost compares

This plan pays $86.60 per participant. The median across plans in pharmaceuticals and chemicals is $128.47, from the 870 of 942 whose Form 5500 yields a per-participant cost.

Read from the Form 5500 filing of Fmc Corporation Savings And Investment Plan, which has no page of its own here.

How does FMC's 401(k) match compare?

FMC CORP's maximum 401(k) match of 4% of pay compares with a median of 4% across the 269 companies in our data with a computable formula.

Employers worth reading next

Of the six employers below, three file in pharmaceuticals and chemicals, two report the same recordkeeper and one vests on the same schedule.

Clorox

Maximum match 4% of pay. Also in pharmaceuticals and chemicals.

RPM INTERNATIONAL INC/DE/

Maximum match 4% of pay. Also in pharmaceuticals and chemicals.

QUAKER CHEMICAL

Maximum match 3% of pay. Also in pharmaceuticals and chemicals.

DONALDSON

Maximum match 4% of pay. Same recordkeeper, Fidelity Investments.

GE Aerospace

Maximum match 4% of pay. Same recordkeeper, Fidelity Investments.

First US Bancshares

Maximum match 4% of pay. Vests immediately too, like FMC.

Compare FMC CORP with any company, side by side

What can you do next?

Questions this filing answers

What is FMC CORP's 401(k) match?

Fmc Corp matches 80% of employee contributions up to 5% of eligible pay (plan year ended December 31, 2025).

When does the FMC CORP 401(k) match vest?

Immediate: employer match is 100% vested when contributed.

Does FMC CORP's 401(k) plan have automatic enrollment?

Yes: default deferral 5% of pay.

Who is the recordkeeper for FMC CORP's 401(k)?

Fidelity Investments is named as the recordkeeper on the Form 5500 filed for Fmc Corporation Savings And Investment Plan for plan year 2024. That is the company paid to keep the account records: what is in an account, what went into it, and usually the site a participant signs in to. Matched to this employer by sponsor name, not by an identifier stated in the filing. This record could cover another plan of the same employer.

Source

The match formula, the vesting schedule and the enrollment rules on this page were read from one document: the Form 11-K annual report that FMC CORP filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for the plan year ended December 31, 2025. Each of those fields carries the filing sentence it was read from, expandable where the field appears. Nothing on this page was supplied by the employer to this site.

The plan assets, the participant counts, the plan-paid fees and the recordkeeper come from a different document, the plan’s DOL Form 5500 annual return, and the section that reports them links it. Comparisons with other employers are computed across the filings named in the section they appear in.

Read the filing on SEC EDGAR ↗

DocumentForm 11-K annual report
Filed withUS Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)
Filed byFMC CORP
SEC CIK37785
Accession number0000037785-26-000118
PlanFMC Corporation Savings and Investment Plan
Period of reportDecember 31, 2025
FiledJune 24, 2026

401(k) Monitor is not affiliated with FMC CORP, with the Securities and Exchange Commission or with this plan’s recordkeeper, and publishes this page without their involvement. It republishes a public filing and says where it came from.

Cite this page

401(k) Monitor, “FMC CORP 401(k) plan facts”, from SEC Form 11-K accession 0000037785-26-000118, plan year ended December 31, 2025.