Truist Financial Corporation 401(k) match: 4% max
Truist Financial Corporation 401(k) Savings Plan · TFC · CIK 92230
Maximum employer match, as a share of pay
4%
Truist Financial Corporation matches 100% (dollar-for-dollar) of the first 4% of pay.
From the Form 11-K filed June 25, 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 · what the plan reports to the DOL · how it compares · what to do next
What Truist Financial puts in, and what the plan costs
What Truist Financial put into the plan, per active participant
$5,115
Truist Financial Corporation put $5,115 into this plan for each of its 38,574 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.
Truist Financial put in more per active participant than 55% of plans with 5,000+ participants at banks and lenders. The middle plan in that group of 66 reported $4,881. Banks and lenders comes from business code 522110, which Truist Financial 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 Truist Financial 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 560939887, plan 003 · DOL EFAST2 ↗
The $5,115 above is the Form 5500 figure for plan year 2024, and it counts every employer dollar on one line. Truist Financial Corporation 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 Truist Financial puts in
$1,980
a year, at a $49,500 salary.
The match paragraph, word for word
“The Plan Sponsor will match participant contributions (other than catch-up contributions), subject to certain IRC limitations, using a formula of 100% match on the first 4% deferred in the form of Safe Harbor contributions. In addition, the Plan allows for a discretionary match if approved by the Board of Directors.”
What you contribute to collect all of it
Contribute at least 4% of your pay to collect the full match.
That is $1,980 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 253 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.
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
“Participants are vested immediately in their contributions, employer matching and profit sharing contributions and actual earnings allocated to their account.”
A worker hired today collects no match for 1 year. This is a filed term, and it does not move the score above.
Eligibility, word for word
“Employees are eligible to make salary reduction contributions the first day of the month following employment with the Corporation and are eligible to receive matching contributions after attaining the age of 21 with one year of continuous employment in which they have worked at least 1,000 hours.”
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.
What the plan costs, against plans of its size
26th percentile
$33.10 per participant in plan-paid administrative cost, cheaper than 74% of plans with 5,000+ participants.
What is Truist Financial's 401(k) match formula?
Truist Financial'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 formula | 100% (dollar-for-dollar) of the first 4% of pay |
|---|---|
| Maximum employer match | 4% of compensation |
| Conditions | Catch-up contributions are not matched. The Plan also allows for an additional discretionary match if approved by the Board of Directors. |
| Other employer contribution | Profit sharing contributions (referenced in the vesting provisions; no formula disclosed) |
At a $75,000 salary, contributing 4% ($3,000) earns the full employer match of $3,000 for the year.
What the filing says, word for word
“The Plan Sponsor will match participant contributions (other than catch-up contributions), subject to certain IRC limitations, using a formula of 100% match on the first 4% deferred in the form of Safe Harbor contributions. In addition, the Plan allows for a discretionary match if approved by the Board of Directors.”
Source: Form 11-K filed June 25, 2026, SEC EDGAR, corroborated by the filing's inline-XBRL facts · SEC ↗
What is Truist Financial's 401(k) vesting schedule?
Truist Financial 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 vesting | Immediate: employer match is 100% vested when contributed |
|---|---|
| Your own contributions | Immediate: always 100% yours |
| Other employer contributions | Profit sharing contributions immediately vested |
Vesting, word for word
“Participants are vested immediately in their contributions, employer matching and profit sharing contributions and actual earnings allocated to their account.”
Source: Form 11-K filed June 25, 2026, SEC EDGAR · SEC ↗
Who can join Truist Financial's 401(k), and is enrollment automatic?
Truist Financial's filing does not mention automatic enrollment, which is not the same as the plan having none.
| Plan entry | Salary reduction contributions from the first day of the month following employment |
|---|---|
| Match eligibility | Matching contributions after attaining age 21 with one year of continuous employment in which the employee worked at least 1,000 hours |
| Automatic enrollment | Not mentioned in the filing (not proof of absence) |
Eligibility, word for word
“Employees are eligible to make salary reduction contributions the first day of the month following employment with the Corporation and are eligible to receive matching contributions after attaining the age of 21 with one year of continuous employment in which they have worked at least 1,000 hours.”
Source: Form 11-K filed June 25, 2026, SEC EDGAR · SEC ↗
What does the Truist Financial plan report on Form 5500?
The Truist Financial plan reported $9.2B in assets and 74,490 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.
| Plan named in the DOL record | Truist Financial Corporation 401(k) Savings Plan |
|---|---|
| Total plan assets | $9,231,001,739 |
| Participants | 74,490 |
| Recordkeeper | Fidelity Investments |
| Plan-paid admin cost per participant | $33.10 |
How that cost compares
This plan pays $33.10 per participant. The median across plans at banks and lenders is $152.83, from the 2,143 of 2,264 whose Form 5500 yields a per-participant cost.
The plan reports Fidelity Investments as its recordkeeper, one of 10,593 plans it runs in the data we publish. Of those, the 10,022 with a computable fee have a median plan-paid cost of $97.71 per participant.
How does Truist Financial's 401(k) match compare?
Truist Financial Corporation's maximum 401(k) match of 4% of pay compares with a median of 4.5% across the 181 companies in our data with a computable formula.
Employers worth reading next
Of the six employers below, three file at banks and lenders, two report the same recordkeeper and one vests on the same schedule.
Maximum match 4% of pay. Also at banks and lenders.
Maximum match 4% of pay. Also at banks and lenders.
Maximum match 4% of pay. Also at banks and lenders.
Maximum match 4% of pay. Same recordkeeper, Fidelity Investments.
Maximum match 4.5% of pay. Same recordkeeper, Fidelity Investments.
Maximum match 6% of pay. Vests immediately too, like Truist Financial.
Compare Truist Financial Corporation with any company, side by side
What can you do next?
Check your own balance and contribution rate at Fidelity NetBenefits ↗, the recordkeeper this plan reports.
- Read the Form 11-K on SEC EDGAR ↗
Form 11-K filed June 25, 2026, SEC EDGAR. Every match fact on this page comes from it.
- Changed jobs? Find an old 401(k) ↗
The Department of Labor's Retirement Savings Lost & Found, a free government database.
- This year's IRS contribution limits ↗
The official deferral and catch-up limits every formula operates under.
- Download this data (CSV)
Formula, vesting and source references for this company, one file.
Questions this filing answers
What is Truist Financial Corporation's 401(k) match?
Truist Financial Corporation matches 100% of employee contributions up to 4% of eligible pay (plan year ended December 31, 2025).
When does the Truist Financial Corporation 401(k) match vest?
Immediate: employer match is 100% vested when contributed.
Does Truist Financial Corporation's 401(k) plan have automatic enrollment?
Not mentioned in the filing (not proof of absence).
Cite: 401(k) Monitor, “Truist Financial Corporation 401(k) plan facts”, from SEC Form 11-K accession 0000092230-26-000069, plan year ended 2025-12-31.