401(k) Monitor

Textron Savings Plan

Textron Inc. · Providence, RI · EIN 050315468 · Plan 030 · Form 5500 for plan year 2024

What Textron put into the plan, per active participant

$5,890

Textron put $5,890 into this plan for each of its 26,117 active participants in plan year 2024. That is the whole employer side, matching money, profit sharing, non-elective and safe-harbor contributions and reallocated forfeitures together, because the Form 5500 reports them on one line, so it is not the match rate.

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Textron put in more per active participant than 69% of plans with 5,000+ participants in medical devices and other manufacturing. The middle plan in that group of 81 reported $4,432. Medical devices and other manufacturing comes from business code 339900, which Textron 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.

What this figure cannot separate: how much Textron 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: Form 5500 filing for the plan year ended December 31, 2024, received by the DOL July 8, 2025 · DOL EFAST2

The $5,890 above is the Form 5500 figure for plan year 2024, and it counts every employer dollar on one line. Textron also files a Form 11-K, which states the match formula on its own for plan year 2025: the section below reads $2,475 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 the plan cost, per participant

$46.37

The plan paid $46.37 per participant in plan-paid administrative expenses in plan year 2024, cheaper than 59% of plans with 5,000+ participants. The middle plan of that size paid $54.84.

Why a plan this big pays less per person before anything else

Bigger plans pay less per head by construction, because the same negotiated bill divides across more people. That is why this ranking sits inside the plan's own size cohort and is never taken across all plans.

Schedule H reports only what came out of plan assets. Fees the sponsor pays directly, and fees taken inside fund expense ratios, never appear here, so this is a floor and not the all-in cost.

401(k) Monitor Score

66 out of 100

Where this plan stands against plans of its size and industry on two amounts its Form 5500 reports: employer money in per active person, and plan-paid cost per person. It reads no match formula, no vesting schedule and no fund lineup, because a Form 5500 states none of them.

  • What the employer put in, per active participant: $5,890. Higher than 69% of plans with 5,000+ participants in medical devices and other manufacturing.
  • What the plan cost, per participant: $46.37. Cheaper than 59% of plans with 5,000+ participants.

How this score is built

On this page: the match and vesting terms · what to check next · every figure on the filing · fees itemised · the plans this one is ranked against · service providers

The match and vesting terms, from a Form 11-K

The match formula and the vesting schedule are stated in a Form 11-K, which is filed only by employers whose plan holds company stock. A Form 5500 reports neither.

What Textron puts in

$2,475

a year, at a $49,500 salary.

The match paragraph, word for word
Participants’ pre‑tax, after-tax, and Roth contributions, which are matched 50% on the first 10% of contributions to a maximum of 5% of eligible compensation by Textron, subject to certain ERISA restrictions and plan limits, are recorded when Textron makes payroll deductions from participants’ wages. Company matching contributions are made in the form of Textron Stock, deposited into the Textron Stock Fund and then allocated to participants' individual accounts.

What you contribute to collect all of it

Contribute at least 10% of your pay to collect the full match.

That is $4,950 a year at a $49,500 salary, and it scales with your own.

Vesting score

50 out of 100

How fast the employer’s money becomes yours. Higher than 2% 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.

Vesting scheduleGraded, full at 5 years

Share of the employer's money that is the worker's at hire and at each of the first 6 anniversaries: 0%, 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%, 100%. The score is the average of those 7 readings.

Vesting, word for word
Textron’s contributions vest based on the length of service in the Plan, as follows: Months of Service Vested Percentage 24 months but less than 36 months 25% 36 months but less than 48 months 50% 48 months but less than 60 months 75% 60 months or more 100%

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

41st percentile

$46.37 per participant in plan-paid administrative cost, cheaper than 59% of plans with 5,000+ participants.

The match, vesting and eligibility terms above are read from the Form 11-K filed by Textron, whose page states the full formula, the vesting schedule and the sentence behind each one.

What to check next

  • Collecting the whole match

    Textron’s Form 11-K pays the whole match at 10% of pay, which is $2,475 a year at a $49,500 salary and scales with your own. Your payslip and your Fidelity NetBenefits account both show the rate you set. A rate below 10% collects less than the whole match.

    That Form 11-K covers plan year 2025. The plan’s Summary Plan Description states the terms in force, and the plan administrator must provide it to participants on request.

  • Your own numbers are not on this page

    Every figure here is the whole plan for plan year 2024, taken from one filing and divided by headcounts. Your own contribution rate, your balance and the fees taken from your account are on your recordkeeper’s site, which this filing names as Fidelity NetBenefits. What you may put in during a year is set by the IRS and not by the plan: this year’s limits ↗.

Key figures

From Schedule H of Form 5500 filing 20250708132051NAL0004714017001, plan year 2024.
Total plan assets, end of year$6,125,315,140
Net assets$6,125,127,428
Participants, beginning of year36,530
Of which active26,117
Plan typeSingle employer
Size cohortThe peer group we rank fees against.5,000+ participants
Employer share of the money that went in, plan year 2024The rest came from employees, who put in $221,743,937. The share falls when employees save more, so a plan whose staff contribute heavily reads lower here through no act of the employer. It is printed as a fact and it is not part of the score.41%

Plan-paid administrative expenses

The plan paid $1,693,956 in administrative expenses in plan year 2024, across 36,530 participants: $46.37 per participant.

Contract administrator fees$0
Professional feesnot reported in filing
Investment management fees$0
Other administrative fees$-15,001

These are plan-paid expenses from Schedule H only. Fees the sponsor pays directly, and fees embedded in fund expense ratios, never appear here. This figure is a floor, not the all-in cost, and a low number is not “free”.

The plans this one is ranked against

Fees on this page are ranked against the 5,000+ participant cohort, where the median plan pays $54.84 per participant. The sponsor files from Rhode Island, one of 191 plans on file there, at a median of $120.98 per participant. Its business code places the plan in medical devices and other manufacturing, one of 1,455 on file, which run to a median of $125.72.

Plans of a similar size in Rhode Island

The plans nearest this one by participant count, out of 7 in its peer group. Cost per participant is each plan’s own Schedule H figure, and a filing that reported no administrative expenses says so instead of showing a zero.
PlanParticipantsCost per participant
CVS Health Future Fund 401(k) PlanCVS Health Corporation307,068$142.85
UNFI 401(k) PlanUnited Natural Foods, Inc.50,287$27.61
CFG Retirement Savings PlanCitizens Financial Group, Inc.26,647$66.55
Brown Health 401(k) Retirement Savings PlanLifespan Corporation, Dba Brown University Health19,490$42.79

Service providers (Schedule C)

Recordkeeper: Fidelity Investments (as filed: “FIDELITY INVESTMENTS INSTITUTIONAL”)

10,593 plans on file name Fidelity Investments as their recordkeeper, at a median of $97.71 per participant.

Providers from Schedule C, Part 1, Item 2 of filing 20250708132051NAL0004714017001. Direct compensation is paid from plan assets. Amounts in USD.
ProviderService codesDirect comp. ($)Indirect comp. ($)
Fidelity Investments Institutional65, 71, 64, 60, 371,659,7690
Proskauer Rose LLP2988,984not reported
Ernst & Young1067,000not reported
Cem Benchmarking1615,000not reported
Cieba166,495not reported

Source

DatasetDOL EFAST2 Form 5500 bulk data (FOIA)
Form year2024
Filing ACK_ID20250708132051NAL0004714017001
Dataset last refreshedJuly 28, 2026

Bulk dataset at askebsa.dol.gov ↗ · Look up the filing on EFAST2 ↗

Filings lag by design: a plan can file up to 9½ months after its year ends, so this is the newest data on file. Why filings lag

Cite this page

401(k) Monitor, "Textron Savings Plan: Form 5500 facts", from DOL EFAST2 filing 20250708132051NAL0004714017001, plan year ended December 31, 2024. 401(k) Monitor Score 66 out of 100 (exact value 65.83).