GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan
General Electric Company · Evendale, OH · EIN 140689340 · Plan 334 · Form 5500 for plan year 2024
This is a pooled multiple-employer plan, so its participant and asset totals span many unrelated employers.
What GE Aerospace put into the plan, per active participant
$8,582
General Electric Company (GE Aerospace) put $8,582 into this plan for each of its 29,163 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. This filing covers many unrelated employers under one plan, so the figure is an average across all of them rather than one employer's behaviour.
It is kept out of every peer group and takes no score.
What this figure cannot separate: how much GE Aerospace 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 October 8, 2025 · DOL EFAST2 ↗
The $8,582 above is the Form 5500 figure for plan year 2024, and it counts every employer dollar on one line. General Electric Company (GE Aerospace) also files a Form 11-K, which states the match formula on its own for plan year 2025: the section 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 the plan cost, per participant
$10.15
The plan paid $10.15 per participant in plan-paid administrative expenses in plan year 2024, cheaper than 93% 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
Not scored
This is a pooled plan covering many unrelated employers, so its figures are averages across a client book. It takes no score, and it is kept out of every peer group so that it does not move anybody else's standing.
It keeps whichever of the two it does report, above. Nothing is filled in from an average, from another year or from another plan, because a two-part score computed on one part is a different measure wearing the same name.
What the score would read, on a filing that carries both: 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.
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 GE Aerospace puts in
$1,980
a year, at a $49,500 salary.
The match paragraph, word for word
“The Plan generally provides for employer matching contributions of 50% of employees’ contributions of up to 8% of their earnings, that is, a 4% maximum matching contribution. Certain eligible employees on salaried benefits (whose first day of work is on or after January 1, 2011) and certain eligible employees on production benefits (whose first day of work is on or after January 1, 2012) also receive a Company Retirement Contribution generally equal to 3% of their earnings, irrespective of any employee contributions.”
What you contribute to collect all of it
Contribute at least 8% of your pay to collect the full match.
That is $3,960 a year at a $49,500 salary, and it scales with your own.
Vesting score
57.14 out of 100
How fast the employer’s money becomes yours. Higher than 4% 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: 0%, 0%, 0%, 100%, 100%, 100%, 100%. The score is the average of those 7 readings.
Vesting, word for word
“Participants are fully vested in their employee contributions, employer matching contributions and related investment results. Participants receiving CRCs and related earnings generally become vested in those amounts once the participant completes three years of service. This same three-year vesting requirement applies to employer matching contributions for employees on salaried benefits whose first day of work is on or after January 1, 2018.”
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
7th percentile
$10.15 per participant in plan-paid administrative cost, cheaper than 93% of plans with 5,000+ participants.
The match, vesting and eligibility terms above are read from the Form 11-K filed by General Electric Company (GE Aerospace), whose page states the full formula, the vesting schedule and the sentence behind each one.
What to check next
This filing is not about one employer
One Form 5500 covers many unrelated employers here, so every figure on this page is an average across all of them. The match, the vesting schedule and the fees that apply to one worker are set by that worker’s own employer, and none of the three is stated in this filing.
Collecting the whole match
GE Aerospace’s Form 11-K pays the whole match at 8% of pay, which is $1,980 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 8% 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.
Weighing this employer against another
GE Aerospace’s filed match formula is set against another employer’s, term by term, on 5 pages: Caterpillar, Honeywell, Eaton, John Deere and Cummins.
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
| Total plan assets, end of year | $14,738,724,553 |
|---|---|
| Net assets | $14,736,182,531 |
| Participants, beginning of year | 105,231 |
| Of which active | 29,163 |
| Plan type | Multiple 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 $419,489,549. 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. | 37% |
Plan-paid administrative expenses
The plan paid $1,068,216 in administrative expenses in plan year 2024, across 105,231 participants: $10.15 per participant.
| Contract administrator fees | not reported in filing |
|---|---|
| Professional fees | not reported in filing |
| Investment management fees | not reported in filing |
| Other administrative fees | not reported in filing |
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 Ohio, one of 2,465 plans on file there, at a median of $134.01 per participant. Its business code places the plan in industrial and materials manufacturing, one of 6,008 on file, which run to a median of $142.19.
Plans of a similar size in Ohio
| Plan | Participants | Cost per participant |
|---|---|---|
| Macys Inc. 401(k) Retirement Investment PlanMacys, Inc. | 170,858 | $20.37 |
| The Kroger Co. 401(k) Retirement Savings Account PlanThe Kroger Co. | 160,358 | $20.22 |
| Cintas Partners' PlanCintas Corporation | 70,256 | $56.50 |
| The Progressive 401(k) PlanThe Progressive Corporation & Its Participating Subsidiaries | 69,645 | $9.09 |
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 $97.71 per participant.
| Provider | Service codes | Direct comp. ($) | Indirect comp. ($) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments Institutional | 65, 64 | 1,068,216 | 0 |
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Source
| Dataset | DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 bulk data (FOIA) |
|---|---|
| Form year | 2024 |
| Filing ACK_ID | 20251008140904NAL0003067747001 |
| Dataset last refreshed | July 28, 2026 |
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Cite this page
401(k) Monitor, "GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan: Form 5500 facts", from DOL EFAST2 filing 20251008140904NAL0003067747001, plan year ended December 31, 2024.