Honeywell 401(k) Plan
Honeywell International Inc. · Charlotte, NC · EIN 222640650 · Plan 302 · Form 5500 for plan year 2024
What Honeywell International put into the plan, per active participant
$5,348
Honeywell International Inc. put $5,348 into this plan for each of its 44,069 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.
Honeywell International put in more per active participant than 65% 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 Honeywell International Inc. 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 Honeywell International 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 30, 2025 · DOL EFAST2 ↗
The $5,348 above is the Form 5500 figure for plan year 2024, and it counts every employer dollar on one line. Honeywell International Inc. also files a Form 11-K, which states the match formula on its own for plan year 2025: the section below reads $3,465 a year at a $49,500 salary. 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
Not ranked
Schedule H reports $0 in plan-paid administrative expenses. That usually means the employer pays the bills directly, or that fees are netted inside fund assets, so the plan is not ranked on cost and $0 is not a cheap plan.
401(k) Monitor Score
Not scored
This filing reports one of the two amounts the score is built from, so it takes none. Schedule H reports $0 in plan-paid administrative expenses. That usually means the employer pays the bills directly, or that fees are netted inside fund assets, so the plan is not ranked on cost and $0 is not a cheap plan.
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 Honeywell International puts in
$3,465
a year, at a $49,500 salary.
The match paragraph, word for word
“Depending on the rate designated for the participant’s Participating Unit, as defined below, the Company makes matching contributions with respect to a participant’s contributions. A Participating Unit is a group of employees which has been designated as participating in the Plan. The Company may contribute on behalf of each participant between 0 percent and 87.5 percent of such participant’s contribution to the Plan, up to 8% of the participant’s base pay, depending upon the rate designated for the participant’s Participating Unit. The Company does not match catch-up contributions. All of the Company’s matching contributions are initially invested in the Honeywell Common Stock Fund. Vested participants may subsequently direct such matching contributions into any investment option available within the Plan. There are two forms of Company matching contributions: (i) variable Company matching contributions and (ii) non-variable Company matching contributions. Participating Units whose employees are covered by collective bargaining agreements or government contracts, the terms of which may change the Company match from time to time, receive variable Company matching contributions, unless the collective bargaining agreement or government contract provides that the employees are eligible for non-variable Company matching contributions. Participating Units whose employees are not covered by collective bargaining agreements or government contracts (unless the collective bargaining agreement or government contract provides otherwise) are generally eligible for non-variable Company matching contributions. Participating Units covered by a non-variable match receive basic matching contributions whereby the Company matches 87.5 percent up to the first 8 percent of base pay that the participant contributes to the Plan (excluding rollover and catch-up contributions). Company match contributions for non-variable match participants and certain variable match participants are made annually in a lump sum by the end of the January following the calendar year-end. These participants must be actively employed on December 15th, or if not, disabled or deceased to receive such match.”
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 have a full and immediate vested interest in the portion of their accounts contributed by them and the earnings on such contributions. A participant will become 100 percent vested in any Company contributions upon completion of three years of vesting service or upon attainment of age 65 while an employee of the Company or an affiliated company. In addition, a participant’s account will become 100 percent vested if the participant’s termination with the Company or an affiliated company was due to any one of the following (i) retirement under the terms of a Honeywell pension plan in which the participant participates; (ii) disability (as defined under the plan provisions); (iii) death; (iv) a reduction in force or layoff (as determined by the Company); or (v) a participant’s business unit is sold or divested (in the Plan Administrator’s sole discretion). A participant will also become 100 percent vested in any Company contributions in the event the Company terminates or permanently discontinues contributions to the Plan.”
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
Not reported
The Form 5500 filing does not report the plan-paid administrative expenses this figure needs.
The match, vesting and eligibility terms above are read from the Form 11-K filed by Honeywell International Inc., whose page states the full formula, the vesting schedule and the sentence behind each one.
Matched to this employer by sponsor name, not by an identifier stated in the filing. That Form 11-K covers Honeywell 401(k) Plan.
What to check next
Collecting the whole match
Honeywell International’s Form 11-K pays the whole match at 8% of pay, which is $3,465 a year at a $49,500 salary and scales with your own. Your payslip and your recordkeeper 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
Honeywell International’s filed match formula is set against another employer’s, term by term, on 5 pages: Caterpillar, General Electric, 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. 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 | $16,316,486,587 |
|---|---|
| Net assets | $16,316,486,587 |
| Participants, beginning of year | 60,090 |
| Of which active | 44,069 |
| Plan type | Single 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 $429,817,989. 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. | 35% |
Plan-paid administrative expenses
Schedule H reports $0 in plan-paid administrative expenses for this year. $0 usually means the employer pays the bills, or fees are netted inside fund assets. It does not mean the plan is 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 North Carolina, one of 1,489 plans on file there, at a median of $118.56 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 North Carolina
| Plan | Participants | Cost per participant |
|---|---|---|
| Truist Financial Corporation 401(k) Savings PlanTruist Financial Corporation | 74,490 | $33.10 |
| Laboratory Corporation Of America Holdings 401(k) Savings PlanLaboratory Corporation Of America Holdings | 64,443 | $54.45 |
| Savings And Supplemental Retirement Plan Of Novant Health, Inc.Novant Health, Inc. | 45,313 | $7.71 |
| Harris Teeter Supermarkets, Inc. Retirement And Savings PlanHarris Teeter Supermarkets, Inc. | 43,184 | $30.77 |
Service providers (Schedule C)
Not reported in filing. Plans with bundled or revenue-sharing arrangements often report no Schedule C provider compensation. Absence here is a reporting artifact, not a $0 cost.
Useful links
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Source
| Dataset | DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 bulk data (FOIA) |
|---|---|
| Form year | 2024 |
| Filing ACK_ID | 20251030221332NAL0003937104001 |
| Dataset last refreshed | July 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, "Honeywell 401(k) Plan: Form 5500 facts", from DOL EFAST2 filing 20251030221332NAL0003937104001, plan year ended December 31, 2024.