The Boeing Company 401(k) Retirement Plan
The Boeing Co. And Consolidated Subsidiaries · Seattle, WA · EIN 910425694 · Plan 002 · Form 5500 for plan year 2024
What Boeing put into the plan, per active participant
$9,911
The Boeing Company put $9,911 into this plan for each of its 143,146 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.
Boeing put in more per active participant than 94% of plans with 5,000+ participants in aerospace and vehicle manufacturing. The middle plan in that group of 69 reported $4,233. Aerospace and vehicle manufacturing comes from business code 336410, which The Boeing Company 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 Boeing 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 25, 2025 · DOL EFAST2 ↗
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 Boeing puts in
Not stated in the filing
The filing does not disclose a match formula.
Two places state the terms in full: your plan’s Summary Plan Description, which your employer must provide on request, and your recordkeeper’s site, the one you log in to for your balance.
What you contribute to collect all of it
Not stated in the filing
The filing does not state the contribution rate that collects the full employer contribution.
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
“Vesting — Member contributions, Boeing’s contributions, and earnings on those contributions are immediately vested.”
The plan tops the match up after year end, so contributing unevenly through the year does not cost the worker part of it.
The same match paragraph, word for word
“Under the terms of the Plan, Boeing makes employer matching and Company contributions for eligible Members. Catch-up contributions are ineligible for an employer matching contribution for certain Members. During 2025 and 2024, Boeing’s contributions were made in the form of shares of Company common stock and immediately transferred to other investment funds in accordance with Members’ current investment elections. Employer contributions receivables as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, included the following: 2025 2024 Employer matching and Company contributions $ 41 $ — Employer matching true-up contributions 11 29 Student loan matching contributions 6 21”
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 The Boeing Company, whose page states the full formula, the vesting schedule and the sentence behind each one.
What to check next
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 | $73,910,477,714 |
|---|---|
| Net assets | $73,834,695,477 |
| Participants, beginning of year | 216,698 |
| Of which active | 143,146 |
| 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 $1,882,831,706. 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. | 43% |
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 Washington, one of 1,267 plans on file there, at a median of $128.90 per participant. Its business code places the plan in aerospace and vehicle manufacturing, one of 934 on file, which run to a median of $112.59.
Plans of a similar size in Washington
| Plan | Participants | Cost per participant |
|---|---|---|
| Starbucks Corporation 401(k) PlanStarbucks Corporation | 307,988 | $11.75 |
| Costco 401(k) Retirement PlanCostco Wholesale Corporation | 255,370 | $23.38 |
| Microsoft Corporation Savings Plus 401(k) PlanMicrosoft Corporation | 177,531 | $181.82 |
| 401(k) Savings PlanProvidence Health & Services | 109,907 | $58.59 |
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.
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Source
| Dataset | DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 bulk data (FOIA) |
|---|---|
| Form year | 2024 |
| Filing ACK_ID | 20250725165111NAL0006865489001 |
| Dataset last refreshed | July 28, 2026 |
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Cite this page
401(k) Monitor, "The Boeing Company 401(k) Retirement Plan: Form 5500 facts", from DOL EFAST2 filing 20250725165111NAL0006865489001, plan year ended December 31, 2024.