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PBGC Updates 2018 Pension Insurance Data Tables

Government Affairs

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has updated its Pension Insurance Data Tables by providing the third installment of 2018 data concerning its Single-Employer and Multiemployer Programs and the private defined benefit pension system. 

Highlights of information from this installment include:

Single Employer Program

  • Number of insured plans: 23,371 
  • Highest number of insured plans are from those with:

1. Fewer than 25 employees
2. 25-99 employees
3. 250-999 employees; together, these groups comprise 81% of insured plans
 

  • Number of participants in insured plans: 26,215,000; 68% of the participants are in plans with 10,000 or more participants
  • Premium revenue: $5,518,000,000

Multiemployer Program

  • Number of insured plans: 1,373 
  • Highest number of insured plans are from those with:

1. 1,000-2,499 employees
2. 500-999 employees
3. 2,500-4,999 employees; together, these groups comprise 58% of insured plans

Number of participants in insured plans: 10,633,000; 78% of the participants are in plans with 10,000 or more participants
Premium revenue: $292,000,000

The collection of current and prior years’ PBGC Data Tables is available here