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Service provider · Schedule C, plan year 2024
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Most often reported for recordkeeping and administration
Form 5500 information is as filed by the plan administrator with the Department of Labor and may be amended. Figures reflect the plan year shown, not current balances. Schedule C lists only providers a plan paid $5,000 or more, and is filed only by plans with 100 or more participants.
For plan year 2024, 52 retirement plans with 100 or more participants reported paying Metropolitan Life Insurance Company $5,000 or more. Those plans cover 1,343,833 participant records, and the service most often reported is recordkeeping and administration.
Reported compensation from those plans, direct and indirect, totalled $42.0M. Per plan, the median was $15.57 per participant, with the middle half of plans between $2.82 and $83.60. These are amounts plans reported paying this organisation, not a price list: they depend on which services each plan buys and on how much is paid through fund expenses instead.
Its client plans are most numerous in New York (7), New Jersey (7) and Pennsylvania (5).
In 2009 it appeared on 309 such filings; in 2024, 57 (down 82%). Yearly counts include every filing that names it, so they can run slightly above the number of plans with pages here, and name or EIN changes after mergers can break the series.
Reported compensation per plan
| Across this provider's plans | 25th percentile | Median | 75th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation per participant | $2.82 | $15.57 | $83.60 |
| Compensation as a share of plan net assets | 0.00% | 0.02% | 0.07% |
What each plan reported paying this organisation, not the plan's total cost. For reference, the median US defined contribution plan reported $123 per participant to all Schedule C providers combined.
Plans served by year
Matched by employer identification number. A merger or a change of filing entity starts a new series, so a drop to zero is not a loss of clients by itself.
By state
By plan size
Services reported
Largest plans naming this provider
| Plan | Sponsor | State | Participants | Net assets | Reported to this provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lowes 401(k) Plan | Lowe's Companies, Inc. | NC | 295,951 | $8.58B | $116K |
| RTX Consolidated Pension Plan | RTX Corporation | CT | 281,638 | $41.6B | $33K |
| FedEx Corporation Employees' Pension Plan | FedEx Corporation | TN | 213,710 | $26.9B | $0 |
| IBM 401(k) Plan | International Business Machines Corporation | NY | 149,818 | $59.4B | $1.6M |
| Exxonmobil Pension Plan | Exxon Mobil Corporation | TX | 60,890 | $11.2B | $18K |
| Firstenergy Corp. Master Pension Plan | Firstenergy Corp. | OH | 38,934 | $6.35B | $572K |
| Kodak Retirement Income Plan | Eastman Kodak Company | NY | 33,088 | $3.11B | $93K |
| MetLife 401(k) Plan | MetLife Group, Inc. | NJ | 32,414 | $8.31B | $7.6M |
| Sysco Corporation Retirement Plan | Sysco Corporation | TX | 30,257 | $2.47B | $329K |
| Geisinger System Services Tax Sheltered Annuity Program | Geisinger System Services | PA | 27,871 | $1.05B | $77 |
| Montefiore Medical Center 403(b) Plan | Montefiore Medical Center | NY | 25,425 | $4.33B | $3.0M |
| Disney Salaried Pension Plan a | TWDC Enterprises 18 Corp. | CA | 18,186 | $4.20B | $15K |
| Vandalia Health System 401(k) Retirement Savings P | Vandalia Health, Inc. | WV | 14,726 | $853M | $183K |
| Aspirus, Inc. Retirement Plan | Aspirus, Inc. | WI | 13,829 | $893M | $257K |
| MetLife Retirement Plan | MetLife Group, Inc. | NJ | 13,404 | $7.53B | $23.4M |
| Pension Plan for Employees at Ornl | Ut-Battelle, LLC | TN | 12,721 | $2.40B | $266K |
| Vulcan 401(k) Plan | Vulcan Materials Company | AL | 12,568 | $1.47B | $331K |
| Retirement Program Plan for Employees of Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC at the U.S. Department of Energy at Oak Ridge, Tennessee | Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC | TN | 10,673 | $1.97B | $539K |
| Curtiss Wright Corporation Savings & Investment Plan | Curtiss Wright Corporation | NJ | 7,044 | $1.05B | $26K |
| Meba Pension Trust-Defined Benefit Plan | Board of Trustees, Meba Pension Trust-Defined Benefit Plan | MD | 5,626 | $925M | $224K |
| Revised Retirement Plan for Eligible Employees of the New York Stock Exchange & Subsidiary Companies | Nyse Group Inc. | GA | 4,516 | $653M | $14K |
| The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation Retirement Plan | The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation | NJ | 4,064 | $722M | $106K |
| Vandalia Health System 403(b) Plan | Vandalia Health, Inc. | WV | 3,315 | $230M | $53K |
| New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Company Retirement Plan | New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Company | NJ | 3,308 | $764M | $1.3M |
| Ansys, Inc. Employees' Retirement Program | Ansys, Inc. | PA | 3,185 | $945M | $98K |
| Instant Brands Pension Plan | Instant Brands Holdings, Inc. | IL | 2,917 | $97.1M | $42K |
| Aspirus, Inc. Frozen 401(a) Plan | Aspirus, Inc. | WI | 2,684 | $133M | $54K |
| Retirement Programs of NL Industries, Inc. | NL Industries, Inc. | TX | 2,145 | $75.7M | $20K |
| New England Agency Employees' Retirement Plan | New England Life Insurance Company | NC | 1,981 | $126M | $315K |
| IBEW Local Union 269 Annuity Fund | IBEW Local Union 269 Annuity Fund | NJ | 1,922 | $297M | $242K |
| Iron Workers of Western Pennsylvania Profit Sharing Plan | Board of Trustees Iron Workers of Western PA Profit Sharing Plan | PA | 1,906 | $226M | $232K |
| Select Security Retirement Option of Indiana Hospital | Indiana Regional Medical Center | PA | 1,774 | $136M | $3,815 |
| American Bureau of Shipping Pension Plan | American Bureau of Shipping | TX | 1,543 | $426M | $34K |
| California Pacific Medical Center Employee Savings Incentive Deferral Plan (Esip III) | Sutter Bay Hospitals | CA | 1,101 | $67.1M | $30 |
| CMG Hourly 401(k) Plan | Vulcan Materials Company | AL | 893 | $140M | $75K |
| California Pacific Medical Center Voluntary Plan | Sutter Bay Hospitals | CA | 876 | $43.8M | $540 |
| Employees' Retirement Plan of the National Geographic Society | National Geographic Society | DC | 856 | $169M | $509K |
| Retirement Plan for Employees of Cambrex Corporation | Cambrex Corporation | NJ | 839 | $41.1M | $17K |
| Girl Scouts of the USA Retirement Plan | Girl Scouts of the USA | NY | 765 | $80.0M | $12K |
| 92nd Street Y 403(b) Plan | The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Associa | NY | 761 | $30.5M | $0 |
Questions and answers
How many plans does Metropolitan Life Insurance Company serve?
52 plans with 100 or more participants named it on Schedule C for plan year 2024. Plans that paid it under $5,000, small plans that file Form 5500-SF, and plans whose filings spell its name without an EIN under a different form are not counted.
What do plans pay Metropolitan Life Insurance Company?
The median plan reported $15.57 per participant in direct and indirect compensation (49 plans reporting an amount), or 0.02% of plan net assets. Eligible indirect compensation disclosed to the plan by formula is not reported as a dollar amount, so many filings understate what a provider receives.
What services are reported?
The service codes most often attached to it are Investment management (18 plans), Insurance services (11 plans), Contract Administrator (11 plans) and Custodial (other than securities) (3 plans).
Where does this come from?
Schedule C of Form 5500, Part I line 2, from the EBSA research files with filings received through 24 Aug 2026. Individuals named on Schedule C are excluded from this site.
Provenance
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration, Form 5500 research files, Schedule C Part I line 2, public domain, with filings received through 24 Aug 2026. Rows are grouped by the provider's EIN as entered by each plan; rows without an EIN join the EIN most often filed under the same name. Providers named on fewer than 25 plans have no page. See the methodology and corrections.