Lincoln Electric 401(k) and pension plans

The Lincoln Electric Company, Cleveland, OH. EIN 34-0359955. Annual reports 2009–2025.

The Lincoln Electric Company has one active retirement plan on file, the The Lincoln Electric Company Employee Savings Plan, with 7,628 participants and $1.3 billion in assets in 2025. Fidelity has been its recordkeeper since 2009.

Active plans: 1
Participants: 7,628
Plan assets: $1.3 billion
401(k) recordkeeper: Fidelity
Plans on file: 2
Industry: Manufacturing

All 2 plans

Active plans first

The Lincoln Electric Company Employee Savings Plan

401(k) with ESOPActive

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2025 plan year.

Plan number: 005Employer EIN 34-0359955
Participants (2025): 7,628
Net assets (2025): $1.3 billion
Recordkeeper: Fidelity2009–2025
Plan administrator: The Lincoln Electric Company
22801 ST. Clair Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44117
(216) 481-8100As filed for 2025
In effect since: January 1, 1994

Year by year, 2009 to 2025

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2025	7,628	$1.3 billion	Fidelity
2024	7,492	$1.1 billion	Fidelity
2023	6,731	$1.0 billion	Fidelity
2022	6,713	$861 million	Fidelity
2021	6,105	$900 million	Fidelity
2020	5,695	$751 million	Fidelity
2019	5,513	$661 million	Fidelity
2018	4,981	$542 million	Fidelity
2017	4,563	$582 million	Fidelity
2016	3,851	$479 million	Fidelity
2015	3,940	$430 million	Fidelity
2014	3,768	$461 million	Fidelity
2013	3,690	$448 million	Fidelity
2012	3,453	$345 million	Fidelity
2011	3,251	$287 million	Fidelity
2010	3,204	$266 million	Fidelity
2009	3,518	$229 million	Fidelity

The Lincoln Electric Company Retirement Annuity Program

Pension (defined benefit), frozenClosedUnion (multiemployer)

Closed. The plan filed its final annual report for 2022, which means its assets were paid out or moved and it no longer exists.

Plan number: 001Employer EIN 34-0359955
Participants (2020): 1,973
Net assets (2020): $625 million
Plan administrator: The Lincoln Electric Company
22801 ST. Clair Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44117
(216) 481-8100As filed for 2022
In effect since: December 28, 1936

Year by year, 2009 to 2022

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2022	0	$0	not listed
2021	0	$72.2 million	not listed
2020	1,973	$625 million	not listed
2019	2,028	$592 million	not listed
2018	1,951	$507 million	not listed
2017	2,018	$566 million	not listed
2016	2,150	$526 million	not listed
2015	2,042	$517 million	not listed
2014	4,003	$966 million	not listed
2013	4,098	$877 million	not listed
2012	4,165	$821 million	not listed
2011	4,786	$737 million	not listed
2010	4,825	$693 million	not listed
2009	4,863	$608 million	not listed

If you had money in one of these plans

Call Fidelity (fidelity.com), which runs the The Lincoln Electric Company Employee Savings Plan. With your Social Security number and the plan name, it can tell you whether you still have a balance and, if not, where it went.
Or call the plan administrator listed on the plan below ((216) 481-8100). That number was filed for 2025; ask for the benefits or retirement plan office.
If your plan closed, unclaimed balances usually went to an IRA in your name, to the PBGC's missing participants program, or to state unclaimed property. Here is how to check each one.
Still stuck? The Department of Labor's benefits advisers help for free: askebsa.dol.gov or 1-866-444-3272. Never pay anyone to find your own money.

What these numbers are

They come from the Form 5500 annual reports each plan files with the Department of Labor, as the plan filed them. A plan year is usually a calendar year.
Participants counts everyone in the plan at year end: current employees, former employees who still have a balance or a pension coming, and retirees or beneficiaries being paid.
The recordkeeper is the service provider whose Schedule C entry says it keeps the plan's records. Small plans do not file Schedule C, so some plans show none.
We cannot see anyone's account. Only the plan or its recordkeeper can tell you your balance.

Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 datasets and PBGC trusteed plans. How we read them.

All 2 plans

The Lincoln Electric Company Employee Savings Plan

The Lincoln Electric Company Retirement Annuity Program

If you had money in one of these plans

What these numbers are

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