Seattle Times 401(k) and pension plans

Seattle Times Company, Seattle, WA. EIN 91-0403890. Annual reports 2009–2025.

Seattle Times Company has 3 active retirement plans on file. The largest is the 401(k) Savings Plan for Employees of Seattle Times Company and Subsidiaries, with 988 participants and $157 million in assets in 2025. Fidelity has been its recordkeeper since 2009.

Active plans: 3
Participants: 3,780
Plan assets: $339 million
401(k) recordkeeper: Fidelity
Plans on file: 5
Industry: Information and media

All 5 plans

Active plans first

401(k) Savings Plan for Employees of Seattle Times Company and Subsidiaries

401(k)Active

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

Plan number: 005Employer EIN 91-0403890
Participants (2025): 988
Net assets (2025): $157 million
Recordkeeper: Fidelity2009–2025
Plan administrator: Seattle Times Company
P O Box 70
Seattle, WA 98111
(206) 464-2233As filed for 2025
In effect since: October 1, 1980

Plans merged into this one: Savings Plan for Affiliated Employees of Seattle Times Company (2010).

Earlier plan names: Savings Plan for Unaffiliated Employees of Seattle Times Company.

Year by year, 2009 to 2025

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2025	988	$157 million	Fidelity
2024	1,025	$155 million	Fidelity
2023	1,063	$143 million	Fidelity
2022	1,114	$130 million	Fidelity
2021	1,124	$164 million	Fidelity
2020	1,220	$154 million	Fidelity
2019	1,329	$144 million	Fidelity
2018	1,421	$129 million	Fidelity
2017	1,425	$141 million	Fidelity
2016	1,576	$126 million	Fidelity
2015	1,731	$130 million	Fidelity
2014	1,792	$134 million	Fidelity
2013	1,923	$135 million	Fidelity
2012	1,945	$119 million	Fidelity
2011	1,570	$111 million	Fidelity
2010	1,621	$117 million	Fidelity
2009	679	$59.5 million	Fidelity

The Seattle Times Pension Plan

Pension (defined benefit)Active

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2024 plan year.

Plan number: 002Employer EIN 91-0403890
Participants (2024): 1,464
Net assets (2024): $129 million
Plan administrator: Seattle Times Company
1000 Denny Way
Seattle, WA 98109
(206) 464-2002As filed for 2024
In effect since: October 1, 1958

Year by year, 2009 to 2024

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2024	1,464	$129 million	not listed
2023	1,471	$128 million	not listed
2022	1,495	$117 million	not listed
2021	1,510	$117 million	not listed
2020	1,525	$162 million	not listed
2019	1,538	$148 million	not listed
2018	1,542	$153 million	not listed
2017	1,551	$154 million	not listed
2016	1,749	$165 million	not listed
2015	1,868	$161 million	not listed
2014	2,086	$150 million	not listed
2013	2,109	$161 million	not listed
2012	2,127	$146 million	not listed
2011	2,140	$139 million	not listed
2010	2,159	$116 million	not listed
2009	2,196	$124 million	not listed

Amended and Restated Blethen Maine Newspapers, Inc. Pension Plan

Pension (defined benefit)Active

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2024 plan year.

Plan number: 009Employer EIN 91-0403890
Participants (2024): 1,328
Net assets (2024): $53.3 million
Plan administrator: F.A. Blethen
Seattle Times Company, 1000 Denny Way
Seattle, WA 98109
(800) 524-7356As filed for 2024
In effect since: November 2, 1998

Earlier plan names: Amended and Restated Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc. Pension Plan.

Year by year, 2009 to 2024

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2024	1,328	$53.3 million	not listed
2023	1,349	$54.6 million	not listed
2022	1,392	$53.8 million	not listed
2021	1,420	$63.2 million	not listed
2020	1,442	$62.3 million	not listed
2019	1,468	$59.7 million	not listed
2018	1,486	$53.1 million	not listed
2017	1,515	$61.4 million	not listed
2016	1,435	$50.6 million	not listed
2015	1,259	$43.6 million	not listed
2014	1,285	$46.3 million	not listed
2013	1,305	$43.4 million	not listed
2012	1,330	$39.0 million	not listed
2011	1,350	$35.0 million	not listed
2010	1,376	$35.7 million	not listed
2009	1,425	$33.9 million	not listed

Executive Restricted Compansation Plan for F. a. Blethen

Defined contribution planClosed

Closed. The plan filed its final annual report for 2011, which means its assets were paid out or moved and it no longer exists.

Plan number: 010Employer EIN 91-0403890
Participants (2010): 1
Net assets (2010): $216,800
Plan administrator: Plan administrator
P O Box 70
Seattle, WA 98111
(206) 464-2472As filed for 2011
In effect since: February 1, 2010

Year by year, 2010 to 2011

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2011	0	$0	not listed
2010	1	$216,800	not listed

Savings Plan for Affiliated Employees of Seattle Times Company

401(k)Merged

Merged. In 2010 its assets moved to the Savings Plan for Unaffil Emp of Seattle Times Company, sponsored by Seattle Times Company (EIN 91-0403890, plan 005). Accounts moved with them, so that plan is the one to contact.

Plan number: 006Employer EIN 91-0403890
Participants (2009): 911
Net assets (2009): $37.7 million
Recordkeeper: Fidelity2009–2010
Plan administrator: Plan administrator
P O Box 70
Seattle, WA 98111
(206) 464-2319As filed for 2010
In effect since: April 1, 1991

Year by year, 2009 to 2010

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2010	0	$0	Fidelity
2009	911	$37.7 million	Fidelity

If you had money in one of these plans

Call Fidelity (fidelity.com), which runs the 401(k) Savings Plan for Employees of Seattle Times Company and Subsidiaries. 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 ((206) 464-2233). That number was filed for 2025; ask for the benefits or retirement plan office.
If your plan was merged, your account moved with it. Follow the link on the plan to the plan it went into, and contact that one.
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.