Waste Management 401(k) plan

Waste Management, Inc., Houston, TX. EIN 73-1309529. Annual reports 2009–2024.

Waste Management, Inc. has one active retirement plan on file, the Waste Management Retirement Savings Plan, with 47,129 participants and $4.1 billion in assets in 2024. Merrill has been its recordkeeper since 2016. No traditional pension plan appears in Waste Management's filings since 2009.

Active plans: 1
Participants: 47,129
Plan assets: $4.1 billion
401(k) recordkeeper: Merrill
Plans on file: 1
Industry: Business services

The plan

Waste Management Retirement Savings Plan

401(k) with ESOPActive

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

Plan number: 001Employer EIN 73-1309529
Participants (2024): 47,129
Net assets (2024): $4.1 billion
Recordkeeper: MerrillEarlier: Voya (2015)
Plan administrator: Administrative Committee of Waste Management Employee Benefit Plans
800 Capitol Street, Suite 3000
Houston, TX 77002
(713) 512-6200As filed for 2024
In effect since: January 1, 1981

Plans merged into this one: Waste Management Retirement Savings Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees (2015).

Year by year, 2009 to 2024

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2024	47,129	$4.1 billion	Merrill
2023	47,426	$3.7 billion	Merrill
2022	48,185	$3.2 billion	Merrill
2021	46,749	$3.8 billion	Merrill
2020	40,448	$3.3 billion	Merrill
2019	41,379	$2.8 billion	Merrill
2018	40,064	$2.4 billion	Merrill
2017	38,560	$2.4 billion	Merrill
2016	39,009	$2.1 billion	Merrill
2015	43,131	$1.9 billion	Voya
2014	44,243	$2.0 billion	not listed
2013	45,812	$1.9 billion	not listed
2012	45,822	$1.7 billion	not listed
2011	45,755	$1.5 billion	not listed
2010	44,351	$1.5 billion	not listed
2009	44,323	$1.3 billion	not listed

If you had money in one of these plans

Call Merrill (benefits.ml.com), which runs the Waste Management Retirement 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 ((713) 512-6200). That number was filed for 2024; ask for the benefits or retirement plan office.
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.

The plan

Waste Management Retirement Savings Plan

If you had money in one of these plans

What these numbers are

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