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Financial Health of Largest U.S. Corporate Pension Plans Surges to Highest Level Since Financial Crisis
Willis Towers Watson Link to more items from this source
Jan. 3, 2022

"[F]or 361 Fortune 1000 companies that sponsor [DB] plans and have a December fiscal year-end date [the] aggregate pension funded status ... is estimated to be 96% at the end of 2021, up sharply from 88% at the end of 2020. That is the highest funded status since 2007, the last year defined benefit plans of the Fortune 1000 were fully funded.... [T]he funding deficit is projected to be $63 billion at the end of 2021, significantly less than the $232 billion deficit at the end of 2020. Pension obligations decreased 8% from $1.89 trillion at the end of 2020 to an estimated $1.74 trillion at the end of 2021."

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