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Employer health plan record · Plan year 2024 · Form 5500

Lockheed Martin Corporation

Updated Filing received by DOL

Lockheed Martin Corporation, a manufacturing — metal, equipment, transportation employer in Bethesda, Maryland, reported 112,559 participants in its health and welfare plans for plan year 2024. Its Form 5500 shows $128M in insurance premiums across 112 contracts and $2.8M in broker commissions and fees. The plan is a mix of insured and self-funded coverage. The Department of Labor received the filing on October 9, 2025, within the extension window.

Participants
112,559
+4.7% vs 2023
Premiums filed
$128M
−0.1% vs 2023
Broker commissions + fees
$2.8M
−7.8% vs 2023
Commission rate
n/a
needs insured medical premium

Who was paid on Lockheed Martin Corporation's plan

Schedule A, Part I lists each broker or agent paid on each insurance contract and the amount. Totals below add every contract Lockheed Martin Corporation filed for 2024.

Broker or agentCommissionsFeesTotalContracts
Marsh McLennan Agency · New York, NY$0$1,272,261$1,272,2611
Mercer · Chicago, IL$841,838$6,181$848,01931
Conduent Securities, LLC · New York, NY$288,780$0$288,7805
Conduent Services, LLC · New York, NY$179,057$0$179,0571
Buck · Dallas, TX$173,338$0$173,3382

Source: DOL Form 5500 Schedule A, Part I (broker commissions and fees), plan year 2024, as published in EBSA's 2024 "Latest" dataset. Part I names whoever the carrier paid, which can be a firm or an individual agent; both are public record. Amounts exclude pay from carriers not tied to a listed contract.

Insurance contracts and carriers

The 24 largest of 112 contracts reported on Schedule A: carrier, what it covers, people covered at year end, earned premium, and broker compensation.

Carrier · coverageCoveredPremiumBroker payRate
Prudential Insurance Company of Americalife60,184$78M$1.5M1.9%
Prudential Insurance Company of Americalife91,829$32M$100,9780.3%
Prudential Insurance Company of Americalife42,968$14M$36,1450.3%
Prudential Insurance Company of Americalife3,340$1.2M$3,6730.3%
Prudential Insurance Company of Americalife3,114$1.1M$3,4240.3%
Prudential Insurance Company of Americalife1,200$396,048$1,0100.3%
Prudential Insurance Company of Americalife616$203,216$5180.3%
Prudential Insurance Company of Americalife246$85,703$2710.3%
Prudential Insurance Company of Americalife175$57,850$1470.3%
Aetna Health Inc.HMO16———
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington Options, Inc.HMO36———
Blue Cross of California (g0200)HMO26———
Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthcare Plan of Georgia, Inc. (g0386)HMO980———
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia, Inc. (g0385)PPO45———
Eyemed Vision Carevision75———
Hawaii Medical Service AssociationHMO201———
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan IncHMO1,404—$40,569—
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan IncHMO184———
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of ColoradoHMO1,810———
Life Insurance Company of North Americashort-term disability, long-term disability45,855—$53,492—
Life Insurance Company of North Americashort-term disability, long-term disability779—$1,310—
Life Insurance Company of North Americashort-term disability11—$50,000—
Prudential Insurance Company of Americalife7,506—$6,766—
Prudential Insurance Company of Americalife104,970—$27,450—

Source: DOL Form 5500 Schedule A, plan year 2024. Self-funded medical coverage has no premium; amounts shown for it are stop-loss or administrative contracts.

How Lockheed Martin Corporation compares

Medians across employers for plan year 2024, the most recent complete year. Commission rates use fully insured medical contracts only; dollar medians use every employer that disclosed broker pay.

Broker commissions + fees, dollars
Lockheed Martin Corporation
$2.8M
Commission rate, % of medical premium

Not computable: no insured medical premium on the filing.

Source: BenefitsLedger benchmarks from 58,547 employer health plans with 100 or more participants, plan year 2024. Methodology.

Year over year

$128M$128MPremiums$3.0M$2.8MBroker pay20232024
Lockheed Martin Corporation: premiums and broker commissions + fees, 2023 vs 2024
20232024Change
Participants107,520112,559+4.7%
Premiums filed$127,783,919$127,594,931−0.1%
Broker commissions + fees$2,995,903$2,761,455−7.8%
Commission rate———

Source: DOL Form 5500 filings for plan years 2023 and 2024.

Filings and timeliness

Plans this employer filed under its EIN with a health benefit code. Large plans are due seven months after the plan year ends, or two and a half months later with an extension; amended filings carry the amendment date, so no timing is asserted for them.

PlanPlan year endReceived by DOLTimingParticipants
Lockheed Martin Group Benefits Plan#594 · insurance, general assetsDecember 31, 2024October 9, 2025within extension112,559
Lockheed Martin Corporation Group Insurance Plan for Retired Employees#591 · insurance, general assets, trustDecember 31, 2024October 9, 2025within extension41,114
Lockheed Martin Corporation Group Insurance Plan for Employees of Transferred GE Ops in the Bargaining Unit#512 · insurance, general assetsDecember 31, 2024October 9, 2025within extension4,167
Lockheed Martin Group Insurance Plan for Aerospace Employees#501 · insurance, general assetsDecember 31, 2024October 9, 2025within extension1,594

Source: DOL Form 5500 Part I and signature dates; "late" means received after the extended deadline (the 15th day of the tenth month after plan year end). What a late Form 5500 costs.

How much did Lockheed Martin Corporation pay in health insurance broker commissions in 2024?

Lockheed Martin Corporation's 2024 Form 5500 reports $2,761,455 in broker commissions and fees across 112 insurance contracts ($1,483,013 in commissions, $1,278,442 in fees), with Marsh McLennan Agency receiving the largest share.

Is Lockheed Martin Corporation's health plan self-funded or fully insured?

The 2024 filing indicates the plan is a mix of insured and self-funded coverage.

How does Lockheed Martin Corporation's broker compensation compare with similar employers?

A commission-to-premium ratio cannot be computed for Lockheed Martin Corporation because the filing does not report medical premium on Schedule A (usual for self-funded plans). In dollars, employers with 5,000+ participants that disclosed broker pay reported a median of $458,262.

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Record built October 24, 2026 from U.S. Department of Labor, EBSA Form 5500 datasets (2025, 2024, 2023 plan years, 'Latest' files). Filings can run 7 to 10 months behind the plan year; always confirm against current plan documents. BenefitsLedger is not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Labor. Open the DOL filing search.