Your retirement plan is on the move

Connect with your future

We’re pleased to announce that Southwest Airlines Pilots Retirement Savings Plan is moving from Schwab Retirement Plan Services Company to Empower Retirement effective November 6, 2015.

Empower Retirement is the same organization that currently services your ProfitSharing Plan and any nonqualified plans you are participating in (e.g., Excess Benefit, Top Hat and the 401(a)(17) plan).

This change is designed to give you better ways to access and manage your account and improve your overall retirement planning experience.


As part of the move, we’re introducing these great features:

  • A new online tool that projects your monthly income in retirement.
  • A healthcare estimator to project monthly healthcare costs in retirement.
  • A “How do I compare to others like me?” online tool.
  • Dedicated Empower representatives knowledgeable about all your plans.

Additionally, several fees will be reduced:

  • Administrative fee - From $12.50 to $8.62 per quarter.
  • Loan fee - From $100 to $50 per loan.
  • Schwab Personal Choice Retirement Account® (PCRA) electronic trading fee - From $25 to $15 per mutual fund trade (online equity trades will still be $6.95 per trade).

Together with Empower, we’re committed to supporting your retirement plans.

At Empower Retirement, we’re helping more than seven million people save for retirement. Administering over $400 billion in plan assets, we’re the second largest retirement services company in the United States1. We define success as helping people like you work toward replacing — for life — the income they earned while working.


1 Information based on total number of participant accounts for all retirement businesses of Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company and its subsidiaries on the Empower Retirement recordkeeping system. (Source: PLANSPONSOR, Dec. 31, 2014.) Total participant accounts on this recordkeeping system, as of Dec. 31, 2014, are 7.1 million.



Take note of these key dates for the move.
Check out how your account will transfer.
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