On Jan. 1, 1914, the Pullman Company adopted a Pension Plan, which provided for retirement pensions and a system of relief (payments when absent for illness or disability). A Board of Pensions was formed to oversee relief and pension policy and eligibility. Effective Dec. 31, 1955, the company also created a Funded Contributory Retirement Plan to cover all permanent full - time employees not represented by a collective bargaining agent.

Records of the Pullman Company Board of Pensions, 1914-1970, and Funded Contributory Retirement Committee, 1956-1975. Board of Pensions records include a subject index to Board decisions, 1914-1933, and meeting minutes, 1914-1970. Minutes typically record decisions regarding the pension plan and list retirees, individuals to whom annuities are to be paid, deceased employees, early retirees, changes to company age records, and disability-related medical bills. Funded Contributory Retirement Committee minutes, 1956-1975, record policy alterations, authorizations of individual retirements birthdate changes, etc.

Personnel records less than fifty years old open for research with the user’s written assurance that information from the records will be used for statistical or summary purposes only and that no specific names or individually identifiable information will be disclosed.