STOCK AWARD PLANS (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract]

Schedule of Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs

A summary of our total compensation expense recognized in our condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income for stock-based compensation is as follows (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2015		2014
Stock options	$	3,764	$	453
Stock awards	10,679		3,513
Company expense on ESPP discount	893		827
Total stock-based compensation expense	$	15,336	$	4,793

Schedule of Share-based Compensation, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Activity

The following is a summary of the employee stock purchase plan activity (dollar amounts in thousands):

Three Months Ended March 31, 2015
Shares purchased by employees	Aggregate cost to employees		Expense recognized by the company
81,318	$	5,061	$	893