Employee Benefit Plans - Additional Information (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2017	Mar. 31, 2016
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Employee deferrals deemed vested percentage upon contribution	100.00%
Company's contributions to the plan	$ 700	$ 500
Company's expected contributions to the plan	$ 12
Maximum
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Deferral percentage of base salary (up to)	80.00%
Deferral percentage of other compensation (up to)	100.00%

Employee deferrals vested percentage.

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Non qualified deferred compensation plan eligible participants deferral percentage of base salary.

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Non qualified deferred compensation plan eligible participants deferral percentage of other compensation.

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Amount of contributions made by the employer to defined benefit plans.

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The amount of contributions made by plan participants. This item represents a periodic increase to the plan obligation and an increase to plan assets.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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