Employee Benefit Plans

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2022

Compensation And Retirement Disclosure [Abstract]

Employee Benefit Plans

Note 9 - Employee benefit plans:

The components of net periodic defined benefit pension cost are presented in the table below.

	Three months ended				Nine months ended
	September 30,				September 30,
	2021		2022		2021		2022
	(In millions)
Net periodic pension cost (income):
Service cost	$	3.7	$	2.8	$	11.1	$	8.7
Interest cost		2.2		2.7		6.6		8.3
Expected return on plan assets		(2.9)		(3.1)		(8.9)		(9.2)
Amortization of prior service cost		-		-		.1		-
Recognized actuarial losses		5.0		3.2		15.2		10.0
Total	$	8.0	$	5.6	$	24.1	$	17.8

We expect our 2022 contributions for our pension plans to be approximately $19 million.