Tax Receivable Agreement - Additional Information (Details) - Tax Receivable Agreement Liability $ in Millions	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2022 USD ($)
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Federal, state and local income tax rate	26.17%
Additional TRA liability	$ 6
Discount Rate
Financing Receivable, Past Due [Line Items]
Measurement Input	7.6

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Value of input used to measure contingent consideration liability from business combination.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (bbb)(2)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=123874694&loc=d3e19207-110258

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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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