NOTE 13 — Benefit Plans

The Company has a qualified 401(k) Savings and Profit Sharing Plan, in which all U.S. employees are able to participate. The Company matches a portion of employee contributions to the savings plan. Company contributions to the savings plan were $80 million, $75 million and $72 million and included in Cost of sales or Operating overhead expense, as applicable, for the years ended May 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016, respectively. The terms of the plan also allow for annual discretionary profit sharing contributions, as determined by the Board of Directors, to the accounts of eligible U.S. employees who work at least 1,000 hours in a year. Profit sharing contributions of $59 million, $68 million and $64 million were made to the plan and included in Cost of sales or Operating overhead expense, as applicable, for the years ended May 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016, respectively.

The Company also has a Long-Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) adopted by the Board of Directors and approved by shareholders in September 1997 and later amended and approved in fiscal 2007 and fiscal 2012. The Company recognized $33 million, $21 million and $85 million of Operating overhead expense related to cash awards under the LTIP during the years ended May 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016, respectively.

The Company allows certain highly compensated employees and non-employee directors of the Company to defer compensation under a nonqualified deferred compensation plan. Deferred compensation plan liabilities were $641 million and $569 million at May 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively, and primarily classified as non-current in Deferred income taxes and other liabilities.

The Company has pension plans in various countries worldwide. The pension plans are only available to local employees and are generally government mandated. The liability related to the unfunded pension liabilities of the plans was $70 million and $107 million at May 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively, and primarily classified as non-current in Deferred income taxes and other liabilities.