Employee Benefit Plans

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2016

Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract]

Employee Benefit Plans

Employee Benefit Plans

Defined Benefit Plan

We sponsor a noncontributory qualified retirement plan. The components of net periodic benefit cost for this plan are as follows (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended September 30,						Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2016			2015			2016			2015
Service cost	$	309		$	320		$	927		$	963
Interest cost	499			476			1,496			1,428
Expected return on plan assets	(600		)	(797		)	(2,058		)	(2,366		)
Recognized loss	251			361			1,004			1,081
Total	$	459		$	360		$	1,369		$	1,106

For the nine months ended September 30, 2016 and 2015, we contributed $2.0 million and $1.5 million, respectively, to the qualified retirement plan. Currently, we do not anticipate making any additional contributions to this plan during 2016.

Defined Contribution Plans

Compensation expense related to our defined contribution plans was $.9 million and $.8 million for the three months ended September 30, 2016 and 2015, respectively, and $2.6 million and $2.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 and 2015, respectively.