Employee Benefit Plans

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2018

Retirement Benefits [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 March 31,
	2018			2017
Service cost	$	333		$	343
Interest cost	325			514
Expected return on plan assets	(492		)	(759		)
Amortization of net loss	271			377
Total	$	437		$	475

The components of net periodic benefit cost other than the service cost component are included in Interest and Other Income/Expense in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.

The expected contribution to be paid to the qualified retirement plan during 2018 is approximately $2.0 million. During 2017, we contributed $2.5 million to the qualified retirement plan.

Defined Contribution Plans

Compensation expense related to our defined contribution plans was $.9 million and $1.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively.