Employee Benefit Plans

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 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 September 30,						Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2018			2017			2018			2017
Service cost	$	319		$	278		$	976		$	926
Interest cost	666			482			1,505			1,527
Expected return on plan assets	(1,192		)	(760		)	(2,605		)	(2,323		)
Amortization of net loss	325			365			903			1,111
Total	$	118		$	365		$	779		$	1,241

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.

For the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, we contributed $1.0 million and $2.5 million to the qualified retirement plan, respectively. Currently, we do not anticipate making any additional contributions to this plan during 2018.

Defined Contribution Plans

Compensation expense related to our defined contribution plans was $.9 million for both the three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, and $2.8 million and $3.0 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively.