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Other Retirement Plans
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2018
Multiemployer Plans [Abstract]  
Other Retirement Plans
Note 10Other Retirement Plans
Multiemployer Plans. Certain of MasTec’s subsidiaries, including certain subsidiaries in Canada, contribute amounts to multiemployer pension and other multiemployer benefit plans and trusts (“MEPPs”), which are recorded as a component of employee wages and salaries within costs of revenue, excluding depreciation and amortization. Contributions are generally based on fixed amounts per hour per employee for employees covered under these plans. Multiemployer plan contribution rates are determined annually and assessed on a “pay-as-you-go” basis based on union employee payrolls. Union payrolls cannot be determined for future periods because the number of union employees employed at a given time, and the plans in which they participate, vary depending upon the location and number of ongoing projects and the need for union resources in connection with those projects. Total contributions to multiemployer plans and the related number of employees covered by these plans, including with respect to the Company’s Canadian operations, for the periods indicated were as follows:
 
Multiemployer Plans
 
Covered Employees
 
Contributions (in millions)
 
Low
 
High
 
Pension
 
Other Multiemployer
 
Total
For the Three Months Ended September 30:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2018
6,183

 
6,336

 
$
35.0

 
$
0.9

 
$
35.9

2017
3,669

 
7,057

 
$
36.7

 
$
2.7

 
$
39.4

For the Nine Months Ended September 30:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2018
2,018

 
6,336

 
$
66.0

 
$
5.1

 
$
71.1

2017
550

 
7,057

 
$
68.1

 
$
8.0

 
$
76.1


The fluctuations in the number of employees covered under multiemployer plans and related contributions in the table above related primarily to timing of activity for the Company’s union resource-based projects, the majority of which are within its oil and gas operations.