Employee Benefits (Notes)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Defined Benefit Plan [Abstract]

Employee Benefits

Employee Benefits

We have a defined benefit pension plan that covers certain U.S. employees (the “Domestic Pension Plan”). We also have numerous funded and unfunded plans outside the U.S. The Interpublic Limited Pension Plan in the U.K. is a defined benefit plan and is our most material foreign pension plan in terms of the benefit obligation and plan assets. Some of our domestic and foreign subsidiaries provide postretirement health benefits and life insurance to eligible employees and, in certain cases, their dependents. The domestic postretirement benefit plan is our most material postretirement benefit plan in terms of the benefit obligation. Certain immaterial foreign pension and postretirement benefit plans have been excluded from the table below.

The components of net periodic cost for the Domestic Pension Plan, the significant foreign pension plans and the domestic postretirement benefit plan are listed below.

	Domestic Pension Plan						Foreign Pension Plans						Domestic Postretirement Benefit Plan
Three months ended September 30,	2019			2018			2019			2018			2019		2018
Service cost	$	0.0		$	0.0		$	1.2		$	1.1		$	0.0	$	0.0
Interest cost	1.2			1.2			3.0			3.1			0.3		0.3
Expected return on plan assets	(1.5		)	(1.7		)	(4.2		)	(4.5		)	0.0		0.0
Settlements and curtailments	0.0			0.0			0.0			0.1			0.0		0.0
Amortization of:
Prior service cost (credit)	0.0			0.0			0.0			0.0			0.0		0.0
Unrecognized actuarial losses	0.5			0.4			1.2			1.4			0.0		0.0
Net periodic cost	$	0.2		$	(0.1	)	$	1.2		$	1.2		$	0.3	$	0.3

	Domestic Pension Plan						Foreign Pension Plans						Domestic Postretirement Benefit Plan
Nine months ended September 30,	2019			2018			2019			2018			2019			2018
Service cost	$	0.0		$	0.0		$	3.5		$	3.1		$	0.0		$	0.0
Interest cost	3.6			3.4			9.3			9.9			0.9			0.8
Expected return on plan assets	(4.4		)	(5.0		)	(13.0		)	(14.2		)	0.0			0.0
Settlements and curtailments	0.0			0.0			0.0			0.3			0.0			0.0
Amortization of:
Prior service cost (credit)	0.0			0.0			0.1			0.1			(0.1		)	(0.1		)
Unrecognized actuarial losses	1.4			1.2			3.6			4.4			0.0			0.1
Net periodic cost	$	0.6		$	(0.4	)	$	3.5		$	3.6		$	0.8		$	0.8

The components of net periodic cost other than the service cost component are included in the line item “Other expense, net” in the Consolidated Statements of Operations.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2019, we contributed $1.9 and $13.1 of cash to our domestic and foreign pension plans, respectively. For the remainder of 2019, we expect to contribute approximately $1.0 and $4.0 of cash to our domestic and foreign pension plans, respectively.