Employee Benefit Plans

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2015

Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract]

Employee Benefit Plans

Employee Benefit Plans

Defined Benefit Plans

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,
	2015			2014			2015			2014
Service cost	$	320		$	252		$	963		$	756
Interest cost	476			450			1,428			1,350
Expected return on plan assets	(797		)	(740		)	(2,366		)	(2,220		)
Recognized loss	361			96			1,081			288
Total	$	360		$	58		$	1,106		$	174

For the nine months ended September 30, 2015 and 2014, we contributed $1.5 million and $2.1 million, respectively, to the qualified retirement plan. Currently, we do not anticipate making any additional contributions to this plan during 2015.

Defined Contribution Plans

Compensation expense related to our defined contribution plans was $.8 million for both the three months ended September 30, 2015 and 2014, and $2.9 million and $2.5 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2015 and 2014, respectively.