Employee Benefit Plans

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2016

Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [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 June 30,						Six Months Ended June 30,
	2016			2015			2016			2015
Service cost	$	309		$	321		$	618		$	643
Interest cost	499			476			997			952
Expected return on plan assets	(729		)	(797		)	(1,458		)	(1,569		)
Recognized loss	376			360			753			720
Total	$	455		$	360		$	910		$	746

For the six months ended June 30, 2016 and 2015, we contributed $2.0 million and $1.5 million, respectively, to the qualified retirement plan. Currently, we do not anticipate making any additional contributions to this plan during 2016.

Defined Contribution Plans

Compensation expense related to our defined contribution plans was $.9 million and $.8 million for the three months ended June 30, 2016 and 2015, respectively, and $1.8 million and $2.1 million for six months ended June 30, 2016 and 2015, respectively.