Employee Benefit Plans

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2017

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 March 31,
	2017			2016
Service cost	$	343		$	309
Interest cost	514			498
Expected return on plan assets	(759		)	(729		)
Recognized loss	377			377
Total	$	475		$	455

The expected contribution to be paid to the qualified retirement plan during 2017 is approximately $2.0 million. During 2016, we contributed $2.0 million to the qualified retirement plan.

Defined Contribution Plans

Compensation expense related to our defined contribution plans was $1.2 million and $.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively.