Employee Benefit Plans

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Retirement Benefits [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 September 30,						Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2019			2018			2019			2018
Service cost	$	246		$	319		$	843		$	976
Interest cost	499			666			1,538			1,505
Expected return on plan assets	(776		)	(1,192		)	(2,514		)	(2,605		)
Amortization of net loss	305			325			892			903
Total	$	274		$	118		$	759		$	779

The components of net periodic benefit cost other than the service cost component are included in Interest and Other Income, net in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.

For both the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, we contributed $1.0 million to the qualified retirement plan. Currently, we do not anticipate making any additional contributions to this plan during 2019.

Defined Contribution Plans

Compensation expense related to our defined contribution plans was $1.0 million and $.9 million for the three months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, and $3.0 million and $2.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.