Employee Benefit Plans

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Employee Benefit Plans [Abstract]

Employee Benefit Plans

Note 14. Employee Benefit Plans

We sponsor a noncontributory qualified retirement plan and a separate and independent nonqualified supplemental retirement plan for certain employees. The components of net periodic benefit cost for both plans are as follows (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended
	March 31,
	2012			2011
Service cost	$	898		$	1,142
Interest cost		1,098			1,166
Expected return on plan assets		(1,102	)		(820	)
Prior service cost		(58	)		(49	)
Recognized loss		389			311
Total	$	1,225		$	1,750

Subsequent to March 31, 2012 and 2011, we contributed $2.5 million and $2.2 million, respectively, to the qualified retirement plan. Currently, we do not anticipate making any additional contributions to this plan during 2012.