Employee Benefits

3 Months Ended

Apr. 02, 2016

Employee Benefits

Employee Benefits

Note 6 – Employee Benefits

Seaboard maintains two defined benefit pension plans for its domestic salaried and clerical employees. At this time, no contributions are expected to be made to these plans in 2016. Seaboard also sponsors non-qualified, unfunded supplemental executive plans, and has certain individual, non-qualified, unfunded supplemental retirement agreements for certain retired employees. Management has no plans to provide funding for these supplemental plans in advance of when the benefits are paid.

The net periodic benefit cost for all of these plans was as follows:

	Three Months Ended
	April 2,		April 4,
(Millions of dollars)	2016		2015
Components of net periodic benefit cost:
Service cost	$	2	$	2
Interest cost		3		3
Expected return on plan assets		(2)		(2)
Amortization and other		1		1
Net periodic benefit cost	$	4	$	4