Fair Value Measurements - Beginning and ending amounts of the fair value (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended
Apr. 04, 2023	Mar. 29, 2022
Fair Value Measurements
Payment	$ 7,200
Level 3
Fair Value Measurements
Beginning balance	28,565	$ 23,894
Payment		(7,187)
Change in fair value	719	486
Ending balance	$ 29,284	$ 17,193

Fair value portion of the amount of Acquisition-related contingent consideration and compensation liabilities .

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- Definition

Amount of gain (loss) recognized in income from liability measured at fair value on recurring basis using unobservable input (level 3).

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- Definition

Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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- Definition

Amount of settlements of financial instrument classified as a liability measured using unobservable inputs that reflect the entity's own assumption about the assumptions market participants would use in pricing.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
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-Subparagraph (c)(2)
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