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Employee Benefit Plans (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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May 31, 2017
Retirement Benefits [Abstract] |
Obligations and Funded Status | Obligations and Funded Status at May 31, 2017
Change in benefit obligation: |  |
Projected benefit obligation, beginning of year |  | $ | — |
Projected benefit obligation acquired in G&K acquisition |  | 84,553 |
Interest cost |  | 562 |
Actuarial loss |  | 2,750 |
Benefits paid |  | (478 | )
Projected benefit obligation, end of year |  | $ | 87,387 |
Change in plan assets: |  |  |
Fair value of plan assets, beginning of year |  | $ | — |
Plan assets acquired in G&K acquisition |  | 57,747 |
Actual return on plan assets |  | 2,127 |
Benefits paid |  | (478 | )
Fair value of plan assets, end of year |  | $ | 59,396 |
Funded status-net amount recognized |  | $ | (27,991 | )
Components of Net Periodic Benefit Cost | Components of Net Periodic Benefit Cost
|  | 2017 (1)
Interest cost |  | $ | 562 |
Expected return on assets |  | (590 | )
Amortization of net loss |  | — |
Net periodic benefit cost |  | $ | (28 | )
(1) Represents the net periodic benefit cost for the period subsequent to the acquisition of G&K on March 21, 2017 through May 31, 2017.
Weighted Average Assumptions Used to Determine Benefit Obligations | The following weighted average assumptions were used to determine benefit obligations for the Pension Plan at May 31, 2017:
Discount rate |  | 3.79 | %
Rate of compensation increase |  | N/A |
The following weighted average assumptions were used to determine net periodic benefit cost for the Pension Plan for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2017:
Discount rate |  | 4.00 | %
Expected return on plan assets |  | 5.40 | %
Rate of compensation increase |  | N/A
Asset allocations in the pension plan | The target asset allocation and actual asset allocation of the Pension Plan at May 31, 2017 are as follows:
|  | Target Asset Allocation |  | Actual Asset Allocation
International equity |  | 8.0 | % |  | 8.3 | %
Large cap equity |  | 26.0 | % |  | 26.3 | %
Small cap equity |  | 5.0 | % |  | 5.3 | %
Absolute return strategy funds |  | 16.0 | % |  | 16.2 | %
Fixed income |  | 45.0 | % |  | 43.6 | %
Long/short equity fund |  | — | % |  | 0.3 | %
Total |  | 100 | % |  | 100 | %
Pension plan investments using the fair value hierarchy | The following table presents the Pension Plan investments as of May 31, 2017 using the fair value hierarchy discussed in Note 1 entitled Significant Accounting Polices:
|  | (Level 1) |  | (Level 2) |  | (Level 3) |  | Total
Cash equivalents |  | $ | 629 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 629 |
U.S. government securities |  | 1,874 |  |  | 3,401 |  |  | — |  |  | 5,275 |
Corporate debt |  | — |  |  | 20,210 |  |  | — |  |  | 20,210 |
Mutual funds |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
U.S. securities |  | 28,353 |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 28,353 |
International securities |  | 4,929 |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 4,929 |
Total |  | $ | 35,785 |  |  | $ | 23,611 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 59,396 |
Benefit Payments Reflecting Expected Future Service | The following Pension Plan benefit payments are expected to be paid:
2018 |  | $ | 2,966 |
2019 |  | 3,110 |
2020 |  | 3,317 |
2021 |  | 3,548 |
2022 |  | 3,686 |
2023 to 2027 |  | 20,423 |

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