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Savings And Deferred Compensation Plans | 12 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2011
Savings And Deferred Compensation Plans |
Savings And Deferred Compensation Plans | 8. Savings and Deferred Compensation Plans Savings Plans We sponsor various defined contribution savings plans which allow participants to make voluntary contributions by salary deduction. Such plans cover substantially all of our domestic, nonunion employees in the U.S. and are qualified under section 401(k) of the United States Internal Revenue Code. Similar plans outside the U.S. cover various groups of employees of our international subsidiaries and affiliates. Several of these plans allow the Company to match, on a voluntary basis, a portion of the employee contributions. The following table presents the Company's contributions to these savings plans during fiscal 2011, 2010, and 2009 (in thousands):
|  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |  |  | 2009 |
Savings plans contributions |  | $ | 61,065 |  |  | $ | 57,346 |  |  | $ | 54,957 |
Deferred Compensation Plans Our Executive Security Plan and Executive Deferral Plans are nonqualified deferred compensation programs that provide benefits payable to directors, officers, and certain key employees or their designated beneficiaries at specified future dates, upon retirement, or death. Benefit payments under both plans are funded by a combination of contributions from participants and the Company, and most of the participants are covered by life insurance policies with the Company designated as the beneficiary. The following table presents the amount charged to expense for the Company's deferred compensation plans during fiscal 2011, 2010, and 2009 (in thousands):
|  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |  |  | 2009 |
Deferred compensation plans expense |  | $ | 3,075 |  |  | $ | 3,631 |  |  | $ | 8,327 |

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