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Incentive and Deferred Compensation Plans (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2024
Compensation Related Costs [Abstract] |
Schedule of Deferred Executive Compensation Liability | The following table sets forth a reconciliation of beginning and ending balances of our deferred executive compensation liability as of December 31:
(in thousands) |  |
|  | 2024 |  | 2023 |  | 2022
Deferred executive compensation, beginning of the year |  | $ | 31,918 |  |  | $ | 25,760 |  |  | $ | 27,208 |
Annual incentive plan awards |  | 8,574 |  |  | 7,401 |  |  | 6,305 |
Long-term incentive plan awards |  | 1,786 |  |  | 7,332 |  |  | 3,417 |
Employer match and hypothetical earnings on deferred compensation |  | 4,680 |  |  | 2,828 |  |  | 404 |
Total plan awards and earnings |  | 15,040 |  |  | 17,561 |  |  | 10,126 |
Total plan awards paid |  | (8,105) |  |  | (10,211) |  |  | (10,413) |
Compensation deferred |  | 1,701 |  |  | 1,809 |  |  | 2,528 |
Distributions from the deferred compensation plans |  | (2,372) |  |  | (313) |  |  | (742) |
Forfeitures (1) |  | (244) |  |  | — |  |  | — |
Funding of rabbi trust for deferred stock compensation plan for outside directors |  | (1,640) |  |  | (1,407) |  |  | (1,221) |
Funding of rabbi trust for incentive compensation deferral plan (2) |  | (1,703) |  |  | (1,281) |  |  | (1,726) |
Deferred executive compensation, end of the year |  | $ | 34,595 |  |  | $ | 31,918 |  |  | $ | 25,760 |
(1) Forfeitures are the result of plan participants who separated from service and are recognized in the year they occur. (2) In 2024, 2023 and 2022, funding includes $1.7 million, $0.9 million and $0.5 million, respectively, representing shares held back to satisfy tax withholding on rabbi trust distributions that reduce funding requirements for performance award deferrals

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