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Employee Benefit Plans, Pensions, and Other Retiree Benefits | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 03, 2014
Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract] |
EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN, PENSIONS AND OTHER RETIREE BENEFITS | EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN, PENSIONS AND OTHER RETIREE BENEFITS The Company maintains a 401(k) plan covering substantially all of its employees based in the United States under which all employees at least twenty-one years old are eligible to receive discretionary Company contributions. Discretionary Company contributions are determined by the Board of Directors and may be in the form of cash or the Company’s stock. The Company has generally contributed a match of up to 4% of an employee’s contributed annual eligible compensation. For the fiscal years ended October 3, 2014, September 27, 2013, and September 28, 2012, the Company contributed shares of 0.2 million, 0.3 million, and 0.3 million, respectively, and recognized expense of $6.2 million, $6.2 million, and $6.0 million, respectively. Pre-Merger Defined Benefit Pension: The Company terminated the pre-merger pension benefit plan that was inherited as part of the 2002 merger that created Skyworks covering certain former employees during the fiscal year ended October 3, 2014. The Company transferred the future obligations due under the plan to an independent third party and recognized an immaterial loss during the fiscal year ended October 3, 2014.

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