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Employee Benefit Plans
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2015
Postemployment Benefits [Abstract]  
Employee Benefit Plans
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Employee Benefit Plans

The Company has a 401(k) profit-sharing plan for U.S. employees meeting certain requirements in which eligible employees may contribute between 1% and 50% of their annual compensation to this plan, and, with respect to employees who are age 50 and older, certain specified additional amounts, limited by an annual maximum amount determined by the Internal Revenue Service. The Company, at its discretion, may provide a matching contribution of 50% of each participant’s contributions up to 6% of eligible salary. At the discretion of the board of directors, the Company may also make additional contributions for the benefit of all eligible employees. The Company’s contributions were $2,667, $2,484 and $2,334 for 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively.

The Company has one foreign defined benefit plan which is frozen for Company contributions. The total accrual and projected benefit obligation is not material for this plan.

The Company maintains a bonus plan which provides cash awards to key employees, at the discretion of the compensation committee of the board of directors, based upon operating results and employee performance. In addition, the Company’s foreign locations also have various bonus plans based upon local operating results and employee performance. The total bonus expense was $14,599, $14,434 and $16,006 for 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively.

The Company provides supplemental retirement benefits for one of its current executive officers and a number of former retired executives. The total cost of these benefits was $1,704, $2,258 and $4,988 for 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively. The accumulated benefit obligation was $10,645 and $8,941 at December 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively, which was included in other long-term liabilities.