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Employee Benefits | 3 Months Ended
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Apr. 02, 2016
Employee Benefits |
Employee Benefits | Note 6 – Employee Benefits Seaboard maintains two defined benefit pension plans for its domestic salaried and clerical employees. At this time, no contributions are expected to be made to these plans in 2016. Seaboard also sponsors non-qualified, unfunded supplemental executive plans, and has certain individual, non-qualified, unfunded supplemental retirement agreements for certain retired employees. Management has no plans to provide funding for these supplemental plans in advance of when the benefits are paid. The net periodic benefit cost for all of these plans was as follows:
|  | Three Months Ended |
|  | April 2, |  | April 4, |
(Millions of dollars) |  | 2016 |  | 2015 |
Components of net periodic benefit cost: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Service cost |  | $ | 2 |  | $ | 2 |
Interest cost |  |  | 3 |  |  | 3 |
Expected return on plan assets |  |  | (2) |  |  | (2) |
Amortization and other |  |  | 1 |  |  | 1 |
Net periodic benefit cost |  | $ | 4 |  | $ | 4 |

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