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Employee Benefits | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 30, 2019
Employee Benefits |
Employee Benefits | Note 6 – Employee Benefits Seaboard has a defined benefit pension plan for certain of its domestic salaried and clerical employees. At this time, no contributions are expected to be made to the plan in 2019. 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. Of the total net periodic benefit cost presented in the table below, the service cost component is recorded in either cost of sales or selling, general and administrative expenses depending upon the employee. The other components of net periodic benefit cost are recorded in miscellaneous, net in the condensed consolidated statements of comprehensive income. The net periodic benefit cost for all of these plans was as follows:
|  | Three Months Ended |
|  | March 30, |  | March 31, |
(Millions of dollars) |  | 2019 |  | 2018 |
Components of net periodic benefit cost: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Service cost |  | $ | 2 |  | $ | 3 |
Interest cost |  |  | 3 |  |  | 3 |
Expected return on plan assets |  |  | (2) |  |  | (3) |
Amortization and other |  |  | 1 |  |  | 1 |
Net periodic benefit cost |  | $ | 4 |  | $ | 4 |

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