Percentage of salary contribution by employees.

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- Definition

Amount of cost for defined contribution plan.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 715
-SubTopic 70
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=49170846&loc=d3e28014-114942

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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- Definition

Amount of discretionary contributions made by an employer to a defined contribution plan.

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- Definition

Percentage of employees' gross pay for which the employer contributes a matching contribution to a defined contribution plan.

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Percentage employer matches of the employee's percentage contribution matched.

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Defined Contribution Plan (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	1 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
Defined Contribution Plan (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	Dec. 31, 2020	Dec. 31, 2022	Dec. 31, 2021	Dec. 31, 2020
Defined Contribution Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Employer matching contribution, percent of qualified employees' contribution		50.00%	50.00%	50.00%
Employer matching contributions, total		$ 9.3	$ 6.5	$ 1.9
Employer discretionary contributions, total		$ 0.0	$ 0.0
COVID-19 [Member]
Defined Contribution Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Employer discretionary contributions, total	$ 1.2
Minimum [Member]
Defined Contribution Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Employee contribution, percent of salary		1.00%	1.00%	1.00%
Maximum [Member]
Defined Contribution Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Employee contribution, percent of salary		75.00%	75.00%	75.00%
Employer matching contribution, percent of employees' salary		6.00%	6.00%	6.00%