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Retirement Plans | 9 Months Ended
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Jan. 31, 2020
Retirement Plans [Abstract] |
Retirement Plans | Note 14 — Retirement Plans The components of net pension expense (income) for our global defined benefit plans were as follows:
|  | Three Months Ended January 31, |  |  | Nine Months Ended January 31, |
|  | 2020 |  |  | 2019 |  |  | 2020 |  |  | 2019 |
Service cost |  | $ | 283 |  |  | $ | 226 |  |  | $ | 1,600 |  |  | $ | 688 |
Interest cost |  |  | 5,919 |  |  |  | 6,103 |  |  |  | 18,103 |  |  |  | 18,484 |
Expected return on plan assets |  |  | (10,217 | ) |  |  | (9,638 | ) |  |  | (30,162 | ) |  |  | (29,260 | )
Net amortization of prior service cost |  |  | (18 | ) |  |  | (24 | ) |  |  | (56 | ) |  |  | (72 | )
Unrecognized net actuarial loss |  |  | 1,623 |  |  |  | 1,429 |  |  |  | 4,804 |  |  |  | 4,337 |
Net pension income |  | $ | (2,410 | ) |  | $ | (1,904 | ) |  | $ | (5,711 | ) |  | $ | (5,823 | )
Employer defined benefit pension plan contributions were $3.8 million and $15.8 million for the three months ended January 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively, and $11.8 million and $22.9 million for the nine months ended January 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively. Included in our defined benefit pension plan contributions for the three and nine months ended January 31, 2019 was a discretionary contribution of $10.0 million to the U.S. Employees' Retirement Plan of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. The expense for employer defined contribution plans was approximately $3.2 million and $2.6 million for the three months ended January 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively, and $10.6 million and $9.9 million for the nine months ended January 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.

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