Accrued expenses and current portion of other long-term liabilities consist of the following:



	June 29,		September 30,
	2024		2023
Property, payroll and other taxes payable	$	22,754,176	$	25,203,091
Salaries, wages and bonuses payable		44,339,468		50,836,143
Self-insurance liabilities		15,742,025		13,974,358
Interest payable		1,477,964		5,111,666
Other		5,445,422		5,610,526
	$	89,759,055	$	100,735,784

Self-insurance liabilities are established for general liability claims, workers’ compensation and employee group medical and dental benefits based on claims filed and estimates of claims incurred but not reported. The Company is currently insured for covered costs in excess of $1.0 million per occurrence for workers’ compensation and for general liability and $500,000 per covered person for medical care benefits for a policy year. The Company’s self-insurance reserves totaled $34.5 million at June 29, 2024. Of this amount, $15.7 million was accounted for as a current liability and $18.8 million as a long-term liability, which included $4.1 million of expected self-insurance recoveries from excess cost insurance or other sources that were recorded as a receivable. At September 30, 2023, the Company’s self-insurance reserves totaled $32.9 million of which $14.0 million was accounted for as a current liability and $18.9 million as a long-term liability, which included $4.3 million of expected self-insurance recoveries from excess cost insurance or other sources that were recorded as a receivable.

Employee insurance expense, including workers’ compensation and medical care benefits, net of employee contributions, totaled $9.4 million and $8.6 million for the three-month periods ended June 29, 2024 and June 24, 2023, respectively. For the nine-month periods ended June 29, 2024 and June 24, 2023, employee insurance expense, net of employee contributions totaled $31.9 million and $27.5 million, respectively.

The Company’s fuel operations use underground tanks for the storage of gasoline and diesel fuel. The Company reviewed FASB Accounting Standards Codification Topic 410 (“FASB ASC 410”) and determined that we have a legal obligation to remove tanks at various times in the future and accordingly determined that we have met the requirements for an asset retirement obligation. The Company followed the FASB ASC 410 model for determining the asset retirement cost and asset retirement obligation. The amounts recorded were immaterial for each fuel center, as well as in the aggregate at June 29, 2024 and September 30, 2023.