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



	December 28,		September 28,
	2024		2024
Property, payroll and other taxes payable	$	10,846,961	$	22,592,669
Salaries, wages and bonuses payable		33,062,559		48,869,003
Self-insurance liabilities		16,550,966		16,477,444
Interest payable		1,392,767		4,984,248
Other		6,907,304		6,177,911
Total	$	68,760,557	$	99,101,275

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 $36.7 million at December 28, 2024. Of this amount, $16.6 million was accounted for as a current liability and $20.1 million as a long-term liability, which included $4.0 million of expected self-insurance recoveries from excess cost insurance or other sources that was recorded as a receivable. At September 28, 2024, the Company’s self-insurance reserves totaled $35.9 million, of which $16.5 million was accounted for as a current liability and $19.4 million as a long-term liability, which included $4.1 million of expected self-insurance recoveries from excess cost insurance or other sources that was recorded as a receivable.

Employee insurance expense, including workers’ compensation and medical care benefits, net of employee contributions, totaled $11.2 million and $13.1 million for the three months ended December 28, 2024 and December 30, 2023, 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 December 28, 2024 and September 28, 2024.