Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), Debt Structure, Employer Loan, Amount

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Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), Interest And Dividend Payments from ESOP

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Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), Number Of Distributed Shares

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Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), Subscription Price

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Repayments of Debt, Equity Instrument Consideration, Shares Issued

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This item represents the amount of cash contributions during the period made by the entity to the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).

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The amount of plan compensation cost recognized during the period.

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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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The shares or units in an ESOP trust that have been assigned to individual participant accounts based on a known formula. IRS rules require allocations to be nondiscriminatory generally based on compensation, length of service, or a combination of both. For any particular participant such shares or units may be vested, unvested, or partially vested.

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This item represents the number of shares provided to the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) during the period.

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Sum of the allocated, committed-to-be-released and suspense shares of the entity held by the plan.

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Including the current and noncurrent portions, aggregate carrying value as of the balance sheet date of loans payable (with maturities initially due after one year or beyond the operating cycle if longer).

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Employee Benefit Plans - Employee Stock Ownership Plan (Details) - USD ($)		3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 29, 2017	Mar. 31, 2017	Dec. 31, 2018	Dec. 31, 2017	Jun. 23, 2005
Compensation Related Costs, Retirement and Share Based Payment [Line Items]
ESOP compensation expense		$ 1,100,000		$ 1,100,000
Loan receivable from ESOP					$ 19,600,000
ESOP issued price (usd per share)			$ 10
ESOP cash contributions			$ 0	1,100,000
ESOP, dividends and interest received				$ 50,000
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), Shares in ESOP [Abstract]
Allocated to participants (shares)			885,896	1,203,810
Distributed to participants			(885,896)	(317,914)
Total ESOP shares (shares)	78,362		0	885,896
Common Stock [Member]
Compensation Related Costs, Retirement and Share Based Payment [Line Items]
Repayments of Debt, Equity Instrument Consideration, Shares Issued	753,490
ESOP shares purchased (shares)			1,957,300
Share Acquisition Loan [Member]
Compensation Related Costs, Retirement and Share Based Payment [Line Items]
Loans Payable			$ 0	$ 0